Kate Spade Killed Herself 'after Her Husband Demanded A Divorce'

kate spade killed herself ‘after her husband demanded a divorce and moved out’ as her sister says she suffered from manic depression for years and was obsessed with robin williams suicide

kate spade was found dead at the age of 55 in her park avenue apartment on tuesday
the designer left a note telling her daughter, 13, who loved her, that it was not her fault and told the teenager to ‘ask daddy’
a police source said that before her suicide , andy spade had asked his wife to divorce him and moved to a nearby apartment
reta saffo believes his sister suffered from bipolar disorder and planned suicide for a long time
‘she didn’t get adequate care for what I thought was…bipolar disorder,’ he said
spade jumped rose to fame when her line of purses became the ‘it’ bag for women in the late 1990s and early 2000s
she sold her company in 2006 to raise to his daughter, before launching frances valentine in 2015

by chris spargo and hannah parry for dailymail.com and nic white for mailonline

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