Another loss for Caitlyn Jenner: the body of her best friend was found on a hiking trail

Almost a year after Caitlyn Jenner’s best friend and manager, Sophia Hutchins, was killed in a horrific ATV accident, 76-year-old Jenner is losing another close friend. Writer William Hasley, who also served as her biographer following the close relationship, was found dead on a walking track in Los Angeles last weekend, as reported today (Wednesday) AND! News.

Hasley’s body, 78 years old at the time of his death, was found on June 6 at 7:05 p.m. near Runyon Canyon Park in California. According to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office records, he was pronounced dead at the scene; The fire department in the city said that aerial rescue teams were called to the scene, “went down to the patient” and tried to save his life, without success, as stated in a message published yesterday. But at this stage the cause of death was not announced.

Hasley, a veteran writer and screenwriter who is one of the creators of “The Smurfs,” served as Jenner’s shadow writer in her 1996 motivational book, Finding the Champion Within. But their acquaintance goes back a long way, 12 years before, when he worked on a special network transmitter NBC dedicated to the US Olympic team, where he met Jenner – a former Olympic gold medalist. Since then they became close friends when, over time, she asked him to help her write the book, which presented ten steps to change life – many years before the real change she made, with the gender adjustment procedure.

The death of Hasley, who was previously married to actress Robin Ryker, comes almost a year after Hutchins got into a tragic accident in July of last year, not far from Jenner’s home in Malibu, after she got into a moving car and flew into a ravine. Months after her death, Jenner claimed almost half a million dollars from her best friend’s estate, along with claims about various charges on her credit cards that Hutchins used.

And she will get her money: about three months ago, Hutchins’ estate managers approved paying Jenner the full amount she demanded – $439,095.88.