Thread: US Ambassador's Daughter Dies In Balcony Fall

Originally Posted by wefearourdespot

Next time I have to take a plane to beg another tourist visa I will think how fortunate I am compared to her.

Yes, you're not a pancake on a sidewalk.

Graduated from ISB? 'Nuff said.

Herald Towers tenants not surprised by Nicole John's tragic 22-story fall

BY Kevin Deutsch, Christina Boyle and Jonathan Lemire
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Sunday, August 29th 2010, 4:00 AM


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Nicole John, daughter of U.S. ambassador to Thailand, plunges to death from high-rise party at the Herald Towers Friday (below).


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The luxury high-rise where the beautiful daughter of a U.S. diplomat plunged to her death is known for wild parties that attract young revelers - and has also been the site of previous tragedies, its residents said.
Nicole John, 17, kicked off her shoes, turned her back on the wild party behind her and took a boozed-up step onto the ledge of a 25th-floor window when she lost her balance and then her life early Friday morning.
The debauchery in the Herald Towers apartment was not an uncommon scene in the W. 34th St. building, said neighbors who have long worried about such an accident.
"Something like this was bound to happen," said resident Kristen Donovan, who described seeing residents and guests having sex in the stairwells.
"It's disgusting but it happens overnight and security doesn't stop it. ... It's an out of control atmosphere."
Tenant Alex Mena said she often spots youngsters sitting precariously in their windows.
"It's so dangerous," said Mena, 39. "If you're drinking and lose your balance, it's so easy to fall."
John died after attending an alcohol-fueled party at the apartment of 25-year-old Ilan Nassimi, who was charged with handing out booze to minors. Neighbors said he frequently brought groups back from clubs for after-parties.
John's death was ruled an accident after an autopsy by the city medical examiner Saturday.
The cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma caused by a fall but the toxicology report won't be completed for several weeks, according to officials.
Sources said the Manhattan district attorney's office is probing the circumstances of John's death, including the time she spent at the Tenjune nightclub before her tragic fall.
John's father Eric, the U.S. ambassador to Thailand, and other relatives were descending on New York last night to claim the pretty teen's broken body. "We have a big family scattered all over the place," said Betsy Jennings, the victim's aunt, from her home in Kentucky. "We are all coming together."
A digital camera was found next to the teen's body, leading investigators to believe John - who was about to start her freshman year at Parsons The New School for Design - stepped on the ledge to take pictures. She kept an online diary displaying her photos - and revealing her fondness for vodka and Xanax - but that website was disabled Saturday.
Nassimi's apartment windows did not appear to violate any regulations, officials said.
The building is no stranger to death: In 1998, lawyer Joseph Levine leaped from the 17th floor and slammed into a newsstand on the street below. Four years later, Katarina Kaurate - the sister of model Eliza Kaurate - was found lifeless on an 11th-floor scaffolding.
The Herald Towers management company did not return calls Saturday.
With Joe Jackson, Mark Morales and Henrick Karoliszyn

NYC case dropped in diplomat daughter's fatal fall
FEBRUARY 8, 2011

NEW YORK — Prosecutors dropped charges Tuesday against a man accused of allowing underage drinking at a high-rise apartment where a former U.S. ambassador's teenage daughter fell to her death.

Nicole John, 17, apparently drank before getting to Ilan Nassimi's apartment Aug. 27, Manhattan prosecutors said. While there, John, whose father was then ambassador to Thailand, plummeted 22 stories after going out on a window ledge, police said.

"The dismissal confirmed exactly what we had been saying all along," said Nassimi's lawyer, Evan L. Lipton. "They never had any evidence that she had been drinking in his apartment."

Nassimi, who is in his 20s, faced charges of unlawful dealing with a minor and procuring alcohol for an underage person.

Nassimi, who runs an Internet business and works in real estate, met John at the trendy Manhattan club Tenjune that evening and invited her to an afterparty at his 25th-floor apartment near the Empire State Building, Lipton said. Police believe about a dozen people were at Nassimi's apartment and were drinking.

Around 4 a.m., John slipped off her shoes, stepped out onto a window ledge with a camera and tumbled to a third-floor ledge, police said. The camera was found with her body, but it wasn't clear whether she had gone out onto the ledge to take a photo.

John was an incoming freshman at Parsons The New School for Design. Her father, Eric John, had been appointed U.S. ambassador to Thailand in 2007. The State Department said Tuesday that he has since moved on, but did not immediately know where he currently was.

online.wsj.com

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by nikster

What a tragic accident. When you think back you realize how lucky you were to survive the period of, I don't know, 16 - 25, when you were doing lots of really stupid things that could have easily ended very badly.

For sure. Rich, spoiled, or otherwise, could happen to anyone. RIP young lady.

Yes ,rich or not,, a lot of us take chances and know when to pull back from the brink.
but shit can happen with alcohol or whatever or with nothing.
yea she was nice looking.
RIP.

There are some real horrible coonts posting on this forum. Who wasn't partying, boozing and taking drugs at 17, I know I was.

R.I.P.

poor lass,my condolenses to the familly ,such a sad loss.

Originally Posted by taxexile

that she had a priveledged background is irrelevant to this story.

If she didn't have a privileged background it wouldn't even be a story.