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Both Brosnahan and Elyce Arons became close friends with Spade as an 18-year-old at the University of Kansas and later became her business partner in both Kate Spade and Frances Valentine said they had been aware of Spade’s depression and the separation in her marriage.

“It was Katy’s way to be accessible and available to everyone,” he said. Although he acknowledged Spade had been in sporadic contact with Saffo in recent years, the only one of the six siblings to speak to Saffo, he said he was taken aback that Saffo “should surface now with very definitive statements that I think are grossly inaccurate” and attributed the contact between them to Spade’s personality. However, Kate Spade’s older brother, Earl Brosnahan, said Saffo had been estranged from the rest of the family for more than 10 years, to the extent that she had not attended their mother’s funeral in 2010.

Reports in TMZ and the New York Post speculated that it was Andy Spade’s desire to end his marriage that caused his wife’s depression, while Kate Spade’s older sister, Reta Saffo, told The Kansas City Star that Spade’s suicide was “not unexpected” and that her sister had refused to get treatment for her depression because of fear it might damage her brand. According to police sources, the note addressed the couple’s daughter, expressing that she should not feel at fault. “I am appalled that a private message to my daughter has been so heartlessly shared with the media,” Andy Spade said. He also said neither he nor anyone else in the family had been shown the note left by Kate Spade but had read about it in media accounts.

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There was no indication and no warning that she would do this.” She was with her father the night of her mother’s death, and, Spade said of his wife: “We were in touch with her the night before and she sounded happy. According to Andy Spade, they maintained different apartments a few blocks from each other but continued to take vacations together, and their daughter, Frances Beatrix, split her time between them. Andy and Kate Spade, who married 24 years ago and started the brand Kate Spade together in 1993 and the brand Frances Valentine in 2016, had been unofficially separated for just under a year. There were personal demons she was battling,” he said. “There was no indication and no warning that she would do this. He also said that she had been regularly seeing a private doctor and was taking medication for her disease. Andy Spade said that although his wife had suffered from anxiety at points during their relationship and marriage, her serious bouts of depression began only about six years ago, at the age of 49. Kate Spade, with her husband and business partner, built an idea about a handbag into what became a billion dollar brand, marked by an optimism that resonated deeply with many women for almost three decades. Andy Spade was speaking publicly for the first time since her death.

Andy Spade, the husband of designer Kate Spade, who died of what police characterised as suicide this week, said Wednesday that she had suffered from severe depression and acknowledged that they had been living apart for the last 10 months.