In the death of a webcam performer who fell 80 feet from an eighth-floor balcony in Thailand, an American man has been charged alongside a Russian model and another tourist.
For the death of Evgenia Smirnova, 37, American Jamaal Smith, 38, Russian model Natalia Kosenkova, 35, and Jordanian male Ahmad Alatoom, 28, face up to ten years in prison.
After attending the party in Patong where Smirnova died, they were charged with’ recklessness causing death.’
Smirnova was discovered facedown in her underpants with fatal head injuries and a fractured leg after plunging from an eighth-floor fire exit during a sex party in Phuket last weekend.
The medical examiner’s report said she had a high level of alcohol in her blood, the Bangkok Post reported.
The webcam performer’s death was first thought accidental, but a clump of someone else’s hair was found in her hand, raising suspicions of foul play.
Alatoom was held after seeking to board a flight out of Thailand following Smirnova’s death.
The three suspects were previously held on charges of drugs possession.
Kosenkova said she didn’t ‘want to think about her’ because it is ‘very stressful for us.’
‘Our life is ruined,’ she said. ‘I am very sorry, very sorrowful. But I don’t want to keep anything in my memory about her.
‘It’s too bad, but I’m thinking about my life.’
Local reports, quoting police sources, revealed a ‘sex, drugs and alcohol party’ took place at the Emerald Terrace condo complex in Patong before Evgenia’s fall.
Evgenia died at the Emerald Terrace condominium complex in Phuket, Thailand.
Officers considered three options, according to Major General Sermphan Sirikhon: an accident, suicide, or murder.
The clump of hair found in the victim’s hand was tested for DNA, but the results were not made public.
Kosenkova, a model, DJ, and dental assistant, initially described her death as a “unfortunate accident.”
‘The only thing I can say is that this was an unfortunate incident, but it was not a murder, and none of the people involved are to blame,’ she said, according to the New York Post.
She also claimed she didn’t ‘know’ the woman ‘until that evening.’
‘I didn’t know the girl, she just came to the party where we were,’ she said, according to the New York Post. ‘And she called her friend [Alatoom], who came, too, and behaved inappropriately. I can say that me and my friend [Smith], who I have known for a long time, behaved with dignity and decency.’
‘None of the people involved are to blame. I’m an ordinary tourist.
‘It was a regular boozefest – someone dies here every day.’
Kosenkova said authorities ‘trust’ them and she wasn’t ‘worried.’
On the site, condom wrappers and finely ground cannabis were discovered.
Smirnova was born in Nizhny Novgorod, in western Russia, and lived in Moscow.
The investigation is still going on.