A senior Estée Lauder executive who died in his husband’s arms moments after feeling lightheaded inside their 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 told the Daily Mail.
Ascher’s February 25 death was ruled accidental in the report, which was given to his loved ones over the weekend.
Ascher’s grieving husband, William Howe, told the outlet 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 did have 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.”