Fashionista Suicide Leaves Names of Ladies on Facebook

Alison Tinari, Teresa Castaldo, Beth Bassil, Victoria Van Thunen and Samantha Horneff — these were the names of the ladies “fashionista suicide” 22-year-old Ashley Riggitano revealed on Facebook before she took her own life by jumping off the George Washington Bridge Wednesday.

“Go try to kill yourself on Xanax again, you unstable loser. Go f*** yourself and never speak to me again,” wrote Alison Tinari.

Authorities said in a report that before Riggitano committed suicide, she left a bag on a walkway at about 4:40 p.m. before leaping. Inside was a note mentioning the names of four other women. 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 wrote, “To any funeral, these people should not be allowed based upon words and actions,” she wrote about the five women.”

Tinari already denied knowing Riggitano:

“She harassed me on Facebook. I’m not her friend. She private- messaged me. She sent me messages on January 8 and 9, and I said some things. I told her she needs to leave me alone … The only thing I’m ashamed of is what I said about her overdosing on Xanax. I shouldn’t have said that.”