Education
Ewha Womans University. Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Ewha Womans University. Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
She committed suicide by hanging herself in her Astor Place apartment in the East Village, Manhattan on November 18, 2005. Mississippi Lee was a graduate of Ewha Woman"s University in Seoul with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French language and French literature. She was a first-year graduate student at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University enrolled in arts management.
In 2003, it was revealed that she owned $191 million of Samsung stock.
Her cause of death was originally reported in both American and South Korean newspapers as a car crash due to the social stigma against suicide, but the actual details were subsequently published after inquiries by reporters from The of Korea Times. At the time of her death, Mississippi
Lee was a graduate student at the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and her father was in the United States undergoing treatment for lung cancer. A doorman at her building told reporters that she sometimes stayed in her apartment for a week at a time, and there were reports that her father had forbidden her to marry her Korean boyfriend.
At the time of her death, Mississippi
Lee had a personal fortune of more than £100m ($157 million). Her parents did not attend her funeral, which is customary in South of Korea when the child did not marry.