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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Fashion designer Kate Spade, committed suicide after husband sought divorce</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Kate and Andrew Spade married in 1994</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Spade, 55, hanged herself with a scarf inside her home at 850 Park Ave. near East 77th Street on Tuesday morning</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>She left a suicide note to her daughter Frances Beatrix Spade, 13 &#8211; “Bea – I have always loved you. This is not your fault. Ask Daddy!” </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>However, the designer&#8217;s sister Reta Saffo, revealed the fashion icon suffered from years of debilitating depression and refused to get medical help<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Saffo said of her sister &#8220;</strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>I&#8217;d come so VERY close to getting her to go in for treatment, </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>“She was all set to go, but then chickened out by morning”</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>In the end, the ‘image’ of her brand [happy-go-lucky Kate Spade] was more important for her to keep up &#8211; “She was definitely worried about what people would say if they found out” &#8211; Saffo</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="wp-caption-text featured"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-294169" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Kate-SPade-and-her-husband-Andrew-Spade-1.jpg" alt="Kate SPade and her husband Andrew Spade 1" width="750" height="563" />The designer&#8217;s husband Andy [left], reportedly had asked Kate [right], for a divorce ending their 24-year-old marriage, before she took her life on Tuesday<br />
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<div>Kate Spade fell into a deep depression days before hanging herself because her husband Andy, who reportedly, had moved out of their Park Avenue home, sought a divorce, according to a report.Spade was depressed over her business problems and separation from her husband, which was causing her to drink a lot &#8230; this according to cops. She was was alone in her apartment when she tied a scarf around her neck, attached it to her closet door knob and hanged herself in her bedroom.<br />
Andy Spade, separated from Kate for a few months, was living in a nearby building. He was at his apartment when he learned Kate had committed suicide, he told cops.</div>
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<p class="meta">The despondent 55-year-old fashion designer did not want her 24-year marriage to Andrew to end, <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/06/kate-spade-suicide-husband-andy-divorce-depressed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TMZ reported</a>, citing law enforcement sources.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-294204" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Late-Sade-and-Frances-Spade-2.jpg" alt="";Mamma Mia!"; Celebrates It's 5,000th Performance On Broadway - Arrivals &;amp; Curtain Call" width="1333" height="2000" /></p>
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The house keeper found Spade after she <a href="https://konniemoments.com/2018/06/05/american-fashion-designer-kate-spade-is-found-dead-in-her-new-york-apartment-tuesday-morning-of-apparent-suicide/">hanged herself with a scarf </a>inside her home at 850 Park Ave., New York on Tuesday morning, leaving a suicide note to her daughter Frances Beatrix Spade, 13, [seen photo with Kate].<br />
According to TMZ, Andrew and Kate had separated and he was living in a nearby apartment. &#8211; In the suicide note to her daughter, Kate Spade suggested that Andrew would know why she took her life.<br />
“Bea – I have always loved you. This is not your fault. Ask Daddy!” she wrote in the final missive, according to sources and the TMZ report.<br />
Kate Spade’s husband, Andrew, was home when the suicide was discovered, but Frances was at school, sources said.<br />
However for the designer&#8217;s sister Reta Saffo, told the <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article212609069.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kansas City Star</a> that this turn of events had a certain air of inevitability and didn&#8217;t come as a total surprise to her, all things considered.<br />
Saffo revealed that the fashion icon had suffered from years of debilitating depression and refused to get medical help, fearing how that’d look for her “happy-go-lucky” image, the fashion icon’s sister said, according to a report Tuesday.<br />
In the end the combination of stress and untreated mental health issues turned into a fatal cocktail.<br />
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<div class="tracking"><strong>Famous American fashion designer Kate Spade was found dead at the age of 55 in her New York apt, morning of June 5 The designer left a note before taking her own life by</strong> <a title="American fashion designer Kate Spade is found dead in her New York apartment, Tuesday morning, of apparent suicide" href="https://konniemoments.com/2018/06/05/american-fashion-designer-kate-spade-is-found-dead-in-her-new-york-apartment-tuesday-morning-of-apparent-suicide/">[&#8230;]</a></div>
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<p>Born Katherine Brosnahan in her native of Kansas City, Missouri, the fashion designer ultimately <a href="https://konniemoments.com/2018/06/05/american-fashion-designer-kate-spade-is-found-dead-in-her-new-york-apartment-tuesday-morning-of-apparent-suicide/">took her own life inside</a> her Park Avenue apartment leaving a suicide that came as no surprise to sister Reta Saffo.<br />
“I will say this was not unexpected by me,” Saffo wrote in emails to <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article212609069.html">the Kansas City Star </a>newspaper.<br />
“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”<br />
Saffo said that within the past three or four years she tried and tried to get her sister Kate the help she so desperately needed.<br />
“I’d come so VERY close to getting her to go in for treatment, [to the same place Catherine Zeta-Jones went for her successful bipolar treatment program].<br />
I’d spoken with them on the phone [not telling them exactly who the patient would be]. They agreed to fly in and talk with her and take her with them to the treatment center,” Saffo wrote.<br />
“She was all set to go, but then chickened out by morning. I even said I [would] go with her and be a ‘patient’ too [she liked that idea] . . . 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.<br />
“She was definitely worried about what people would say if they found out.”</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-294205" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Andy-Spade-Frances-Spade-and-Kate-Spade-1.jpg" alt="Andy Spade, Frances Spade and Kate Spade 1" width="768" height="384" /><strong>Kate Spade seen with husband Andy and daughter Frances, was caught in the tossup between her health and the stress of maintaining her brand image, according to her sister</strong></h6>
<p>Spade’s husband and business partner, Andy Spade, also played a key role in the efforts to get the fashion icon to get help for her condition, to no avail, according to Saffo.<br />
At some point, the family realized there was only so much that could be done: “After numerous attempts, I finally let go,” Saffo wrote.<br />
“Sometimes you simply cannot SAVE people from themselves!<br />
Saffo said Spade made a dark and simple request – to come to her funeral. &#8211; One of the last things she said to me was, ‘Reta, I know you hate funerals. . . but for me would you PLEASE come to MINE, at least.”</p>
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<p>“She was a dear little person. So dear — so kind, so funny. I’ll miss our 6-7-hr-long phone conversations between NY and NM,” Saffo wrote.</p>
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Spade suicide note explained – designer allegedly committed suicide after husband sought end 24-year marriage! Sister reveals sister also suffered from depression for years
