Last summer Nicole John, the 17-year-old daughter of then-Ambassador to Thailand Eric John, fell 22 stories to her death from an apartment in Midtown. Yesterday related charges against Ilan Nassimi, the 25-year-old whose apartment she fell from, were dropped. Though John may have been drinking at Nassimi's home she had also been drinking earlier that night at Tenjune. That fact, along with the two fake IDs she had on her, made it hard for lawyers to prove that Nassimi had been serving booze to minors.
As for why Nicole John fell out of the window in the first place, the prevailing theory is that she was trying to take a photo of the Empire State Building and didn't realize in her inebriated state there was not a terrace outside for her to stand on. When she got outside around 4:14 a.m. on August 27 she apparently lost her footing and fell.
Had charges against Nassimi been placed, he would have faced up to a year in prison.
