Leroy N. Soetoro
2018-05-21 18:57:14 UTC
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/19/us/new-york-mother-child-hotel-plunge/
New York (CNN)A 47-year-old former model and her 7-year-old son plunged to
their deaths in what the New York Police Department has deemed a murder-
suicide. The two were found unconscious after a fall from a New York hotel
Friday.
New York police found the bodies of Stephanie Nicolai and her 7-year-old
son, Vincent, on a second-floor balcony of the Gotham Hotel, where they
were guests, police said. The NYPD has determined that the mother's death
was a suicide, and the son's death was a homicide.
The bodies were discovered about 8:15 a.m. Friday after a 911 call about
an unconscious woman and child at the 25-story boutique hotel on East 46th
Street, according to police.
Detectives are investigating the case and trying to determine a motive.
Authorities are examining video from the area and speaking with people who
knew the woman.
The pair were staying in the hotel's penthouse, according to CNN affiliate
WABC.
Authorities looking for a motive
The order in which they fell to their deaths is unclear, according to one
source with knowledge of the ongoing investigation.
Detectives are also looking into the custody dispute between Nicolai and
her estranged husband, according to the source.
New York divorce lawyer Raoul Felder said he represented Nicolai in the
custody dispute until about four months ago and that he had grown
concerned about her.
"I've known her 20 years," he told CNN. "I was not only her lawyer but her
friend. I could tell something was wrong. ... I just didn't know what."
Felder, who said he hadn't heard from Nicolai in two or three months, said
she wanted to travel to Spain with her son.
"I said in the middle of a divorce case, you just can't do that," he said.
But the lawyer who'd represented her for about a month said he'd talked
with her extensively, even on the night before she died, and "there was no
indication whatsoever" that she might take her own life.
"We were talking about the broad strategies for her divorce," attorney
Daniel Kron told CNN Saturday.
Kron, who referred to his client as Stephanie Adams, said "there's a
certain amount of stress" in divorce proceedings but "she seemed to be
dealing with them quite well."
"She was in my office almost every day," he said. "She was a very
professional, high-class, thoughtful and considerate individual."
"It is inexplicable to me that this happened. I cannot think of how the
Stephanie I knew got to this point."
Attorney: Father is distraught
William Beslow, the attorney representing the child's father, Charles
Nicolai, told CNN his client believed his estranged wife was going to
remove the boy from the country.
He said a court this week ordered the mother to turn over Vincent's
passport to a lawyer appointed to represent him.
"He's in mourning," Beslow said of his client. "He's distraught. The
centerpiece of his life was his son. ... This guy is sweet, decent and
caring."
Nicolai, who used her maiden name -- Stephanie Adams -- on her website,
described herself as a former model who attended Fairleigh Dickinson
University.
She was a fashion model, Playboy magazine's Miss November 1992, an LGBT
activist and wrote "a series of astrology, new age, spiritual and
metaphysical books," according to the website.
"She was cheerful any time I saw her -- polite, dignified," Felder said.
"The boy was beautiful. Her whole life revolved around that child. She
would bring him to the office. He was just a lovely little child. He used
to love Spider-Man and the girls would fawn over him in the office and
color with him."
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be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
New York (CNN)A 47-year-old former model and her 7-year-old son plunged to
their deaths in what the New York Police Department has deemed a murder-
suicide. The two were found unconscious after a fall from a New York hotel
Friday.
New York police found the bodies of Stephanie Nicolai and her 7-year-old
son, Vincent, on a second-floor balcony of the Gotham Hotel, where they
were guests, police said. The NYPD has determined that the mother's death
was a suicide, and the son's death was a homicide.
The bodies were discovered about 8:15 a.m. Friday after a 911 call about
an unconscious woman and child at the 25-story boutique hotel on East 46th
Street, according to police.
Detectives are investigating the case and trying to determine a motive.
Authorities are examining video from the area and speaking with people who
knew the woman.
The pair were staying in the hotel's penthouse, according to CNN affiliate
WABC.
Authorities looking for a motive
The order in which they fell to their deaths is unclear, according to one
source with knowledge of the ongoing investigation.
Detectives are also looking into the custody dispute between Nicolai and
her estranged husband, according to the source.
New York divorce lawyer Raoul Felder said he represented Nicolai in the
custody dispute until about four months ago and that he had grown
concerned about her.
"I've known her 20 years," he told CNN. "I was not only her lawyer but her
friend. I could tell something was wrong. ... I just didn't know what."
Felder, who said he hadn't heard from Nicolai in two or three months, said
she wanted to travel to Spain with her son.
"I said in the middle of a divorce case, you just can't do that," he said.
But the lawyer who'd represented her for about a month said he'd talked
with her extensively, even on the night before she died, and "there was no
indication whatsoever" that she might take her own life.
"We were talking about the broad strategies for her divorce," attorney
Daniel Kron told CNN Saturday.
Kron, who referred to his client as Stephanie Adams, said "there's a
certain amount of stress" in divorce proceedings but "she seemed to be
dealing with them quite well."
"She was in my office almost every day," he said. "She was a very
professional, high-class, thoughtful and considerate individual."
"It is inexplicable to me that this happened. I cannot think of how the
Stephanie I knew got to this point."
Attorney: Father is distraught
William Beslow, the attorney representing the child's father, Charles
Nicolai, told CNN his client believed his estranged wife was going to
remove the boy from the country.
He said a court this week ordered the mother to turn over Vincent's
passport to a lawyer appointed to represent him.
"He's in mourning," Beslow said of his client. "He's distraught. The
centerpiece of his life was his son. ... This guy is sweet, decent and
caring."
Nicolai, who used her maiden name -- Stephanie Adams -- on her website,
described herself as a former model who attended Fairleigh Dickinson
University.
She was a fashion model, Playboy magazine's Miss November 1992, an LGBT
activist and wrote "a series of astrology, new age, spiritual and
metaphysical books," according to the website.
"She was cheerful any time I saw her -- polite, dignified," Felder said.
"The boy was beautiful. Her whole life revolved around that child. She
would bring him to the office. He was just a lovely little child. He used
to love Spider-Man and the girls would fawn over him in the office and
color with him."
No LGBT activist has their head screwed on straight.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.