Billy Joel's Daughter Hospitalized After Overdose

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Alexa Ray Joel — Billy Joel's 23-year-old daughter — is being treated at St. Vincent's Hospital in the West Village after an overdose on sleeping pills that police are considering a suicide attempt, according to the Post.

The aspiring singer and songwriter was rushed to the West Village medical center after a roommate in her Bethune Street apartment called 911 at around 12:21 pm. The paper reports that she is conscious and expected to survive. The Associated Press reports that she has been hospitalized, and is in stable condition according to her publicist, Claire Mercuri.

Joel is the daughter of famed musician Billy Joel and his former wife, supermodel Christie Brinkley. Joel, who earlier this year talked to the press about her father's most recent divorce, is scheduled to appear at a tree-lighting ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange and an event at J&R this Thursday. Her father has spoken candidly about his own suicide attempt when he was 21-years-old and drank furniture polish.

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By Ben Muessig in News on December 5, 2009 4:37 PM

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ribaldry

Another butterface cant hang with the ugliness.

Snoopy

She does have nice large Jewish tits that she got from Billy's mother.

Justin

The big question, did she use a bottle of red or a bottle of white to chase those sleeping pills down?

Vinny

I blame Meussig's headline. Or is it Muessig?

JoeyGirl

her eyes freak me out.

there's just so much of them.

Abbott

Oh her poor, sad life of fame and fortune. If anyone's got a reason to off themselves, it's this girl.

winrx

She's a bit on the skanky side, no? Anyhow, I wish I could say that I gave a rat's ass...

felixthecat2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XX8yP9eyWk

Buck Owens

Hell, if I had to listen to her dad's music all the time I would commit suicide as well.

tsol

Buckaroo FTW!

FinalShaft

She had to be a big shot lastnight

unsunghiro

gorgeous girl.. gives me the sads... aw, rich girls feel pain too! :(

felixthecat2

She is a cutie as Lisa marie Presley is. But the eerie part is they look like their fathers so you wonder who're fucking .

longacre

There are enough Long Island goombas obsessed with Billy Joel that I'm sure she has no problem finding boys to hook up with who pretend they're banging her dad.

NannyState

Oh that painted a picture...

Dick Pounds

I'd still hit it!

Snoopy

You said the same thing about Lynne Stewart.

JacqueMehoff

I hope she gets help. they usually send you to mandatory psych for suicide attempts.

I'm available to be her friend or hanger's on and make sure she won't try it again and she'll look like a beauty queen next to me.

She lives with a Roommate???? what??

Jen S

Selfless.

jchez

You guys are late to the party. Like she hasn't spent her entire life listening to morons tell her that her mother is gorgeous and she is not.

A 25 year old with everything at her disposal but she is so unhappy that she may have wanted to kill herself and all that idiots can comment on is her looks compared to her mother's.

I hope she recovers and gets the psychological help she needs.

VanessaNYC

Jchez, I second your comment.

People, just because you're posting online doesn't mean you can't act like civilized human beings. You criticize this young woman for not looking like Christie Brinkley, but I'd love to see what you look like behind those computer screens. She just tried to kill herself, so stop being such assholes and show a little compassion.