NEW YORK - Fashion designer Kate Spade, 55, was found dead in her New York City apartment in an apparent suicide, police said.
Her body was found by her housekeeper and she left a note, CBS New York reported, citing unnamed sources.
Spade was a co-founder of the designer label Kate Spade New York, which she later sold.
The New York Police Department confirmed her death under her birth name, Katherine Noel Brosnahan.
