A body with just a shirt tied around its neck and socks on, has washed up near Billy Joel’s home and former Kardashian house in the Hamptons.
The corpse has been identified as Keith Viagas – a 63-year-old Opera director from New York City.
Two kayakers had found him lying face down in the water of Sag Harbor Cove, New York on Monday morning.
A witness told Page Six that “he was nude apart from a black shirt around his neck, black socks or swim booties on.
“It was a ghastly sight to stumble across on a beautiful August summer morning,” the witness added.
Southampton Police Lt Susan C. Ralph said:
“He’s a long-term resident but he was not reported missing because he would commonly go away for a couple of days then return.”
Police do not believe Viagas’ death had been foul play, but a cause of death has not been confirmed as of yet by the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.
Viagas went to Juilliard School for music theory and composition after attending Stony Brook University on Long Island, the Daily Mail reported.
He was the director of artistic planning at The Opera Orchestra Of New York and before that, he worked at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, according to his Facebook page.
Viagas lived in small house overlooking Sag Harbor.
This harbor in the Hamptons is known to house many celebrities such as Richard Gere, Billy Joel, The View’s Joy Behar, and Real Housewives Jill Zarin and Luann de Lesseps, according to the outlet.
Other celebrities have rented out properties on the harbor like Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian and Rihanna.
In a post of the last picture taken of Viagas, his friend, Bryan Downey, wrote:
“From graduating at Juilliard, working in the Lincoln Center with the New York opera.
“I was probably the last person to see him smile and also take his last photograph on Long Beach. RIP Keith Viagas.”
One commenter said: “I’m sure you were a bright light in his last days. I’ll bet the connection really meant something to him to feel seen and appreciated.”