Police outside the building where fashion designer L'Wren Scott (right) killed herself Monday.
Police outside the building where fashion designer L'Wren Scott (right) killed herself Monday.
Mick Jagger’s longtime lover didn’t take any chanceswhen she hanged herself, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Tuesday.
L’Wren Scott — whose death prompted the Rolling Stones to postpone a nearly sold-out tour of Australia and New Zealand — wrapped a tie around her neck before using a black satin scarf to hang herself from a door handle in her swanky Manhattan apartment on Monday morning, sources said.
“The necktie would apply more pressure,” a source said.
“She must have figured that if the scarf wasn’t long enough or something, then the necktie would choke her out.”
“She clearly wanted to do the job right,” the source added.
Sources said that Scott — whose company was millions of dollars in debt — spent the week before her suicide in isolation at Jagger’s beachfront Caribbean villa before returning to Manhattan to hang herself.
Scott flew to the private island of Mustique while Jagger was performing with the Stones halfway around the globe, the sources said.
The normally bubbly fashionista maintained a low profile while at the remote, celeb-friendly vacation spot, with bartenders at two local hot spots telling The Post that they hadn’t seen her recently.
Scott, who regularly posted pictures from the island on her Instagram account, was strangely silent during the solo getaway.
Instead, one of the model-turned-designer’s final posts to the account — which was disabled after her death — reportedly read: “Fashion is the armour to survive the reality of life.”
She returned from the trip on Saturday, just two days before summoning her assistant via text message to her luxurious Chelsea duplex, a source said.
When she got there Monday at about 10 a.m., assistant Brittany Penebre found the 6-foot-3 brunette slumped dead on the kitchen floor, her neck tied to a balcony door handle with a black satin scarf.
Sources have told The Post that Jagger recently dumped Scott, 49, with one law-enforcement source describing her as the famed singer’s “former girlfriend.”
Scott, who was raised by adoptive parents and had long wanted a child of her own, was convinced she could change Jagger’s womanizing ways, Scott’s friend told the source.
But Jagger ended their relationship for good within the past several weeks, Scott’s friend said.
“He has blood on his hands,” the distraught pal said of Jagger, according to the source.
Jagger’s rep responded by reissuing a statement from Monday that said any claims of trouble between the couple were “100 percent untrue.”
The Daily Mail, citing a source close to the Stones, reported that Scott “harmed herself” about a month ago, but that the incident was “hushed up.”
In a message posted on the Rolling Stones’ Web site, the legendary rockers said they “are deeply sorry and disappointed to announce the postponement of the rest of their 14 ON FIRE tour of Australia and New Zealand following the death of L’Wren Scott.”
“Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood wish to thank all of their fans for their support at this difficult time and hope that they will fully understand the reason for this announcement,” the message said.
Also Tuesday, Jagger posted a full-body photo of the leggy, 6-foot-3 brunette he began dating in 2001, writing underneath: “I am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this tragic way.”
“We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves. She had great presence and her talent was much admired, not least by me,” he added.
“I have been touched by the tributes that people have paid to her, and also the personal messages of support that I have received.”
He signed the message: “I will never forget her, Mick.”
Jagger’s rep has insisted that the singer and Scott were “absolutely” still a couple when she died.
Meanwhile, a pal of Scott’s said she was about to close her business – and insisted she and Jagger had not split up.
“I learned since her death that she was planning to close her business, with an announcement on Wednesday. Still, as painful as the decision must have been for her, I wouldn’t draw any conclusions from it about her state of mind,” the friend, Cathy Horyn, wrote in an essay on The New York Times’ Web site.
“Nor should any credence be given to reports of a breakup with Mick. It’s rubbish.”
A spokeswoman for the city Office of Chief Medical Examiner said an autopsy of Scott’s body was scheduled for Tuesday.
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