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Kate Spade, Fashion Designer, Found Dead In Apparent Suicide
A housekeeper found Spade in the bedroom of her Upper East Side apartment, the NYPD said

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A housekeeper found Spade in the bedroom of her Upper East Side apartment, the NYPD said

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