Famed interior designer Brooke Gomez's beloved dog survived for over a week alone in her apartment with her owner's remains.

Gomez, 49, reality TV star Bethenny Frankel's designer, was found dead in an 'advanced state of decomposition' Sunday night in her apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Her Brussels Griffon, Edie, was still alive inside.

The dog had apparently survived by feeding on her owner's body, sources tell DailyMail.com 

The Medical Examiner's Office has revealed that the cause of death was 'chronic alcohol use.' 

A close friend of Gomez told DailyMail.com that the dog is healthy and will remain in the building and be adopted by the superintendent's wife.

'The dog is totally fine,' the friend said. 'The super's wife is adopting her. Everyone thought to keep the dog's environment as normal as possible, that this was the right thing to do.'




DailyMail.com can reveal that Brooke Gomez's dog Edie survived for a week inside the $1.3 million Manhattan apartment





The body of interior designer Brooke Gomez, 49, was discovered in her Upper East Side apartment Sunday night





The dog had apparently survived by feeding on her owner's body, sources tell DailyMail.comA close friend to Gomez told DailyMail.com that the dog is healthy and will remain in the building and be adopted by the superintendent's wife

Gomez celebrated her fluffy brown companion on social media, posting pictures and videos of her playing with the dog in her apartment and strolling through the neighborhood. 

One video from last Thanksgiving shows Edie wagging her tail during a 'dance party' as Leon Bridges's Smooth Sailin' plays on the radio.

'Edie and I just want to say we give thanks for you,' Gomez gushed.

In August, Edie is seen on a couch, 'wishing' followers a Happy National Dog Day. The post is signed 'love Edie. PS I shredded this pillow sorry not sorry.'




Gomez, 49, worked with reality TV star Bethenny Frankel to design her home 

Another posting from May 2022 showed the dog on a mattress, as Gomez laughs, 'I'm sorry Edie, are you taking a little nap after your brunch with egg in your face? Are you taking a siesta after you killed all your toys.'

There's a picture of Edie dressed up in a sombrero and poncho for Cinco de Mayo, and video of them walking together near her apartment along Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue, with Edie sporting a pink collar - Gomez's favorite color.

It took more than a week for anyone to report Gomez missing, sources said. 

A friend finally asked the building's superintendent late Sunday to check her apartment on Madison Avenue at 94th Street in Carnegie Hill, sources told DailyMail.com.

The super entered and made the gruesome discovery. The body was found in an 'advanced state of decomposition,' sources told DailyMail.com and the dog was still alive.

Police and an ambulance responded to the 911 call. There were no signs of criminality or foul play, sources told DailyMail.com.

Her company Brooke Gomez Design posted on Instagram, 'We are greatly saddened by the sudden passing of our friend, Brooke Gomez, a light that shined brilliant on everyone who knew her. A gathering of friends to celebrate her life is being planned. Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later day.'




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





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





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





The designer's body was found in an 'advanced state of decomposition' in her $1.3million apartment after she was not heard from for over a week

In 2013, Gomez participated in Bravo's second season of 'Bethenny Ever After,' when she and her mother renovated Frankel's $5million penthouse in Tribeca, turning the 3,400-square foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom loft into her dream pad.

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 quotations.

Her final Instagram post was a mural on the side of a building that read: 'There's a future version of you that is so proud you didn't give up.'

Two days earlier, Gomez posted remarks from British author Roald Dahl stating: 'I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being.

'I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else… Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.'

Gomez initially planned to become a lawyer, but eventually 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 just loved it,' she said. 'I loved the right brain/left brain contrast of creating a contract and then getting to do something creative.'





Gomez would celebrate her fluffy brown companion on social media, posting pictures and videos of her playing with the dog in her apartment and reformas integrales zaragoza strolling through the neighborhood





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



According to her company biography, Gomez was born in the city to an architect father and interior design mother.

She grew up in a series of construction sites with 'unparalleled design.' Her father even built her a dollhouse modeled after the brownstone she was raised in.

Gomez earned a political science degree from Brown University, but later joined her mother's business, collaborating with her on various projects and also producing her mother's first book.

She designed apartments and townhouses in New York, as well as residences in Connecticut, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Maryland, and beach houses in the Hamptons, Palm Beach and Turks and Caicos.

She worked with her mother for nearly two decades before branching out on her own with Brooke Gomez Design in 2019.

'My mom has worked her butt off her entire life,' Gomez told Business of Home at the time.

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

'I think it was time for both of us to have the next phase of our lives, and for her—as someone who invested all her time, energy and talent into this for 40-plus years—it was time for her to explore other interests.'

Gomez added: 'For me, right now it's about building my own team, finding new people that I want to work with and making this firm my own.

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


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