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Other reports suggest that Spade’s death is similar to another high-profile suicide - that of fashion designer L’Wren Scott, the longtime girlfriend of Mick Jagger. Law enforcement sources told TMZ that Spade was depressed in the last days of her life because her husband wanted a divorce, and she didn’t want to end the marriage. The couple returned to the fashion world in 2016 when they founded Frances Valentine, which was named partly after their daughter. Kate Spade left the fashion world to focus on her only childįashion mogul Kate Spade found dead in apartment, apparent suicide Kate Spade’s marriage was strained at time of suicide, husband sought divorce, according to reports The brand grew quickly and expanded to include shoes, luggage and other accessories, as well as a home line, stationery, and books. The couple decided to sell the business in 2006 to devote their time to raising Frances. Kate and Andy, the brother of comedian David Spade, started the Kate Spade line of handbags in 1993 before marrying a year later. Contrary to previous reports, TMZ now says he was not in the apartment when Spade’s body was discovered. Other reports suggest that Spade’s marriage was troubled, and that Andy Spade wanted a divorce and had moved out of their Park Avenue apartment. She was definitely worried about what people would say if they found out.” “That seemed to make her more comfortable, and we’d get sooo close to packing her bags, but - in the end, the ‘image’ of her brand (happy-go-lucky Kate Spade) was more important for her to keep up. He assured his wife that he would take care of the business and look after their 13-year-old daughter, Frances Beatrix, known as Bea. Saffor said Spade’s husband and business partner Andy Spade assisted in trying to coax her into treatment. That I could help her fill in any blanks she might have.” “I said we could talk about it all - our childhood, etc. Saffo said Spade was all set to go, especially after Saffo suggested she could check in with her at the treatment facility. “They agreed to fly in and talk with her and take her with them to the treatment center.” “I’d spoken with them on the phone (not telling them exactly who the patient would be),” Saffo said. At one point, Saffo contends, she had come “very close” to getting Spade to agree to check into the same unnamed center where she said Catherine Zeta-Jones underwent successful treatment for bipolar disorder. Saffo said she flew to New York City and Napa several times in the past three or four years in this effort. “She was always a very excitable little girl and I felt all the stress/pressure of her brand (KS) may have flipped the switch where she eventually became full-on manic depressive,” Saffo wrote, using a term that was once used for bipolar disorder. They also enjoyed visits in New York City or New Mexico as Saffo tried to convince her to seek inpatient treatment. “Her statements paint a picture of someone who didn’t know her at all.”īut Saffo makes it sound as though she and her sister weren’t estranged at all, and that they had been in regular phone contact - up to six or seven hours at a time. “The family is disgusted and saddened that at this time of great sorrow, Kate’s sister who has been estranged from the entire family for more than 10 years would choose to surface with unsubstantiated comments,” a source told People magazine. They claim that Saffo had long been estranged from the family.
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Meanwhile, other family members strongly disputed Saffo’s assertion that Spade’s suicide was not “unexpected” or Saffo’s depiction of the fashion icon’s final years. “Sometimes you simply cannot SAVE people from themselves!” Saffo told the Kansas City Star. Saffo told the Star that her sister’s suicide “was not unexpected by me,” explaining how her sister long refused her family’s entreaties to get help, fearing that a hospitalization might harm the image of the “happy-go-lucky” Kate Spade brand. She was found dead Tuesday in the bedroom of her Park Avenue apartment, according to police. Spade appears to have chosen to end her life in a similar manner as Williams. Sister: Kate Spade was fixated on Robin Williams' suicide Close MenuĪfter Williams died, it was learned that he had suffered Lewy body dementia, an aggressive and irreversible brain disorder.