EXCLUSIVE: Bethenny Frankel’s 49-year-old interior designer is found dead in her $1.3 million New York City apartment in an ‘advanced state of decomposition’ after ‘not being seen for more than a week’

Reality TV star Bethenny Frankel’s interior designer has been found dead in her apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, DailyMail.com has learned.

The body of 49-year-old Brooke Gomez was found in an “advanced state of decomposition” on Sunday evening, sources said. According to sources, she had not been seen for over a week.

A friend asked the building superintendent to check her $1.3 million apartment on Madison Avenue at 94th Street in Carnegie Hill, sources told Dailymail.com.

Following the gruesome discovery, someone in the building called 911 shortly after 10 p.m., prompting police and an ambulance to respond.

An NYPD spokesperson said no foul play is suspected at this time. The medical examiner, reached by DailyMail.com, did not share an immediate cause of death.

During their appearance on the show, the mother-daughter duo renovated Bethenny Frankel’s $5 million NYC penthouse

The designer’s body was found in an “advanced state of decomposition” after she disappeared for over a week

In 2013, Gomez competed on Bravo’s second season of “Bethenny Ever After,” when she and her mother renovated Frankel’s $5 million penthouse in Tribeca, turning the 3,000-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom loft into her dream place.

Gomez has also done projects for Michael J. Fox and Sigourney Weaver, according to her company website.

She showcased some of her projects on social media, while also sharing some of her favorite quotes.

Her last Instagram post, on October 23, was a mural on the side of a building that read: “There is a future version of you who is so proud that you didn’t give up.”

Two days earlier, Gomez posted comments from British author Roald Dahl in which he said, “I think kindness is probably my most important quality in a human being.

“I will put it before anything like courage, bravery, generosity or anything else…Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, in my opinion. If you’re nice, that’s it.’

Gomez initially planned to become a lawyer, but ultimately decided to follow in the footsteps of her mother, renowned decorator Mariette Himes Gomez, according to a 2019 interview with Business of Home, an interior design publication.

“I really loved it,” she said. ‘I liked the contrast between right brain and left brain: drawing up a contract and then doing something creative.’

Gomez appeared with her mother, noted decorator Mariette Himes Gomez (right), on Bravo’s second season of ‘Bethenny Ever After’ in 2013

Gomez designed homes across the United States, including townhouses and apartments in New York and beach houses in the Hamptons

Her latest Instagram post showed a mural on the side of a building that read: ‘There is a future version of you who is so proud that you didn’t give up’

The 49-year-old worked with her mother for almost two decades before founding Brooke Gomez Design in 2019

According to her company website, Gomez worked on projects for other celebrities, including Michael J. Fox and Sigourney Weaver

According to her business biography, Gomez was born in the city to an architect father and interior designer.

She grew up on a series of construction sites with ‘unparalleled design’. Her father even built her a dollhouse, modeled after the brownstone in which she grew up.

Gomez earned a degree in political science from Brown University, but later joined her mother’s company, collaborating with her on several projects and also producing her mother’s first book.

Her designed apartments and townhouses in New York, as well as homes in Connecticut, Chicago, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania and Maryland, and beach houses in the Hamptons, Palm Beach and Turks and Caicos Islands.

She worked with her mother for almost twenty years before starting her own with Brooke Gomez Design in 2019.

“My mother worked hard all her life,” Gomez told Business of Home at the time.

“She started this company a year after I was born and grew it tremendously, but the company has changed so much.

‘I think for both of us it was time for the next phase of our lives, and for her – as someone who has invested her time, energy and talent in this for over forty years – it was time for her to explore other ways. explore. interests.’

Gomez added: “For me now it’s about building my own team, finding new people I want to work with and making this company my own.

“And it’s nice to know that my sweet, talented mother is always just a phone call away.”