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>Alexander McQueen hanged himself in the wardrobe of his London apartment and left a suicide note in February 2010. Officials later ruled the cause of the 40-year-old fashion designer's death as asphyxia and hanging.
>Officials didn't disclose what the note 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, was born the son of a taxi driver in London's East End. He trained in London's Savile Row at a company that made suits for Prince Charles, and earned a reputation for controversy that earned him the titles "enfant terrible" and "the hooligan of English fashion."