Police are investigating the death of a powerful New York financier who was found dead in his posh Brooklyn apartment in what appears to be a gay sex romp gone awry.
Neil Rodney Smith was the founder and CEO of Infraccess, a Manhattan-based investment firm. His body was discovered inside his luxurious $15 million penthouse apartment on Monday afternoon by a friend who was staying with him.
57-year-old Smith was face up in bed, naked, with a pillow covering his head, and a wet towel stuffed in his mouth. There were no signs of trauma.
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The friend had previously heard Smith having loud sex with a man who he met online around 1:30 a.m. early Monday morning.
“He went online and hooked up with some guy and, whatever they were doing, he died,” a source tells the New York Daily News.
NYPD confirmed Smith met his murderer, who may have been a prostitute, on the Internet. They are currently reviewing Smith’s phone, computer, and tablet for clues as to who the mystery man might be.
“There were text messages exchanged and Facebook stuff where he’s hooking up with this guy,” the NYPD source says.
Surveillance video shows a dude walking into the building about the time Smith’s visitor arrived and then leaving about 50 minutes later.
A spokeswoman for the city Medical Examiner’s Office said an autopsy performed Tuesday was inconclusive.
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jhig
Click bait title, comes off as tacky
ChrisK
Could’ve been natural causes as well. Some get off on asphyxia.
1EqualityUSA
oof. bed, bath, and beyond.
DarkZephyr
C’mon. If it had been a man and a woman, the title would NOT have read “straight sex romp gone awry”.
Danny595
That’s where a hook-up life, a life of long-term promiscuity, leads you. Fifty-seven years old and living all alone, buying bodies on the internet and spending your last moments on Earth with someone who doesn’t give a crap about you. All of his money couldn’t save him.
sfcarlos65
Let’s not sex-shame the deceased.
Danny595
Shame, when properly applied, saves lives and makes society work.
Maybe if someone had introduced him to the concept of shame earlier, he would still be a alive.
ChrisK
The only one’s that should feel shame are you parents.
Bromancer7
The life of a bitter old troll leads to a life of nothing but spouting slut-shaming nonsense in the comment section of websites like Queerty. Sad.
ErikO
That’s horrible that this happened to him and he was murdered, was he into choking or rough sex as a passive bottom/submissive?