The IKEA founder and owner is famous and proud to be extremely stingy.

May I suggest perhaps realising after many attempts to persist with a dream that it is really all an illusion, there was a crashing reality?

We all die alone, but imagine if there was a terrible revelation that someone adored could not help or reciprocate love or loyalty?

Then there is the harshness of no legacy. Being adopted means limited ties to foundations, and no children hints at no paths beyond.

What would there really be to live for in a flat materialistic world where turnover and expiry drive fascination? This is a grand example of what many people experience, just not as overt or public.

It’s hideous and I feel such compassion for this woman.

These are the modern values that society promotes today. Such people always existed in all societies, but what is different today is the promotion of such people as celebrities to be emulated, and the PR tsunami aimed at the young to entrap them early.

You don’t accumulate GBP 5 million in debt overnight – L’Wren Scott should have cut her losses years ago (clearly she is not fit to run a business) and filed for bankruptcy protection.

Instead she chose to kill herself.

One part of me cannot help thinking that apart from sheer desperation, contrition and shame, there was a part of her wishing to get back at Mick Jagger in a morbidly vindictive way.

Not being well off as a child doesn’t imply that one will be stingy as an adult but it does increase the probability.

[Daphne – Some of the stingiest people I know were born into Malta’s most financially privileged families, Matthew S. And I mean, really stingy. It is an affliction of the spirit, nothing to do with circumstances at all, which is why you can be rich and miserly and poor and generous.]

Some rich people learn how to enjoy their money and use it well. Some spend it unwisely and find themselves in debt. Others get obsessed with saving it. It doesn’t matter how much money they make, they never feel they have enough to start spending or giving it away. When you’re brought up in squalor, it’s hard to get to grips with having money.

Mick Jagger has more money than he will ever need and Rolling Stones concerts regularly sell out. They are one of the top grossing bands in the world. Even though L’Wren Scott’s business sounds like it was doomed and should have probably been wound down, financial help by Jagger could have gone a long way.

It’s sad for me to learn about this side of Mick Jagger. I never knew about it, although I still always preferred Keith Richards, who always seemed more down to earth. In Keith Richards’s autobiography, Jagger comes in for some heavy criticism about his attitude to other people and how little he seemed to care about the people he worked with.

[Daphne – Definitely, if we’re both thinking about Pullicino Orlando. But we now know in retrospect, though I had said as much at the time, that stinginess was only part of it. The real reason was unhappiness with the marriage and a reluctance to be alone together, hence the presence on their honeymoon of the ubiquitous Consuelo and Robert.]

Anything beyond two years with a man as stingy as Mick Jagger is pure desperation and I am not surprised she sought refuge in suicide.

May she rest in eternal peace.

They are cursed.