Tragic new details have emerged from Anne Burrell's death in June 2025.
The beloved Food Network star, who was 55, was found dead in her Brooklyn, New York home on Tuesday, June 17.
Though initial reports indicated that per a 911 call from the New York City Fire Department, a person called in at 7:50 a.m. concerned that she had suffered cardiac arrest, her cause of death was ruled as a suicide the following month.
© Getty ImagesNow, a new report from the New York Police Department confirms that a "suicidal note" was left in the in the primary bedroom of Anne's home in Brooklyn, New York and found by an investigator following her death.
Multiple outlets have reported that investigators also discovered "suicidal" journal entries on a bed in the same room, according to the police report. Best Quality Designer Handbag has reached out to representatives for Anne for comment.
In the report, the NYPD also confirmed that in the early morning hours of June 17, 2025, the day Anne died, a redacted individual "married to Anne," (seemingly her husband Stuart Claxton), noticed that "the bed was made in their room which is not normal."
He subsequently found his wife on the bathroom floor "with a bunch of over the counter pills on the floor." He called 911 after she was unresponsive to attempts to wake her up.
© InstagramAccording to the police report, Stuart, a marketing executive, maintained to authorities that Anne had "never attempted suicide in the past" and "never talked about it," nor had she shown "any signs that she would do something like this."
One month after her passing, Anne's cause of death was specified as "acute intoxication due to the combined effects of diphenhydramine, ethanol, cetirizine, and amphetamine."
In addition to Stuart, who Anne married in 2021, Anne is survived by his son Javier, as well as her mother Marlene, her sister Jane, her children Isabella, Amelia and Nicolas, and her brother Ben.
© InstagramAnne and Stuart met in 2018 on Bumble, the popular dating app where women make the first move. Two years later, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, they found themselves in quarantine in her hometown of Cazenovia, New York, where Stuart ultimately proposed.
"Fortuitously, I brought the ring," Stuart said during an appearance on TODAY. "Anne's mother has a townhouse and lovely apartment. I asked her for permission to ask Anne to marry me and we then started planning and getting things together." They tied the knot in October 2021, at an estate in Cazenovia, a small town in upstate New York near Syracuse.
