{"id":331037,"date":"2010-02-17T12:39:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=93496"},"modified":"2010-02-17T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:39:24","slug":"alexander-mcqueen-death-confirmed-as-suicide-by-hanging-coroner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/331037","title":{"rendered":"Alexander McQueen Death Confirmed As Suicide By Hanging, Coroner Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fashion designer Alexander McQueen hanged himself in a closet his home in central London after leaving a note at the scene, an inquest into his death heard on Wednesday revealed. This morning, a British medical examiner confirmed to Westminister Coroner Court that the designer died of asphyxiation and hanging due to suicide.<\/p>\n

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The fashion designer — a five-time winner of Britain’s coveted “Designer of the Year” Prize — killed himself on the eve of the funeral of his mother, Joyce.<\/p>\n

“At about 10.30am last Thursday, February 11, a man was found hanging in his wardrobe at Flat 1, Green Street, London, W1. On Monday February 15, he was identified as Lee Alexander McQueen, aged 40, born 17\/3\/69 in Lewisham, south east London. He was a single man, a fashion designer. He resided at Flat 1, 7 Green Street W1K,” Coroner’s officer Lynda Martindill said during a five-minute hearing early Wednesday. <\/p>\n

A letter was passed to reporters asking them to respect the McQueen family’s privacy: “This notice on behalf of the McQueen family for your recognition that it has suffered a grievous double loss in a very short space of time and that any insensitive and\/or intrusive photographs and\/or footage will only compound to the family’s distress.”
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Fashion designer Alexander McQueen hanged himself in a closet his home in central London after leaving a note at the scene, an inquest into his death heard on Wednesday revealed. This morning, a British medical examiner confirmed to Westminister Coroner Court that the designer died of asphyxiation and hanging due to suicide. The fashion designer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}