Nicholas Pyke

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Nicholas Pyke |Sharon Churcher

The best friend and business partner of Kate Spade has broken a seven-year silence about the fashion icon's shock suicide, delivering an emotional account of her final hours. In a memoir out next week, Elyce Arons rejects controversial allegations that Spade was driven to take her own life by the collapse of her marriage or that the designer refused treatment for chronic mental illness.