Caitlyn Jenner’s longtime good friend and supervisor Sophia Hutchins has died in an ATV crash in Malibu, Calif. She was 29.
Hutchins was driving the automobile close to Jenner’s $3.5 million Malibu rental when she collided with the bumper of a transferring automobile on Wednesday morning, TMZ reported.
The affect threw Hutchins and her ATV automobile off the street and down a 350-foot ravine, police sources advised the outlet.
Emergency responders pronounced her useless on the scene. Nobody else was injured.
It was unclear the place Jenner, 75, was on the time of the deadly crash.
The duo met in 2015 by their hairstylists. On the time, the Olympic gold medalist got here out as transgender, subsequently kickstarting their transition course of.
Hutchins, who was additionally a transgender lady, appeared in a number of episodes of Jenner’s E!’s actuality present, “I Am Cait.”
In 2017, Hutchins moved in with the previous decathlete and have become her supervisor.
Since then, the duo had been inseparable and Hutchins typically joined Jenner at household occasions hosted by the Kardashians.
Their shut friendship sparked a slew of courting rumors, which each Hutchins and Jenner vehemently denied on a number of events.
In 2018, the Pepperdine grad insisted her relationship with Jenner was “by no means romantic.”
“It was by no means romantic. By no means sexual. It was very a lot pals however I perceive why folks perceived it that approach. We by no means addressed it and that was a part of the issue,” Hutchins mentioned on the time. “It’s extra parental. I date guys. And Caitlyn’s like, I gotta log out on him. It’s very parental, very protecting. We’re household. It’s an fascinating household state of affairs. All of my household is.”
“We met by our hairstylists. He was doing my hair someday and was like, ‘I’m going to a photoshoot after this, one thing with Caitlyn and MAC. And Caitlyn wish to meet you,’” Hutchins added of Jenner, who’s 46 years her senior.
And in 2021, Hutchins as soon as once more reaffirmed that she was not romantically concerned with the previous “Maintaining Up with the Kardashians” star.
“There’s no hanky panky,” Hutchins advised Folks. “I really feel like I’ve been saying that for the previous 5 years.”
In 2020, Hutchins solidified her spot within the Kardashian-Jenner clan after she starred in an advert marketing campaign for Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS shapewear model.
“I’m on good phrases with all of the household, however I’m closest with Kris [Jenner], Kim, Kylie and Kendall [Jenner],” Hutchins mentioned in 2019.
Born April 1, 1996 in Bellevue, Wash., Hutchins graduated from Pepperdine College in 2019 with a level in economics and finance.
Throughout her junior 12 months on the prestigious faculty, Hutchins resigned from her submit because the president of the Class of 2018 to finish her gender transition.
Hutchins went forward together with her transition after changing into impressed by Jenner’s popping out story in a “20/20″ interview.
She went on to launch a sunscreen mist firm Lumasol SPF, of which she served as CEO.
Along with being Jenner’s supervisor and enterprise associate, Hutchins beforehand served because the CEO and director of the Caitlyn Jenner Basis, a corporation serving to LGBTQ folks.
