Two Young New York Women Jump To Their Deaths

Phoebe Fairweather jumped off her family’s luxury building and died in the hospital.
Photo: Patrick McMullan

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The stepdaughter of famed sculptor John Chamberlain jumped to her death from her family’s 16th-floor balcony on the Upper East Side on Monday morning.
Phoebe Fairweather, 23, sat with her legs dangling from the ledge at 800 Fifth Ave. before jumping around 10:20 a.m. as cops tried to persuade her to come back inside, law enforcement sources said.
Phoebe Fairweather jumped off her family’s luxury building and died in the hospital.Photo: Patrick McMullan
“For a while, the woman was sitting on there and it was obvious that she was talking to someone inside the residence,” said witness Anthony Woodcock, 44, who was walking by.
“As soon as she turned back was when she jumped.”
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The woman’s sister, Alexandra, lives in the building — which is owned by Eliot Spitzer’s family — but Fairweather moved out a few months ago, according to doorman Gabriel Santos.
She attended Barnard College before dropping out to pursue art, and described herself as an artist with a focus on “small-scale soulful pieces” in a biography page on her website.
Chamberlain, whose crushed-car sculptures have appeared in museums like the Guggenheim and Dia: Beacon, died in 2011.
Family members told police that Fairweather has a history of mental instability, according to law enforcement sources.
She’d recently complained about the FBI watching her and that someone put a device in her chest, relatives and friends told police, the source said.
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Stepdaughter of famed sculptor dies after plunge from balcony
By Natasha Velez and Amanda Woods
New York Post
September 14, 2015 | 7:59pm

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Spectators said they saw Fairweather sit on the balcony with her legs dangling before she jumped.
Photo: James Messerschmidt

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A young woman was fighting for her life after jumping out of a 16th-floor window at a luxury Upper East Side building Monday morning, cops said.
The 23-year-old woman flung herself from the 16th floor of 800 Fifth Ave. at about 10:20 a.m. as cops tried to talk her out of it, law enforcement sources said.
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Woman clings to life after leap from 16th floor of luxury building
By Natasha Velez
New York Post
September 14, 2015 | 4:14pm

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A woman jumped to her death from the East Village apartment of Tony-nominated actor David Harbour Monday evening, sources said.
The unidentified woman, whom Harbour had met at a treatment center, leaped from a window of the third-floor apartment on East Third Street at around 5 p.m., according to the sources.
Her bloodied body lay in the back yard of the six-story walk-up building.
The victim was staying at Harbour’s home while the actor was in Canada, the sources said.

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Woman leaps to death from actor David Harbour’s apartment
By Melkorka Licea, Larry Celona and Joe Tacopino
New York Post
September 15, 2015 | 1:59am