Alexander McQueen Left Suicide Note

Fashion designer Alexander McQueen hanged himself in his closet and left a suicide note, a coroner told a London inquest on Wednesday.

McQueen, 40, was found dead at his London apartment Thursday. The cause of death was asphyxia and hanging, said coroner’s officer Lynda Martindill.

A police officer told the inquest that McQueen’s death was “nonsuspicious,” according to Martindill. “The coroner said a note had been found and is being looked at by the police,” Martindill said, without offering details about the note. The coroner adjourned the inquest until April 28 in order to complete the full post-mortem report, she said.

McQueen, who had dressed stars from Sarah Jessica Parker and Nicole Kidman to Rihanna and Sandra Bullock, killed himself nine days after the death of his mother. He expressed his devastation at her death on his Twitter account days before he died.

McQueen, whose real name was Lee Alexander McQueen, had a reputation for controversy that earned him the titles “enfant terrible” and “the hooligan of English fashion.”

British Vogue Editor Alexandra Shulman called him a “modern-day genius.”

“His brilliant imagination knew no bounds,” she said after his death.

Eccentric singer Lady Gaga, who called herself a big fan and wore McQueen’s alien-inspired stilettos in a recent video, dedicated her performance at Tuesday night’s BRIT Awards in London to the designer.

McQueen was born in 1970 in London’s East End, the son of a taxi driver, according to a biography on the Vogue Web site.

Celebrity suicides are always the most shocking, I wonder if any of his friends/relatives saw this coming?

source: McQueen left a note and hanged himself, coroner says [cnn]

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