Posted on 06/16/2026 3:20:30 PM PDT by dennisw
A senior Estée Lauder executive who died in his husband’s arms moments after feeling lightheaded inside their $2.8 million New York City apartment suffered a pulmonary embolism triggered by cosmetic fillers.
Kendal Ascher, 56, “suffered acute respiratory failure due to a pulmonary embolism connected to a foreign material after getting cosmetic filler injections,” the city’s medical examiner said Tuesday.
Ascher’s Feb. 25 death was ruled accidental in the report, which was given to his loved ones over the weekend.
Estée Lauder executive Kendal Ascher died suddenly in husband’s arms in their $2.8M NYC apartment Ascher’s grieving husband, William Howe, told the Daily Mail that he wasn’t aware of his husband, who was vice president of the beauty company, using cosmetic fillers before his death.
Howe, 63, said that he got Botox, which is not a filler, with his husband just five months before he died.
“It’s just profoundly sad,” the widow said, “I witnessed it, it was immediate. The cause was secondary.”
Howe previously told the outlet that his spouse of four months went limp in the early hours as they desperately tried to reach the bedroom of their Chelsea home.
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Men need to look pretty for their husbands.
Husband wife whatever. Those fillers can be a real killer diller. He had them done in Mexico? Or some other bargain spot?
Getting fillers can be signing your death warrant. Who they gonna sue?
You would think the NY Post would know better.
Agreed. I don’t care how much progressives push that crap, “his husband” will never be normal in a sentence.
I can’t see the name Estee without thinking of my grandmother. My great-grandmother was a bit of a gypsy like nut, but she couldn’t read. She named her twin girls Estee and Uvee (ST and UV). There was a book written about my great-grandmother. She escaped living in nursing homes more than once. She was a character. I remember her fondly.
"Howe previously told the outlet that his spouse of four months went limp in the early hours as they desperately tried to reach the bedroom of their Chelsea home."
Uranus filler?
I don’t know if it was as creepy to write that article as it is to read it and I’m not talking about the cosmetic fillers....
She sounds like a fascinating lady :-)
“his husband” mega barf.
This might save his husband some bucks on the mortuary bill.
“He died in his husbands arms..”
That’s imagery I don’t need.
The only tragedy is my temptation to wonder where “his” husband received the “filler” injection 🤦♂️
“His husband” - ick!
Interesting how only a short time ago that statement would be considered nonsensical or a typo.
“They desperately tried to reach the bedroom”
?
Stop. Get your phone out. Call 911. Age, location
Then call the doorman and have him go outside to wave in the EMS
Better chance of survival.
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