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   The man who was found dead this week inside the apartment of Ed   
   Buck, a political activist and donor in Los Angeles, was   
   identified Thursday as Timothy Dean, 55, of West Hollywood. He   
   was described as a fashion consultant who had been friends with   
   Mr. Buck and had played in gay basketball competitions.   
      
   The authorities found Mr. Dean when they responded around 1 a.m.   
   on Monday to a 911 call about a person in a West Hollywood   
   apartment who was unconscious and not breathing.   
      
   Detectives in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department   
   quickly turned their attention to Mr. Buck because they had   
   visited the same residence under similar circumstances in July   
   2017. At that time, they found another man, Gemmel Moore, 26,   
   naked and dead of a drug overdose on a mattress in Mr. Buck’s   
   living room.   
      
   Both Mr. Dean and Mr. Moore were black, which raised suspicions   
   among political activists and critics of Mr. Buck, a 64-year-old   
   white man who has given more than $116,000 to Democratic   
   candidates and groups in the past decade or so. Protesters have   
   gathered outside Mr. Buck’s apartment to demand justice for Mr.   
   Dean and Mr. Moore.   
      
   “He will not stop,” LaTisha Nixon, Mr. Moore’s mother, wrote on   
   Facebook this week. “He will continue to hurt and kill black   
   men. There are 2 people now that have lost their   
   lives..#justice4gemmel”   
      
   A lawyer for Mr. Buck, Seymour I. Amster, said on Thursday that   
   his client and Mr. Dean had been friends for 25 years. He said   
   that Mr. Dean had “ingested some type of substance” before   
   arriving at Mr. Buck’s apartment and that Mr. Buck had tried to   
   resuscitate him.   
      
   The Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office identified Mr.   
   Dean but has not released a cause of death. The sheriff’s   
   department has not named Mr. Buck as a suspect.   
      
   But the authorities said that homicide detectives were among the   
   officials who responded to Mr. Buck’s residence on Monday and   
   that they would open a review of their investigation into the   
   death of Mr. Moore and conduct new interviews. Mr. Buck was not   
   charged in that death.   
      
   Mr. Amster said his client was innocent in both deaths.   
      
   Mark Chambers, a longtime friend of Mr. Dean’s, confirmed that   
   Mr. Dean had been friends with Mr. Buck but also expressed   
   concern that his friend’s character was under attack in the   
   aftermath of his death.   
      
   “I’ve known Tim for 30 years,” Mr. Chambers said in a phone   
   interview Thursday. “He’s not an angel and he’s not a devil. He   
   is in between, just like everybody else.”   
      
   Mr. Chambers said his friend was a fashion stylist who had long   
   worked in retail, including at Bloomingdale’s and most recently   
   at Saks Fifth Avenue. Mr. Dean posted about his job on   
   Instagram, sharing photos of high-end men’s shoes and bags, and   
   asking followers to come shop with him. He also looked the part.   
   “Going to work this morning!” he wrote in October alongside a   
   photo of himself in a slim-fitting suit with a stylish pocket   
   square.   
      
   He had worked to expand his horizons in recent years, according   
   to Mr. Chambers, who said Mr. Dean obtained an associate degree   
   in 2015 and was baptized last year.   
      
   “I’m surviving and thriving in my life right now,” Mr. Dean   
   wrote on Facebook after his baptism. “I will never have   
   everything all figured out at once, but I have enough sorted out   
   now that I can honestly say I’m happy, healthy and centered.”   
      
   Mr. Chambers, who founded the National Gay Basketball   
   Association, said Mr. Dean also spent many years competing in   
   basketball leagues and the Gay Games, an international sporting   
   event modeled after the Olympics, including in last year’s Games   
   in Paris.   
      
   Mr. Dean was a passionate player who loved to make a show of   
   catching a rebound, Mr. Chambers said. “His initials were   
   T.M.D., and it also stood for ‘Too Much Drama,’” he said. “He   
   was the reigning champ of the Most Dramatic Award on the   
   basketball court.”   
      
   Off the court, Mr. Dean was a close friend who helped dress Mr.   
   Chambers and his husband in Armani tuxedos for their wedding.   
   “He did not believe in sending a text — birthday, Christmas — he   
   called you,” Mr. Chambers said. “If he found out you were sick,   
   he didn’t say, ‘What do you need?’ He came to your house and   
      
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