Fashionista Suicide Diary: Ashley Riggitano Excluded Five Frenemies From Funeral, Details
A troubled New York fashionista, Ashley Anne Riggitano, 22, tragically jumped to her death from the George Washington Bridge on Wednesday. Details of a suicide diary the late beauty had written emphasizing her strained friendships with five frenemies has now surfaced on the Internet.
Daily Mail reports that Riggitano left behind a multipage letter inside a Louis Vuitton bag that barred AlisonTinari and four other females from her future funeral due to her mistrust of them.
"To any funeral, these people should not be allowed based upon words and actions," she wrote in regard to the five women.
Authorities state that Riggitano placed the designer handbag with the cryptic pages in it on a walkway at around 4:40 p.m. prior to her jump from a midway point in the New Jersey-bound lanes of the upper level of the bridge.
Other contents found inside the bag were the prescription drugs Adderall, which is used for ADHD, and Klonopin, an anti-panic medication.
A source of the news publication stated that the other four unidentified names 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. It's believed that she posted the following message on her Facebook page Wednesday prior to Riggitano's suicide:
"Those who incessantly blame others as the cause of their issues should perhaps take a step back and reevaluate these situations. The common thread may be that 'they' aren't the problem, but rather that YOU are."
Castaldo and Bassil were her classmates at Midtown's Laboratory Institute of Merchandising and Horneff was said to be a friend from her home state of New Jersey.
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 two days a week as an 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.
