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Mysterious business surrounding the recent death of J. Wallace Tutt, the interior designer behind such projects as Gianni Versace’s South Beach mansion, as well as other projects for Florida-bound celebrities. Tutt passed away in the Bahamas on Saturday “in a grassy area of the island known as ‘The Narrows’,” the same location of his Rock House Hotel. However, neither his business nor the police are talking about what’s happened, leaving people like this writer to speculate that it’s either foul play or something indecent. Will be interesting to see how the story plays out:

Tutt moved to a private retreat near Harbour Island in 2002, where he transformed an old home into a nine-room luxury hotel.

Rock House staff declined to speak to reporters about Tutt’s death, but said the hotel would be closed for a week.

Alvin Smith, a local parliamentarian who is the Bahamian House’s speaker, said he was shocked by Tutt’s death because he “seemed to be young and energetic.”

Update: Recent developments have come out in the case, with the police now ruling out foul play and saying that Tutt passed due to a heart attack. More details, such as memorial information, will be posted on the designer’s site as they are made available. Also, we have now deleted the image used previously in this post, as we were in error for displaying a different Rock House hotel, one not in any way connected to the one owned by Tutt. Finally, this writer used some confusing language about the location of the designer’s death in the previous post and have since revised it in order to present more clear and precise information about the story.

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