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re: Designer Kate Spade Found Dead of Apparent Suicide

Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:13 pm to
Posted by el Gaucho
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:13 pm to
We only buy our old ladies micheal coors purses around here baw
Posted by HoustonChick86
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:15 pm to
Posted by LSUWoodworker
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:16 pm to
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Something smells rotten in Denmark.


Posted by CaptainsWafer
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:16 pm to
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We only buy our old ladies micheal coors purses around here baw


Speak for yourself, michael miller lite in my house.
Posted by tigerpawl
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:18 pm to
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Sold her company to Coach last year for 2.4 B dollars.
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She wishes! She sold all of her company back in like 2006 for around 50 million or something like that.

So was she depressed about all the $$ she left on the table? Could that be it?? Was she beating herself up about that??
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:39 pm to
Depression doesn't go away for rich people. I like to joke that if I had a fortune and didn't have to work, there is no way I could ever be depressed, but it just doesn't work like that.
Posted by bawbarn
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:56 pm to
She was an answer on Jeopardy yesterday.
Posted by LSUWoodworker
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 12:58 pm to
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She was an answer on Jeopardy yesterday.



I will take "Who will be soon at room temperature for 400 Alex"
Posted by Jim Smith
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 1:35 pm to
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Sold her company to Coach last year for 2.4 B dollars.



No she didn't. Neiman Marcus Group purchased 56% of the Kate Spade brand in 1999, and acquired the remaining 44% in 2006. The sale was worth about $100M.

The company was then sold to Coach last year, along with a few other companies, in a sale that was worth $2.4B.
Posted by real turf fan
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 2:00 pm to
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Sold her company to Coach last year for 2.4 B dollars.


NOPE. She hadn't owned her named company for eleven years. She had sold it in two parts to Niemans, who sold it to Liz Claiborne.

The big Fashion awards show was last night and she wasn't there and maybe wasn't even invited.
Posted by member12
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 2:06 pm to
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I listened to a podcast about how she started her company (since sold FWIW) and she and her hubby went through some pretty trying times. Was a very interesting hearing how she made it.


Business related? What was their issue?
Posted by BowlJackson
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 2:07 pm to
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She was an answer on Jeopardy yesterday.


Illuminati CONFIRMED
Posted by PearlJam
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 2:09 pm to
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Posted by 9Fiddy
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 2:15 pm to
Saw a story on how she did it. Hanging with scarf tied to doorknob. Still trying to figure out the logistics on this one. Or...like someone said...something smells rotten.
Posted by Jim Rockford
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 3:13 pm to
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Saw a story on how she did it. Hanging with scarf tied to doorknob. Still trying to figure out the logistics on this one. Or...like someone said...something smells rotten.




Possible. Prisoners have "hung" themselves in bed to prevent being seen and interrupted. Put enough pressure to cut off blood circulation and lose consciousness. Gravity does the rest.
Posted by starsandstripes
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 3:21 pm to
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I mean you basically have to have had no interaction with any woman at all for about 20 years to "have no idea who this person is." That amounts to quite an admission.


no
Posted by TDFreak
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 3:50 pm to
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She sold it twelve years ago for 124 million.

Somebody else sold it last year for 2.4 billion.
Is that why she was upset? It appreciated from 0.1 billion to 2.4 billion AFTER she sold.
Posted by whoisnickdoobs
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 3:55 pm to
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I mean you basically have to have had no interaction with any woman at all for about 20 years to "have no idea who this person is." That amounts to quite an admission


thats a bit of an exaggeration.
Posted by MAROON
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 4:18 pm to
the new company she and her husband started was called "Frances Valentine", and she legally changed her name to be Kate Valentine Spade. Now I'm not a psych major but I'm guessing her identity was very wrapped up in her former company (as it probably should be since it was her name), and she was trying to get it back. Maybe the new company was floundering. Not sure, but to me that's not really normal behavior to change your name to that of your new company.
This post was edited on 6/5/18 at 4:21 pm
Posted by Adam4LSU
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Posted on 6/5/18 at 4:22 pm to
I’m thinking someone close to her money made it look like a suicide.
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