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Music executive David Bolno has been officially cleared as a person of interest in the slaying of an aspiring singer in Miami Beach, police told The Post Thursday.
Bolno, 46, who’s worked with Drake and Post Malone claims he “wasn’t there” when aspiring musician Laura Lozano’s lifeless body was found in the bathtub of his ocean-view suite in Miami Beach, the Daily Mail reported.
The 34-year-old woman was lying face up in the bathroom of his one-bedroom suite in Miami’s deluxe Setai Hotel on March 30, the outlet added.
According to the hotel’s surveillance footage, Bolno left the suite just after 4:30 a.m. on the morning of Lozano’s death.
Nine hours later, her unresponsive body was discovered by hotel staff, with police saying that an “unknown substance” was found in several locations around the suite.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Bolno called Lozano’s death a “terrible tragedy” and admitted that he was hoping to sign the budding musician after he “helped her to make music.”
“It was a terrible tragedy,” he told the outlet. “I had vacated the room in the earlier part of the morning so I wasn’t there when they found her.”
“It was really sad, she was someone I really liked, and she was a good person,” added Bolno, who is a partner at NKSFB, the nation’s largest business management firm, based in California.
Bolno says Lozano had been in his suite because she had been recording music there the night before.
“She’s a client and she was going to sign a record deal with me,” he said. “I helped her make music.”
“I really don’t want to go too deeply into it, honestly it was a terrible tragedy.”
When asked why Lozano had been in his hotel room at such odd hours, Bolno said it was because he “let her stay there” and that “there’s not much more to it.”
“She was found when I’d left,” he said, adding that Lozano’s body “was found much later in the day.”
In a police report, Miami Beach police officers named Bolno as a “person of interest” in Lozano’s death, but the business tycoon claims, “I wasn’t there when she died.”
They later told The Post that he was cleared as person of interest.
It is unclear at this time whether Lozano hailed from Miami.
Bolno claimed he has been in touch with the woman’s family, saying her loved ones are “devastated.”
Bolno, a graduate of Duke University, was recognized as one of Hollywood’s top business managers by the Hollywood Reporter and Variety magazine.
He “advises on business, personal wealth and tax planning matters in the US and abroad” and advises “record companies, recording studios and high net-worth individuals,” according to the firm’s website.
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