Mick Jagger's long-term girlfriend L'Wren Scott took her own life, a New York coroner says.
Scott, 49, a former model turned fashion designer, was found dead by her assistant in her luxury New York City apartment on Monday.
Following an autopsy carried out on Tuesday, the New York coroner's office confirmed what had been widely reported.
Scott had been dating Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger since 2001.
The Rolling Stones cancelled their seven-date tour of Australia and New Zealand after news broke of Scott's death.
Jagger, 70, who was in Perth with his band is reported to have travelled to New York.
The veteran rocker on Tuesday said he was "struggling to understand" why Scott would take her own life.
It has emerged that Scott's fashion design business was millions of dollars in debt at the time of her death.
A spokesman for Jagger has dismissed a report in the New York Post tabloid which said the rocker had recently broken up with Scott.
"This is a complete and utter fabrication and a result of ill-informed gossip at this tragic time for Mick. It is absurd and not true," Jagger spokesman Bernard Doherty said.
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