New Twist in ‘Mama and Tata’ Influencer Candice Miller’s Husband’s Suicide

When Brandon Miller took his own life in the garage of his $15 million Hamptons home, it ended an apparently idyllic family life which his wife had detailed on the “Mama and Tata” Instagram account.

Now, The New York Times reports, the eye-watering debts Miller left behind have been revealed: His widow got just $8,000 in the bank—and $33.6 million in debt.

The former influencer is now dealing with the mountain of debts her failed property developer husband incurred, while the family have been hit by fresh tragedy, with his elderly mother dying “with a broken heart” last month.

Miller’s Instagram account had shown her, her husband—a New York property developer—and their children attending parties, going on vacation, enjoying their multiple homes and private planes, earning her a legion of followers. She deactivated the account immediately after her husband’s death.

But since then, just how that life was financed has become clear. He owed more than $20 million in unsecured loans, according to legal filings reported by The New York Times— from lenders including UBS Bank, to which he owed $2.1 million, and Chicago-based BMO Bank, which had advanced him $11.25 million. He owed American Express more than $300,000 and had a series of other debts, including to individuals who had loaned him money knowing that he was in financial trouble.

However, as his widow Miller has benefited from life insurance policies worth $15 million, which her husband mentioned in a suicide note he left behind, sources told The Times. Many policies’ suicide exclusion lapses after two years, while some are issued without such an exclusion.

Miller has also sold the home where he died at an apparent profit. Documents suggest it had $12 million in mortgages against it but was listed for as much as $15.5 million and sources told the paper it had been sold last week.

His widow told friends she had no knowledge of his dire financial state before he died, The Times reported.

She is using her claims of lack of involvement in his finances to fight one suit brought against her, for $194,881.89 in unpaid rent at the Park Avenue, Manhattan, home where the family had lived since 2021. Her lawyers claim she cannot be liable because she did not sign the lease herself.

Miller and her two daughters now live in a $10 million apartment in Miami, which has been loaned to them by its owner, an LLC connected to Alexander von Furstenberg. Von Furstenberg is a director of IAC, which is part owner of the Daily Beast.

When Brandon Miller’s father Michael died, he also left his family in debt, a fact that was discovered at his funeral, the Daily Beast first revealed. Brandon’s name had been forged by Michael’s assistant on the debts.

Following the recent death of Brandon Miller’s mother, Brandon’s sister Maurley Miller said, “We are desperately trying to find comfort and peace in knowing that she has been reunited with her beloved husband, Michael, and precious son, Brandon.”