Former Playboy Centerfold Stephanie Adams
Former Playboy Playmate Stephanie Adams, 47, allegedly leaped to her death from an NYC building on Friday, 18 May. She took her 7-year-old son with her.
What happened?
Adams was in the middle of a nasty custody battle with her ex-husband, according to the New York Post.
She and her son checked into the Gotham Hotel on the night of Thursday, 17 May and stayed in a penthouse suite on the 25th floor. The following morning, their bodies were found on a second-floor landing in the hotel’s back courtyard.
Background
Adams, Playboy’s 1992 Miss November, was the first lesbian centerfold. She came out in a She Magazine cover story in 2003. In 2004, The Village Voice named her the best lesbian sex symbol. Early in her career, she had a short-lived marriage with a male investment banker.
However, in 2009, she married another man—Charles Nicolai, owner of Wall Street Chiropractic & Wellness. She had since become estranged from her husband, who reportedly demanded she hand over their child’s passport.
Sources told the New York Post that their relationship was so toxic that she would beet Nicolai with their son at a police precinct for visitation handovers.
It is unclear if Adams left a suicide note.
Reactions
Many on social media condemned Adams’ decision to take her son with her on the fatal leap. However, those who actually knew her understood the toxic situation she was in the middle of.
Those of us who personally knew her & her estrange husband knows there was an abusive person & toxic relationship. We do not condone what she did, but we do know the truth of their stories. Not like people who judge her simply from a news article they read/heard. #onlygodcanjudge
— Hotah Akicita (@hotah_akicita) May 19, 2018
She had custody of the child, he had visitation rights, they would meet at the First Precinct in Tribeca for handovers to ensure no violence took place since they had a toxic relationship. She was distraught especially after her Wednesday court hiring.
— Hotah Akicita (@hotah_akicita) May 19, 2018
So easy for strangers to judge another when they know nothing about that person’s life or the struggles they went through because of an abusive person. Sad that she felt this was her only option to end her’s & Vincent’s suffering.
— Hotah Akicita (@hotah_akicita) May 18, 2018
Others think there’s more to the story, and that perhaps she was pushed from the penthouse suite.
Did Stephanie Adams jump from that building with her son, or were they pushed? Seriously. It’s easy to write her off as a crazy madwoman, but there may be more to the story…
— Hilton Collins (@HiltonCollins) May 19, 2018
Did you all know that the former Playboy model Stephanie Adams, who authorities are saying “jumped out of a window” with her son, won a million dollar lawsuit against the NYPD a few years ago for being roughed up by police..
So did she JUMP from that window…
or
was
she
PUSHED? pic.twitter.com/RaGpLO98SZ— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) May 19, 2018
