Fashion Designer Kate Spade Found Dead In Apparent Suicide
by AMY HELD
Kate Spade, the designer who built a billion-dollar brand of luxury handbags and accessories, was found dead in her Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan on Tuesday. She was 55. Bebeto Matthews/AP
New York Police Department officials said that police received a call around 10:30 a.m. and that officers found Spade unconscious and unresponsive in the bedroom of her Park Avenue apartment. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
“It was a suicide,” NYPD spokeswoman Arlene Muniz told NPR, without providing further details.
The exact cause of Spade’s death will be determined by a medical examiner.