Fashion designer L`Wren Scott, Mick Jagger`s girlfriend, dead at 47

USPA News - Fashion designer L`Wren Scott, the long-time girlfriend of `Rolling Stones` icon Mick Jagger, was found dead at her New York City apartment on Monday in an apparent suicide, officials said. It comes weeks after she abruptly canceled a high-profile show.

Scott, 47, was found dead at 10:05 a.m. local time on Monday when her assistant went to her penthouse apartment on 11th Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan. New York media said the fashion designer was found hanged from a scarf on a doorknob. According to the New York Daily News, police sources said Scott had texted her assistant at 8:30 a.m. local time and asked that she come over. When she arrived at the apartment about 1.5 hour later, she discovered Scott`s body and called 911, the newspaper reported. New York Police Department spokesman Detective Mark Nell said officers arrived at the scene just after 10 a.m. and found Scott "unconscious and unresponsive." Paramedics also responded and pronounced her dead upon arrival. Police are treating Scott`s death as a suspected suicide, although the medical examiner`s office has yet to determine an official cause and manner of death. "Our investigation is still continuing," said Detective Mark Nell. In a brief statement, a spokesman for Mick Jagger said the `Rolling Stones` co-founder was "completely shocked and devastated by the news." Jagger, who is on tour with his band and arrived in Australia on Monday, had been dating Scott since 2001. Born Luann Bambrough, Scott was raised by adoptive parents in Utah and began her career as a model before moving to Los Angeles to become a fashion stylist, according to a biography on her company`s website. She was a renowned stylist and fashion designer whose clothes have been worn by A-listers including Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Penelope Cruz and many other celebrities. Makeup artist Bobbi Brown, who just last month worked with Scott on a cosmetics line called the `Bobbi Brown x L`Wren Scott Collection,` said she was "devastated" by the news of Scott`s death. "She was a visionary and designer who I very much enjoyed working with, but she was also smart and kind," Brown said. Last month, Scott abruptly canceled her show at the London Fashion Week, citing `production delays.`.