Ex-Playmate & Son Fall To Deaths From Hotel Suite

A former Playmate centrefold has plunged to her death with her seven-year-old son from the window of a New York City hotel.
Both the 47-year-old woman, Stephanie Adams, and the boy, Vincent, were pronounced dead at the scene, the Gotham Hotel in midtown Manhattan.

She was in a bitter custody battle with her estranged husband over the child, according to local media.

Ms Adams had checked into a 25th-floor penthouse suite on Thursday evening.


Police told reporters the woman and boy fell 23 floors and landed on a second-floor balcony in the back courtyard of the hotel on Friday morning.

Police radio communications described the victims as "jumpers", implying it was a case of suicide, reports the New York Times.

A waiter at the hotel's restaurant told the New York Daily News: "One of the guests of the hotel they called the lobby.

"They said, 'We saw a dead body.' They said one but then they realised there [were] two."

According to her website, Ms Adams was Playboy's Miss November 1992 and once dated Hollywood actor Robert De Niro.

She was in a bitter child custody battle with ex-husband Charles Nicolai, who owns a Manhattan chiropractic clinic, report local media.