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<span style="font-size: 17pt">Prominent French Academic Found Dead in Manhattan Hotel:</span>
Authorities are probing the mysterious death of a leading French academic whose lifeless body was discovered in a midtown hotel room Tuesday.
Richard Descoings, 52, was found dead and nude at around 4 p.m. inside room 723 at The Michelangelo Hotel on West 51st Street, sources said.
A medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
While nothing has been ruled out, there is no evidence of a crime -- no sign of blunt trauma, strangulation or other form of violence, a law enforcement official said.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Prescription pills, alcohol, cigarettes and a condom were found in the room. Descoings' credit cards and some euros were also still there. His computer and iPhone were found on a third-floor landing of the hotel below his seventh-floor window.</span>
One law enforcement official said the room appeared to be in disarray, though some of it may have been caused by EMT workers when they responded to aid Descoings.
Police are trying to locate two men believed to have entered his room overnight.
Descoings is a director at France's prestigious Institute of Political Studies in Paris. He also serves as an adviser to France’s political leaders.
He was in New York to attend a conference at Columbia University but never showed up, an NYPD spokesman said. Colleagues were worried and called the hotel to check on him at around 1 p.m. When staff checked, they thought he was sleeping, according to the spokesman. Police were later called around 4 p.m.
The NYPD investigation into the death of a prominent French citizen comes nearly a year after authorities here investigated sex abuse allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a one-time contender for the French presidency. The charges against Strauss-Kahn were later dropped.
A spokeswoman for the New York City's Medical Examiner’s Office declined comment on the investigation into Descoings' death, saying no information was yet available.
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<span style="font-size: 17pt">Prominent French Academic Found Dead in Manhattan Hotel:</span>
Authorities are probing the mysterious death of a leading French academic whose lifeless body was discovered in a midtown hotel room Tuesday.
Richard Descoings, 52, was found dead and nude at around 4 p.m. inside room 723 at The Michelangelo Hotel on West 51st Street, sources said.
A medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
While nothing has been ruled out, there is no evidence of a crime -- no sign of blunt trauma, strangulation or other form of violence, a law enforcement official said.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Prescription pills, alcohol, cigarettes and a condom were found in the room. Descoings' credit cards and some euros were also still there. His computer and iPhone were found on a third-floor landing of the hotel below his seventh-floor window.</span>
One law enforcement official said the room appeared to be in disarray, though some of it may have been caused by EMT workers when they responded to aid Descoings.
Police are trying to locate two men believed to have entered his room overnight.
Descoings is a director at France's prestigious Institute of Political Studies in Paris. He also serves as an adviser to France’s political leaders.
He was in New York to attend a conference at Columbia University but never showed up, an NYPD spokesman said. Colleagues were worried and called the hotel to check on him at around 1 p.m. When staff checked, they thought he was sleeping, according to the spokesman. Police were later called around 4 p.m.
The NYPD investigation into the death of a prominent French citizen comes nearly a year after authorities here investigated sex abuse allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a one-time contender for the French presidency. The charges against Strauss-Kahn were later dropped.
A spokeswoman for the New York City's Medical Examiner’s Office declined comment on the investigation into Descoings' death, saying no information was yet available.
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