Las Vegas: Well-known travel influencer Anunay Sood, whose body was found in a hotel room in Las Vegas, USA, on November 4, may have died of a drug overdose.
This has been reported by LA-based portal 8NewsNow. It has claimed that police officers discovered Sood unresponsive in his hotel room with “narcotics” located near his body.
According to his recent posts, Sood, with more than 1.5 million followers on Instagram, was in the city to attend the Las Vegas Concours 2025 car show.
Sood was a travel influencer, photographer, and entrepreneur widely known for his visually striking travel content. He amassed a significant online following with more than 1.4 million Instagram followers and around 3.8 lakh YouTube subscribers.
He was featured in Forbes India’s Top 100 Digital Stars list for three consecutive years – 2022, 2023, and 2024.
Sood began by documenting his journeys on Instagram before launching his own Dubai-based digital performance and marketing agency.
He travelled to 46 countries over the years and often spoke about his ambition to visit all 195 countries and regions across the world.
According to the portal, a woman staying with Sood told investigators that the group purchased what they believed to be cocaine from a man on the casino floor around 4 am.
She said Sood, along with her and another woman, consumed the substance before falling asleep. When the two women woke roughly an hour later, they found Sood unresponsive.
Police have apparently said they recovered a small bag containing an unidentified white substance and other evidence suggesting the group had snorted the powder.
Sood’s family and friends confirmed his death on Instagram last week, requesting privacy and urging followers not to gather near the family’s residence.
“On November 4, 2025, LVMPD responded to a dead body located in the 3100 block of South Las Vegas Boulevard. Officers assisted the coroner and took a non-criminal/medical report,” the Los Angeles police had told HT.com in a statement earlier.
The Clark County coroner’s office has listed his cause and manner of death as pending, noting that toxicology tests – required to confirm whether substances caused the death – may take several months to complete.
No arrests have been made in connection till Monday, the police said.
