Fashion designer Kate Spade dead at 55 in apparent suicide

Kate Spade.
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Fashion designer Kate Spade was found dead in what appears to be a suicide, police confirmed to The Associated Press.

The New York Daily News reported that a housekeeper found 55-year-old Spade in her Manhattan home around 10:20 a.m. Tuesday. She was found hanging and left a note at the scene, police told AP.

Spade founded her namesake company in 1993 with a line of handbags. It has since expanded to sell clothes, shoes, and other accessories, and has over 140 stores in the U.S. and 175 internationally.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.