27 Year Old Citigroup Banker Allegedly Jumped to Her Death from Trump Palace in New York City
December 22nd, 2010From Donald Trump Counting Sheep:
As a reader wrote to me recently, “It’s the little things…”
Via: The Hoya:
Jessica Fashano (MSB ’05) shocked much of the New York financial world Saturday when she allegedly threw herself off of the Trump Palace in New York City. According to the New York Police Department, there is no evidence of foul play in the death of the 27-year-old alumna who worked as an investment banking associate at Citi Global Market.
Many members of the Georgetown community are mourning Fashano’s death, according to a statement released by McDonough School of Business Dean Norean Sharpe.
“Jessica will be greatly missed by all of the Georgetown faculty and her former business school classmates. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jessica’s family and many friends during this difficult time,” Sharpe said.
A Whippany, N.J., native who kept in touch with her college friends, Fashano graduated from Georgetown magna cum laude with finance and international business majors and a Spanish minor, according to Business Insider.
From surveillance video of the scene, officials determined that Fashano arrived at Trump Palace, 16 blocks away from her New York apartment, early on Saturday morning. A resident rode with her in the elevator to the top of the Trump Palace, and said that Fashano was alert and aware at the time.
Fashano had asked the resident how to get to the roof, which contains views of the Hudson River and New Jersey.
Close friend and fellow 2005 graduate Michelle Javian was supposed to meet Fashano for brunch that Saturday morning.
“She just had everything someone could want to be successful,” Javian told The New York Times. “She was always the leader, had everything organized,” Javian added.
Fashano was taking depression medication, according to the police, but Javian said she talked to her daily. “It’s like something just changed overnight … .Something just snapped, and we don’t know,” she told the Times.
According to her peers, Fashano shined at her job. Associates described her as always working hard and giving her best effort, and she was featured in a corporate video about the company.
It’s a shame to lose one who is so young. If she was a crook, and it all fell apart, I can understand why she jumped.
Could she have been driven to jump? Maybe she was dangerous to the Vampire Squid?
People in that industry are generally faced with a choice: total compromise (physical, ethical, mental), or get out. I don’t know what happened here, but there is definitely a range of genuinely disturbing possibilities.
“Fashano was taking depression medication . . . . ”
Perhaps the depression medication caused the depression.
“Fashano was taking depression medication …”
There appears to be a link between antidepressant use and suicide. Been hearing about it for years:
http://www.doctorslounge.com/pharmacy/articles/antidepressants_suicide/
I wanted to see a devil in the details here but sometimes people, no matter what they do, where they work, get depressed and commit suicide…the fact she worked at C seems coincidental…heck, I don’t have to do anything I am ashamed of to make a living and thoughts of suicide occasionally pierce my psyche, just because, and I don’t take any psycho-meds, other than recreationally…
Nice 911 spotting, Kev.
@ kevin:
total compromise is an understatement: the job becomes your life, rather like a parasite … the changes are insidious at first, in the end, all-consuming.
I had 4 people on my desk kill themselves before I got out.
as for the link between anti-depressants and suicide, let me tell a brief story:
One of my closest friends, who is a beautiful, bouncy, happy sort of person lost her father three years ago in a car wreck. As is now apparently normal on such occasions, she was proscribed prozac for her depression (didn’t it used to be called mourning ?) she later told me, after she got off the stuff, that one time she was sitting in her home and happened to idly think about what it would be like to kill herself. She told me she felt utterly cold about it, as if it were nothing at all .. an intellectual exercise, perhaps. But a mere trifle. Her 2-year-old son crying broke her thoughts. She described to me a feeling of absolute terror. She discontinued use immediately and felt like herself again in a few days.
It’s merely apocryphal evidence, but eerily similar to me.
I wonder if the same cool, dispassionate curiosity drove this girl.
In my opinion, there is not enough focus paid to the mental and physical strain put on young bankers by management. I am so glad to be gone.
-cybele
@cybele
Have you ever thought about writing it all down? What went on in that thing? What was expected… You know.