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How an Instagram-perfect life in the Hamptons ended in tragedy

By Katherine Rosman
New York Times·
15 mins to read

Warning: This story deals with suicide

Candice and Brandon Miller showed the public a world of glittering parties and vacations. The money to sustain it did not exist.

In the modern Gilded Age of New York, where Instagram is awash in unrestrained displays of wealth, Brandon and Candice Miller were royalty.

At their 10th wedding anniversary “Midsummer Night’s Dream” party, they celebrated with a few dozen friends in the backyard of their 510-sq m vacation home in the Hamptons.

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