According to a friend and mentor, the Pennsylvania man suspected of murdering a Brooklyn artist at a luxury wellness retreat in the Hamptons had been in a love relationship with her for years, but she was attempting to distance herself from him.
According to her mentor, the Brooklyn artist who was purportedly slain at a Hamptons spa on Monday was attempting to end a long-term relationship with the Pennsylvania guy who was believed to be her sugar daddy.
“I had a sense that she wanted to get away from him,” said Liz Phillips, a part-time art professor at SUNY Purchase who taught Rosas and employed her as an assistant. Phillips was alluding to Rosas’ desire to remove herself from the man.
Sabina Rosas, 33, was discovered dead inside a room at the Shou Sugi Ban House in Water Mill.
“He came everywhere with her,” she recalled, but she suspected Rosas was getting bored of it.
The suspect, Rosas’ alleged sugar daddy, 56-year-old Thomas Gannon, was discovered dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Pennsylvania home on Wednesday.
Phillips claims Rosas was intimately associated with Gannon for almost four years, during which time he supported some of her endeavors.
Rosas was supposed to pay her a visit in Queens, she recalls, but he never showed up.
“She was beautiful and talented,” she explained. “She really lit up a classroom like no one else.”
Rosas, according to Phillips, is a hardworking and creative artist with a distinct background. “I wish he’d just killed himself and not her,” she told me.
Officials have not revealed how Rosas died, and the inquiry is ongoing.