A husband who shot himself dead at a shooting range after his model wife was pictured cozying up to Leonardo DiCaprio had filed for divorce weeks before. Katie Cleary was pictured cuddling up to DiCaprio and Entourage star Adrian Grenier last month in Cannes, before her husband Andrew Stern killed himself at a California shooting range on Sunday.
He had filed court papers to end the couple’s less-than-four-year marriage just weeks before the images emerged, according to court documents. And Cleary and Stern were still in the process of dividing up their assets when the 40-year-old entrepreneur took his own life with a bullet to the head at the San Fernando Valley gun range.
A spokesman for Cleary last night claimed the pictures were harmless but friends of his told TMZ that he felt humiliated. The divorce papers read: ‘The exact nature and extent of (Stern’s) separate assets including, without limitation, funds and/or other property interests due to (Stern) from (Cleary) by way of recoupment, misappropriation… are presently under determination.’
Andrew Stern, who is married to model Katie Cleary, shot himself dead at a shooting range on Sunday
Cleary and Stern, who had appeared on Bravo’s dating show Millionaire Matchmaker, married the model on July 31, 2010. The court documents state the pair separated on April 3, 2014.
However, Cleary’s rep told us that the couple broke up eight months ago and said Cleary and Grenier had been friends for sometime. The rep also said that Cleary and Dicaprio had only met the night they were photograph but insisted they were innocently discussing animal conservation and nothing else.
Cleary was pictured getting close to Leonardo DiCaprio at a club in Cannes last month
However, the celebrity website cites sources as saying Stern felt embarrassed by the pictures and was suffering depression. Interviews with the couple’s friends revealed he was ‘suffering significant stress over marital problems‘ and had a history of depression, TMZ earlier reported, while others said he had financial strains.
On Tuesday it emerged that two other men had taken their lives at the same shooting range in the past five years. Stern shot himself in the head at the Target Range in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, and according to local reports another man killed himself there just 10 weeks ago.
The unidentified man in his 50s shot himself in the chest at the indoor shooting range on April 6. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene, according to CBS LA. And in November 2009 a man in his 30s was reportedly wounded at the range and died at hospital about two hours later, an archive Los Angeles Daily News report says.
The latest tragedy comes just four weeks after 32-year-old Cleary was pictured getting close to DiCaprio at the Gotha nightclub in Cannes. The pair were seen chatting and dancing closely, while DiCaprio was pictured whispering into the model’s ear. The apparent closeness came even though DiCaprio is dating Victoria’s Secret model Toni Garrn.
Katie, who is from Glenview, Illinois, appeared on the first series of America’s Next Top Model while she was still a college student, before landing the role of ‘briefcase beauty‘ on popular game show Deal Or No Deal. The brunette beauty has since had minor roles in The Break Up, Iron Man 2 and Entourage, while appearing in advertising campaigns for Sketchers, Nike and Elastiderm.
She was also spotted out and about with Entourage cast member Adrian Grenier while in Cannes.
