An Emmy-winning production designer known for being a hoarder was found dead under a pile of trash at her New York City home.
Evelyn Sakash, 66, was found Tuesday lying on her kitchen floor buried under trash, a police spokesman said.
Sakash was found by her sister, who had hired a cleaning crew to clean the woman’s home in the College Point section of Queens and search for her, police said. The sister and cleaners found Sakash around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, they said.
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Evelyn Sakash’s home in College Point, Queens, New York, on March 31, 2021. (Carla Roman / New York Daily News / TNS / ABACAPRESS.COM)
Sakash was a production designer who had worked on such films as “Mermaids,” released in 1990, and “Still Alice,” in 2014, according to her IMDB page. He won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003 for “Between the Lions.”
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A missing person police report said Sakash was last seen alive on September 30, 2020. The city’s medical examiner’s office will determine the cause of her death.
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