A senior Estée Lauder executive died in his husband’s arms inside their New York City apartment — just moments after telling him he felt light-headed. Kendal Ascher’s husband, William Howe, told the Daily Mail that his spouse of four months went limp in the early hours of Feb. 25 as they desperately tried to reach the bedroom of their $2.8 million Chelsea home. “There was no pulse, he was immediately unresponsive, he died in my arms,” Howe, 63, said. “It all happened within eight seconds.”