article_snippet.sent: Jeff Richmond, who is an executive producer and the music composer on Tina Fey's husband wife's show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, described the death of Fredric Brandt, 65, on Sunday as 'very sad', speaking exclusively to Daily Mail Online.
article_snippet.sent: It came as sources close to Fredric Brandt said the doctor, who suffered from depression, told People magazine Fredric Brandt was 'definitely hurt' by an apparent portrayal of Fredric Brandt on the show.
article_snippet.sent: The friend called the Kimmy Schmidt send up 'bullying,' but added that it did not cause Fredric Brandt .
article_snippet.sent: Fredric Brandt was found hanged in the garage of Fredric Brandt Miami mansion on Sunday morning.
article_snippet.sent: Fredric Brandt was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the police report.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking out: Jeff Richmond, left in New York City today, spoke out today over the death of Dr Fredric Brandt.
article_snippet.sent: Sources were today opening up about how Fredric Brandt was wounded by the characterization - though Sources said that this suicide could not be pinned on one insulting TV show.
article_snippet.sent: Another source, speaking to the New York Daily News, said that Fredric Brandt had become fixated on Kimmy Schmidt appearance and cried in front of patients.
article_snippet.sent: When DailyMail.com asked Richmond about Fredric Brandt's death near Kimmy Schmidt home in New York City's Upper West Side, Kimmy Schmidt said Kimmy Schmidt hadn't been aware of it.
article_snippet.sent: The doctor had last seen Fredric Brandt on the Saturday night.
article_snippet.sent: Fredric Brandt's grew up in Weequahic neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey where Fredric Brandt's parents ran a candy store.
article_snippet.sent: Fredric Brandt's father died when Fredric Brandt's was a teenager and Fredric Brandt's lost Fredric Brandt's mother before Fredric Brandt's graduated from Rutgers University in 1971.
article_snippet.sent: Fredric Brandt's went on to attend Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia.
article_snippet.sent: Fredric Brandt's publicist declined to comment on the circumstances or cause of death .
highlights_snippet.sent: Surgeon to the stars Fredric Brandt, 65, hanged Fredric Brandt in Fredric Brandt Miami mansion on Sunday .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Friends said that, though Fredric Brandt Fredric Brandt was upset, the show didn't cause Fredric Brandt death .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Others said Fredric Brandt was weeping in Fredric Brandt clinic in weeks before suicide .