TMZ has reported that Casey Johnson, the Johnson & Johnson heiress and fiancée of Tila Tequila, has died. Causes are still unknown. I first became familiar with the young party girl when I reported a story on her for W magazine … I got to know about the socialite who was making headlines (usually not for the right reasons) and cavorting around Hollywood with friends like Paris Hilton. The sweet dimple-faced girl had plenty of demons – she spent time in rehab, was charged with burglary and had tumultuous lesbian relationships that were frequent tabloid fodder. (An ex set her hair on fire!)
The 30-year-old leaves behind a daughter, Ava, who she adopted in 2007. Ava has been living with Casey’s mother, Sale, in New York. Friends were often concerned about the heiress’s lifestyle – saying that she was living in a Grey Gardens-esque squalor in her Hollywood Hills home. Sadly, it’s another wasted life – one of privilege that took a path to destruction…it’s a good reminder to be thankful for what you have and take care of those who are a little lost.
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Such a good reminder that no one has it easy, we are all fighting our own different fights, just in different ways.
So tragic. Thanks for this, Meg.
We are all fighting, I agree. But more often than not it appears that the very privileged seem to create the demons in which they end up fighting and sadly;often lose the battle!!! not that the not-so-privileged don’t create thier own problems and/or demons….it’s just that they aren’t high profile enough ormore likely(no one is around who cares about these other lives lost becauce they aren’t A-listers or hieresses,etc,etc…. Now that is SAD!