A Soho building superintendent entered a tenant’s apartment because of a water problem only to find the man’s friend — a Hollywood producer — dead in a chair, police said Wednesday.
The super found Matthew Lamothe, 30, sitting upright and unresponsive on the couch with the sink overflowing around 11 a.m. Monday at 108 Wooster St., cops said. Lamothe was declared dead on the scene.
Cocaine and heroin were found in the unit, cops said. Investigators also found clear envelopes stamped with the word “Supreme,” police sources said. An empty bottle of red wine was also discovered on a coffee table.
A handyman, who declined to provide his name, said the apartment was leased by film financier Tommy Vlahopoulos and that Lamothe would stay there when he was in the city.
Police didn’t believe there was any criminality, but the Medical Examiner’s Office was investigating to determine a cause of death.
Vlahopoulos owns the company Tommy V Productions. Lamothe was running the company’s Los Angeles operations, with Vlahopoulos based out of the company’s New York office, according to the online magazine Deadline Hollywood.