Sophia Hutchins, a close friend and manager to Caitlyn Jenner, reportedly died in an ATV accident near Jenner’s Malibu home. She was 29.
TMZ was the first to report the news, citing law enforcement and family sources. PEOPLE has reached out to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Jenner for comment.
Hutchins was pronounced dead on the morning of Wednesday, July 2, in Malibu, Calif., the outlet reports. Hutchins was driving an ATV down the road when she crashed into the bumper of a moving vehicle carrying two passengers. The ATV was forced over the shoulder and fell 350 feet down into a ravine.
Both passengers in the other vehicle were uninjured, per TMZ.
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Hutchins served as CEO and director of the Caitlyn Jenner Foundation. The pair met in 2015 when Jenner announced her transition. They quickly bonded, as Hutchins identified was a transgender woman as well. Hutchins went on to appear in multiple episodes of her E! reality series I Am Cait.
Born April 1, 1996, in Bellevue, Was., Hutchins graduated from Pepperdine University in 2019 with a degree in economics and finance, per Deadline. She also served as founder and CEO of health technology company LUMASOL.
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