Famous author who penned books on Bobby Kennedy and Edie Sedgwick jumps to her death from [Tr]

Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | May 1, 2017 | Hannah Parry

[Cecily]

A famous author, who penned biographies for Bobby Kennedy and Edie Sedgwick, leaped to her death from a Manhattan high rise on Sunday.

Jean Stein, 83, plunged from the 15th story of 10 Gracie Square on the Upper East Side, in New York at 10.35am.

She landed on the an eighth-floor balcony below and paramedics say she died at the scene, New York Daily News.

[Bigg Red]

jest

[Bigg Red]

Octogenarians are sprightlier now than they were in the past.

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Very true. I have an older brother who just turned 81 yesterday.

[Bigg Red]

LOL! Better make some more quickly.

[Bigg Red]

Excellent explanation.

[Bigg Red]

Okay, well I watch very few movies and would definitely never waste my time on any Warhol trash.

[Bigg Red]

Okay, well I watch very few movies and would definitely never waste my time on any Warhol trash.

[luvbach1]

How often do Octagenarians jump out of buildings? Totally serious question.

Very good point. Surviving to the age of 83, in itself, is evidence of considerable coping capacity. R.I.P.

[Rastus]

40,000 men and women every day. Another 40,000 coming every day.

[luvbach1]

47% of old people jump to their deaths every year.

Please, where did you get that stat?

[Rastus]

Confucius say, man with low ceiling jumping to contusions.

[Fightin Whitey]

40,000 men and women every day. Another 40,000 coming every day.

That is precisely why you don't see as many old people walking around as you otherwise would.

[EDINVA]

Didn’t Amy Vanderbilt, the author of etiquette books, also plunge to her death (not from the same building) as Gloria Vanderbilt’s son (and Anderson Cooper’s brother?)

[stylecouncilor]

Ping

[Rastus]

Instead of death panels, Sarah should have raised the specter of death springboards.

[BradyLS]

She might have been _off_ her medication.

[Fightin Whitey]

Instead of death panels, Sarah should have raised the specter of death springboards

The Bridge To Nowhere: The Work of a Visionary!

[Cecily]

Agreed. Edie’s strange family, the people who knew Edie and were interviewed for the book and the 60s “scene” described in the book were all more interesting than Edie herself.

[LongWayHome]

Sad to see her come to this whatever her politics. Perhaps she was ill. They are indeed an establishment family.

[Hugin]

What an odd headline to tell us she’s a “famous author” but not give her name. How famous could she be?

[BlackbirdSST]

...and couldn’t get her hands on some pills to do it peacefully?

Maybe she did and just could not contain the urge to fly?!