Fashionista Suicide: Ashley Riggitano Note Excludes Certain Frenemies From Funeral
Fashionista Ashley Riggitano tragically leaped to her death from the George Washington Bridge in New York on her 22nd birthday on Wednesday. News has now surfaced that she may have felt under pressure by five former friends, whom she excluded from her funeral via suicide note, including one of them who told her to overdose.
"Go kill yourself on Xanax again, you unstable loser. Go f--k yourself and never speak to me again," Alison Tinari previously wrote in a Facebook exchange with the late Riggitano.
According to Daily Mail, Riggitano left a multipage, handwritten note inside a Louis Vuitton bag that barred Tinari and four others from her funeral due to their rocky relationships throughout the years.
A source stated that the other frenemies are Teresa Castaldo, Beth Bassil, Victoria Van Thunen and Samantha Horneff.
Van Thunen had been Riggitano's business partner at a jewelry design business they started together called Missfits. Castaldo and Bassil were her classmates at Midtown's Laboratory Institute of Merchandising and Horneff was a friend from New Jersey.
Authorities state that Riggitano put her designer handbag on a walkway at around 4:40 p.m. on Wednesday prior to jumping from a midway point in the New Jersey-bound lanes of the upper level.
Other contents inside the bag were prescription drugs that included Adderall, which is used for ADHD, and Klonopin, an anti-panic drug.
Riggitano's suicide notes were written in a feminine cursive handwriting on loose-paper and revealed her troubles.
"To any funeral, these people should not be allowed based upon words and actions," she wrote in regard to the five women.
The New York Post reports that Riggitano may have already attempted suicide at least once before and had a history of problems.
The fashionista had also worked as a part-time intern for New York jewelry and fashion designer Alex Woo.
In a phone interview with Mail Online on Thursday, Woo, who employed Riggitano as an intern, stated that everyone in his company was shocked by the news of her suicide.
"She always had a smile on her face, she didn't look depressed," she said.
