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Ambassador's 17-Year-Old Daughter Partied With Fake ID

Early yesterday, the 17-year-old daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand fell over 20 stories to her death in Midtown, after a night of partying. While it's unclear whether she was drinking (an autopsy is being performed), Nicole John apparently had a fake ID; on her Tumblr blog (now removed), she gave advice, "As long as the ID is pretty legit looking it should be okay. It’s also easier if you’re a girl, lol. I have a brazilian ID that was made here in NYC and it’s really good, it’s never been rejected."

John, daughter of Ambassador Eric John, had graduated from high school in Thailand and was about to start college at the New School. She had been out at the Meatpacking District club Tenjune until 2:15 a.m. Friday morning, when Ilan Nassimi, 25, invited her and her friends to his 25th floor apartment at the Herald Square Towers on West 34th Street. John apparently took off her shoes and climbed out "onto an 18-inch window ledge with a camera"; the NY Times reports, "Being unfamiliar with the apartment, she might also have believed there was a terrace outside the window."

The others didn't realize she had climbed outside the window, but a witness nearby called the police after seeing John fall; her body was found on the third-story ledge of the building. The building's super said, "I found her there. I looked at her and she was so young. It was not a pretty sight. She was just a baby."

Nassimi was arrested for misdemeanor charge of unlawfully dealing with a child last night; in court papers, he said he invited people for an afterparty, "During the party there was drinking and smoking." He also said he had no idea John was under 21. By the time police arrived, the apartment was cleaned up—Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "There was no alcohol, or no indication of a party going on"—but the Daily News reports, "Investigators discovered an empty bottle of Patron tequila on the windowsill inside the flat and empty bottles of Glenlivet scotch and Belvedere vodka on a living room shelf. A bottle of Skyy vodka was on ice in the freezer, prosecutors said." The Post's sources also say the cops will be interviewing Tenjune.

Her Tumblr postings and photographs suggested she regularly drank: "Whaaaaaat a f----n' EPIC weekend. Intoxication for about 40 hours straight," "Vodka/redbulls + long island ice teas + ambiens + xanax = om nom nom (delicious)," "I had a great night that consisted of a bottle of white wine and a pitcher of margarita :)" and:

I went to Washington DC for the weekend. Friday night went to a house party and played beer pong, etc, got shwasted/cross-faded. Saturdayyy went clubbing which was awesome getting VIP treatment, up until the part where I’m trying to hail a cab at 3 am, really really drunk, and these three ghetto black people passing snatch my new iPhone 4 out of my hand and ran away… which happened to have the address of where I’m staying. Took me two fucking hours with the police to figure out where the house was where I was staying; I got SO lucky that a bouncer overheard my friend telling me my address earlier that night. Oh and the police found out that I wasn’t 21…but they didn’t care, haha. They were on my side. SO aside from getting robbed, it was a goooood weekend. Eventful, to say the least.

But it was also full of youthful wishes ("Oh New York City, how I've dreamt of you since I was little. One more month and you're all mine"_ and tidbits about herself (things she liked: "Lucid dreaming," "Really high heels"; and hated: "When people say'“irregardless.' IT’S NOT A WORD PEOPLE. IT’S JUST 'REGARDLESS,'" "Fake bitches," "Mushrooms"). The Post notes that she had the world at her fingertips: "John had a butler at her disposal. She traveled on a whim, and hobnobbed with the most influential people in the world with her diplomat dad and strikingly gorgeous Korean-born mother, a chef and linguist." She also quoted the Gossip Girl character Blair Waldorf, "Whoever said that money doesn't buy happiness didn't know where to shop."

Her aunt Betsy John Jennings told the NY Times, "Her father had just brought her over from Bangkok and moved her into her dorm. I just spoke to her Monday evening, and she was just so pleased and happy with her roommates and to be in the school."

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  • mutuelle

    At ths age all these things do happen.This is her life!What if she is the ambassador daughter!All yougsters do commit a bunch of mistakes.haha why you all want to know who is her mother?

  • ny realist

    she was a waste of space.



    "Whaaaaaat a f----n' EPIC weekend. Intoxication for about 40 hours straight," "Vodka/redbulls + long island ice teas + ambiens + xanax = om nom nom (delicious),"

  • The Man Bat

    Absolutely Gorgeous......when does her sextape hit the interwebs?

  • wow 14th street

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  • dgeee

    When you were 17 and you didn't do a bunch of things that could have possibly killed you or gotten you arrested, you wasted your youth.

  • PaleBeauty

    Why do so many asians try to look white? And even with the fake colored contacts, probable plastic surgery, who knows what else, still isn't that pretty.

  • silver

    I'd hit it

  • come on, there has got to be trashier pictures of her than this...

  • Cranky Old Man

    I came of age during the lates 80's in the city. Someone please explain why the bar/club scene in New York feels so homogenized and boring these days? What the hell is 'bottle service'? And why does nearly every single place have a friggin velvet rope in front of it?

  • suepart

    don't drink and dive.

  • kazubes

    I think teenage substance abuse is pretty common across all income levels

  • potsmoker

    i bet he was a great lay! 17yr old vag is a helluva drug.

  • wow 14th street

    Booze is a bad companion.

    That was on a fortune cookie .



    Don't say anything you would not wish

    to have your parrot repeat.

    Another fortune cookie.



    "Man against himself" a book from the 1930's

    still makes sense written by Dr.Karl Menninger.



    Sad this case of La Dolce Vita.

  • balutanski

    poor kid. rest in peace.

  • ribaldry

    VAG

  • archiangel

    Wow... Well I was not surprised to her background story. Pretty young thing + rich and privileged + hedonistic city = lots of trouble. Sucks that she died, but the fact that she was so blatant about her 'privileges' and her disregard for the law (diplomatic immunity works overseas only, girl!) almost makes me think she deserved it. Yea lots of ppl party underage but ppl also keep it on the d/l, not flaunt it for the world to see. I definitely would have preferred a DUI charge or something for her over death. Such a dumb way to go.



    I know this is not true of all diplomatic families, but I do know that some/many of the offspring take full advantage of diplomatic immunity to do what they want. when I was in HS the son of the Canadian ambassador to Taiwan used to steal people's motorcycles and joyride all over the city. Each time he was caught he would just laugh in the cops' faces and walk away scot free. Ant that was the least of the crap he would pull. Not a good way to build moral integrity.

  • ANGRYGOD11

    Taiwan cannot arrest him, but can always ask him to leave the country. The fact they didn't and enabled him to repeat petty crimes reflects laziness by Taiwanese officials.

  • balutanski

    so she "deserved" to slip from a ledge and fall to her death?

  • unretrofiedforu

    What happened, had a crush on her?



    She didnt DESERVE to die, but she DESERVED the consequences of her actions. She could have easily not went out that night. It's tragic for sure, but let's not excuse idiocy here.

  • jules1000

    horrible accident. And yes, all young people like to party. I have partied too much many times, even into my thirties, and thank god nothing really bad ever happened to me.



    Her very intense consumption of alcohol, pills, and most likely more, would have let to something bad sooner or later.

    What bothers me is that her blog was accessible to anyone, therefore also to her parents, who could have easily read about her daughter's detailed accounts of her excessive alcohol consumption.



    They should have intervened, send her to a strict boarding school or something.

    Of course, I know, if someone really wants to party like crazy or abuse booze, they will...



    tragic.

  • BettyDavis

    Don't get why people care so much about this at all.She was just taking up space with her empty,vapid life.Like we all need another Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan.

    Please,let all of these parasites die.

    I wonder how much blow she did to make her tumble out of the window?

  • doo

    Congratulations! You're the worst person on the internet.

  • Guest

    wha....?

  • George

    So tragic. So much of the best part of life missed out on because of a childish desire to party more than would normally be possible at that age. The brazilian ID is no surprise. While companies like HP and all their rich Republican friends continue to offshore jobs to Brazil and shove good Americans into the streets so they can fill their pockets with gold the bad karma is piled up and continues to grow.

  • Petey

    How long did they wait to call 911 after it happened? The entire apartment was emptied out of people, and of evidence of a party?

  • grandzu

    "But according to her blog post" she planned on going sober and buckling down starting Friday afternoon.

  • Jewey Nougat

    "But according to her blog post" what? Is this article cut off for anyone but me?

  • Jesse

    It happens, oh well. Young people will never learn.

  • Stevennnn

    Seems like she was a spoiled rich brat getting whatever she wanted.



    What were her parents doing? They didn't know she was getting into clubs illegally and had a fake ID along with being wasted constantly.

  • Reflect

    Second, never in my life have i been so egotistical and full of shit..



    Parents obvoisly another set of simpletons to busy to be a part of there childrens life.

    Probably saved some poor parsons fugly assistant the trouble of working

    For this future wench/ anna wintour.

  • Christopher

    The diplomatic life -- especially in Southeast Asia -- is really not the ideal space to raise children. It's extremely high pressure, your parents are always partying. You have considerably more money at your disposal often than the local populations. Drugs are ever present. (And practically the local currency.)



    The children of diplomats and others in the diplomatic corps are usually very well educated but the displacement and the lack of day to day parenting seems to end up with more disasters than positive results.



    Sometimes something not as tragic as death -- 12 year old with a drug addiction -- will help to snap a diplomatic family out of the rut. And they will return to DC. But often the child's issues are not as easily discoverable and the careers of the parents continue on in whatever far flung destination they are in -- under the mistaken impression that this is a charmed life for their child. It is, I suppose, but I'd say overall the addiction issues for both parent and child are higher than the general population.



    At least from my experience.

  • JacqueMehoff

    don't have to be spoiled and rich, just pretty.

    you can chain them to the radiator and they'll still find a way to go out and party, she's 17, that's what teen girls do.

  • theLtrain

    Why'd you post all the stuff from her blog? So perverse and sick...



    a young girl had an accident and died, how are her fucking tumblr posts relevant?



    Really just so so so low Gothamist.

  • Reflect

    Me too i love when personals go public then you can save all that my daughter/son was mother teresa bullshit..



    Truth comes out, spoiled brat, goes to show education is farce, all that pointless memorization and you couldnt equate gravity works, beer and gravity no good..

  • John L

    Honestly, I'm sorry for the girl but I'm glad that media is making this public. I hope it will make more parents will realize that they have to be more diligent and monitor their kids' online behaviors. First, to make sure they're not engaging is risky illegal behaviors and secondly because the things they say on online may ruin their reputation, cost them a job or opportunities in the future.

  • theevilone

    Put your life on the Internet for public consumption, and people will use it.

  • John L

    Sad, sad, sad.



    Live fast, die young

  • schadenfreudian mensch

    & leave a good looking corpse.

  • JacqueMehoff

    again, I'll offer my services to her and others to be their hanger on to make sure nothing like this can happen.

    one look at me will turn one around. but then she did go out doing what she wanted and at the peak of her happiness.

  • Splicer

    It's too soon to saying anything about this so I'll simply say R.I.P.

  • freddynyc

    Is it me or do Thai chicks seem hotter and generally more responsive in personality than others of the same brethren, so to speak? Anyhow, it's a shame whenever a young life is cut short so suddenly but hey, at least she went out on top...(no pun intended, seriously).

  • theevilone

    Her mother is Korean.

  • Spirit of 76

    Shhh! To freddy and henryhamilton, all them yellow people look alike. Unless they're hot, in which case, they must be Thai.

  • Spirit of 76

    What makes you think she's Thai? Her father is the US ambassador to Thailand, not the ambassador from Thailand.

  • henryhamilton

    This is sad, but not really instructive. Lets try not to make this a friggin teachable moment. You know. The kind of "moment" that lasts a month. So. Please. Don't tell Oprah!

  • henryhamilton

    There is a picture of her with both parents. I don't know that her mother is Thai, but she is Asian and Thai would not surprise here.

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