Drew Heissenbuttel’s GF, fashionista Ashley Riggitano jumped from the George Washington Bridge after fighting with 5 frenemies over FB and one male who didn’t treat her well, I wonder if that man is her boyfriend Drew, the reason her feud with Alison Tinari began on Facebook a few days ago
“Go try to kill yourself on Xanax again, you unstable loser. Go f–k yourself and never speak to me again,” Alison Tinari wrote in a Facebook exchange with troubled Ashley Riggitano, who killed herself Wednesday, her 22nd birthday.
The blond beauty left behind a multipage, handwritten note in a Louis Vuitton bag that excluded Tinari and four other women from the funeral because of their contentious relationships through the years.
A source identified the others as Teresa Castaldo, Beth Bassil, Victoria Van Thunen and Samantha Horneff.
Van Thunen was Riggitano’s business partner at Missfits, a jewelry-design business. Castaldo and Bassil were classmates at Midtown’s Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, and Horneff was a friend from New Jersey.
Riggitano placed her handbag on a walkway at about 4:40 p.m. Wednesday before leaping from a midway point in the Jersey-bound lanes of the upper level, authorities said.
Prescription drugs, including Adderall, which is used to treat ADHD, and Klonopin, an anti-panic drug, were found in her bag.
Riggitano’s suicide notes — written in girlish cursive on lined, loose-leaf paper — revealed the depths of her despair.
“To any funeral, these people should not be allowed based upon words and actions,” she wrote about the five women.
She also mentioned three others by first name only — calling them “only people I love & always there to tell sorry.”
She blasted her other pals, writing, “All my other ‘friends’ are in it for gossip, never there just 1/4 for gossip.”
Hours before the suicide, Van Thunen ripped Riggitano in a Facebook post.
“Those who incessantly blame others as the cause of their issues should perhaps take a step back and re-evaluate these situations,” Van Thunen, 21, wrote.
“The common thread may be that ‘they’ aren’t the problem, but rather that YOU are.”
About a month earlier, Riggitano initiated an ugly, two-day exchange with Tinari that led to the Xanax suicide comment.
The fight stemmed from Tinari’s ongoing friendship with Riggitano’s boyfriend, aspiring race-car driver Drew Heissenbuttel.
“It’s really horrible what happened. I feel really bad for her family. It’s crazy. I feel really bad for her. I never went after her; she went after me,” a remorseful Tinari told The Post yesterday, adding that she didn’t even know Riggitano before the exchange.
22-year-old Drew Heissenbuttel born on June 22, 1990 to Beverly Heissenbuttel and Fred Heissenbuttel. It was Drew’s mom who told media her son devastated over his pretty girlfriend’s suicide.
‘I’ve spoken to Drew, I know that he’s devastated. He was always there to support Ashley, he was one of her support mechanisms, he’s very, very upset, obviously.’
She told how the couple had an ‘on off’ relationship and Drew would see Ashley when he was back home in New Jersey, adding ‘they were very good friends. She was a lovely girl, I spent time in her company. When she was with Drew, they did what normal kids do, they went out to eat, they went to the movies.’.
And talking about online bullying, Mrs Heissenbuttel said: ‘If someone has issues, this exacerbates it. I just don’t think these kids understand the ramifications, they just don’t get it.
‘I don’t know what it’s going to take to get them to be more respectful. These tragedies keep occurring and I don’t know what the answer is.
‘My heart goes out to her parents, I can’t even fathom what they’re going through.’
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