Instagram Couple’s Luxurious Life Ended in Tragedy

Candice and Brandon Miller were among those couples They seemed to have it all. He was a real estate mogul, and she was a famous socialite and influencer with a blog about lifestyle and motherhood.

On her Instagram account, where she has 80,000 followers, the content creator shared images of the ostentatious life they led with family and friends in New York.

But the image he projected was not as real as it appeared to the public.

Brandon died on July 3 at a Southampton hospital. He committed suicide while his wife and daughters were spending a few days on holiday on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. Suffolk County police said The New York Times .

The incident occurred in the middle of Millionaire Debts and Failed Investments which had been tormenting the businessman for several years and which he had hidden from his wife.

Candice, who was born and raised in New York City, knew Brandon from a young age as they were neighbors in the Hamptons. “We didn’t really start dating until we were in our 20s, when the timing was right,” the influencer said on the blog. Above the Moon .

“We always loved each other, but it was actually really nice to have waited all those years because we had no secrets, we knew everything about each other,” he added.

After dating for a year, Brandon proposed to her on a Super Bowl Sunday. They married in 2009 at the Metropolitan Club in New York City.

In 2016, the socialite decided to venture into the world of social networks and founded a blog and an Instagram account with her sister Jenna Crespi, whom they call Mom and Aunt .

The purpose of this space was to provide recommendations on fashion, decoration and family, although in recent years Candice has also focused on documenting her intense family and social life. Foreign travel, private planes and luxury cars were essential to its content.

According to The New York TimesEven though the influencer has dedicated a lot of time to social media, she hasn’t actually generated much profit this way.

Meanwhile, the dynamic of dividing family obligations was that she devoted herself to caring for her daughters and Brandon to business.

The businessman, who studied at Brown University, began his career in the real estate market by joining his father Michael Miller’s company, Real Estate Equity Corporation (REEC), in 2004. The company has purchased and developed several properties in the United States.

Through REEC, Brandon also acquired properties with large lots for himself and his family, including one in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood and another in Southampton.

According to the aforementioned media, after Michael Miller’s death in 2016, Brandon and one of his partners decided to take over the business. The arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the New York real estate sector into a crisis, which has directly impacted its business.

Although they solved the problems over time, REEC’s financial situation was no longer the same as before.

In 2021, the mogul chose to sell his family’s Tribeca home for $9 million. They moved into an apartment for $47,000 a month with furniture rented for 180,000 per year.

This wasn’t enough. Brandon stopped paying for some family expenses, like maintenance on their speedboat. He also took out several loans, including one for $6.1 million, against which he put his prestigious Hamptons estate as collateral.

Even though financial problems were affecting the clan, the influencer continued to organize luxurious events as she usually did. This, since according to sources close to the Miller family, Brandon did not inform his wife of the debts he had.

In late 2023, close friends of the businessman attempted to hold an intervention meeting to make him aware of his financial problems. Brandon burst into tears when confronted, but beyond that, the meeting was not fruitful.

The debts only increased over the months. Loans Brandon had applied for to finance the development of real estate projects and a $55,000 lawsuit against his outboard boat service were just some of the problems plaguing the businessman.

In May this year, one of the friends who had organised the intervention meeting and who had financed one of her mortgages decided to call Candice to inform her that the family was bankrupt, she said. The New York Times.

After confronting her about the call, Brandon managed to convince her that he had these issues under control. But it was all a lie.

A month later, the Miller family was planning to travel to Europe. However, Brandon decided to back out of the plan because he was supposed to be part of a deal that would allow him to fix the economic crisis.

He assured them that the trip was paid for and so they would have no trouble. Candice only realized it wasn’t real when her credit card was declined mid-trip.

Then, on June 28, the tycoon again asked an acquaintance for a loan, this time for just $1,000. Two days later, local police were alerted that the carbon monoxide alarm had gone off at the Millers’ Southampton home.

Brandon was found unconscious inside a Porsche Carrera. A photo of him with his family was found in the same vehicle.

He spent several days hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Stony Brook Hospital in Southampton. Despite medical efforts, he died on July 3.

Before that, he had sent a farewell letter to his wife in which he told her that his “agreement” not to go to Europe had failed, that he had lied to her and that for several years he had been struggling “with dark feelings.”

“Candice is devastated by the loss of her soulmate.” detailed a spokesperson for the influencer, who chose to close the Mama and Tata Instagram account after the death of her husband.