"US ambassador’s daughter dies in NYC fall" by Associated Press | August 28, 2010
NEW YORK — A 17-year-old girl whose father is the US ambassador to Thailand slipped off her shoes and stepped out onto the ledge of a Manhattan high-rise apartment with a camera before plummeting more than 20 stories to her death, police said.
Nicole John fell about 4:15 a.m., apparently from the top floor of the 25-story Herald Towers, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. She was found on a third-floor ledge with severe trauma to her body after people across the street saw her fall.
Her death was believed to be an accident. John was believed to have been drinking....
John had a fake ID from Brazil that gave her age as 23 or 24....
Police believe the apartment might have been cleaned up by the time investigators arrived...
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