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Caitlyn Jenner is supporting Sophia Hutchins’ grieving family following the latter’s death at 29.
The 75-year-old Olympian has opened her home to Hutchins’ mother, Amy, as they navigate the aftermath of the tragedy, TMZ reported Tuesday.
According to the outlet, Jenner’s late friend and manager was laid to rest at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Culver City, Calif.
Jenner’s hospitality has allowed Amy to be close to the burial site since Hutchins’ mother lives out of town.
Hutchins died on July 3 in an ATV crash in Malibu, Calif.
She had been driving the vehicle near Jenner’s $3.5 million home when she collided with the bumper of a moving car, TMZ reported at the time.
The impact threw Hutchins and her ATV vehicle off the road and down a 350-foot ravine, police sources told the outlet.
Emergency responders pronounced her dead at the scene. No one else was injured.
Heartbreaking footage of the fatal crash emerged in the wake of Hutchins’ death, showing the ravine where she died and a blue ATV atop an overturned vehicle that had previously crashed.
Jenner broke her silence on her longtime friend’s sudden death on July 4 when she was seen for the first time since the tragedy.
While on a coffee run in Malibu she told the Daily Mail that she was going through “tough times” and didn’t “want to talk.”
The next day, police revealed chilling details about the crash and Hutchins’ final moments.
“It looks like she may have been speeding and rear-ended the other car, the other party, and then that caused her to veer to the right and go off the cliff,” Sergeant Eduardo Saucedo of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told the Daily Mail.
“It doesn’t seem like she was following them. I think she just she came up on them and then hit the car,” Saucedo continued.
“So it looked like she tried to maneuver to go around it, but she was going too fast and just ended up clipping the rear end of that Mazda, causing her to veer off and go off the cliff there.”
Hutchins and Jenner had an extremely close friendship for many years before the former’s death.
The duo met through their mutual hairstylist and makeup artist in 2015, the same year the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” alum came out as transgender.
“He was doing my hair one day and he said, ‘I’m going to a photo shoot right after this and Caitlyn is going to be there and Caitlyn would like to meet you,’” Hutchins recalled on the “Juicy Scoop” podcast in 2020.
Hutchins also noted that they immediately “got really close as friends.”
Hutchins, who was also a transgender woman, appeared in several episodes of Jenner’s former reality show, “I Am Cait.”
In 2017, she began living with Jenner and became her manager.
They made headlines for outings together, but Jenner’s rep insisted to Page Six that the pair was “just friends.” Hutchins always maintained that their relationship was solely platonic as well.
“I would not say we’re dating,” Hutchins said in 2018 on the “Hidden Truth” podcast. “I would say we’re partners. I would not use the word ‘girlfriend.’ I would not say the word ‘dating.’”
“We’re partners in everything we do,” she continued. “We’re inseparable. We’re business partners. We live together. We share a dog. We share family, we share a life together. We’re not going to [label it].”
