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Re: Model Murdered By VH1 Dating Show Contest/Ex-Husband?
As some of you know, I hate "reality" shows with a passion. You couldn't pay me to watch them. I have always looked forward to the day that this fad dies, and I remember joking here(or the old site) about how murder would probably be the only thing that could trigger a backlash.
Well, one just happened. Will be interesting to see how this story plays out. Its time for the networks to reign this shit in, and the public once again needs to take a second look at what they condone. This insatiable quest to achieve fame at all costs even though you've done nothing needs to stop.
It began with the remains of a woman found stuffed into a suitcase left in a Buena Park dumpster on Saturday. Two days later, authorities made the connection between the corpse and the case of a missing model who had moved here recently from Las Vegas, Jasmine Fiore, a former stripper and current Playboy representative.
But Fiore's ex-husband's face has also been on people's computers and TV screens, since Ryan Alexander Jenkins was currently being seen as one of the wealthy lovelorn on VH1's Megan Wants a Millionaire. Don't try to look up the Calgary-born contestant's bio on their site, though--VH1 has already removed it (attributing the show's removal from the site to "redesign"), explains Defamer, adding that in the blurb Jenkins, (show nickname: The Smooth Operator) an investment banker, "boasts that he 'has left many amazing women in his life primarily because he wanted more women,' and that 'the only time he cheated on his ex was when he wanted to break up with her.'" Fiore and Jenkins reportedly met in Vegas following the filming of the show and married after a whirlwind 2-day courtship.
So is Jenkins' reality destined to be more like an episode of COPS than The Bachelor? Jenkins, who speaks through his publicist, "says that he will cooperate fully with police investigating the murder, even though authorities believe he may be attempting to flee to Canada, his home country. Authorities also say that it was Jenkins who reported Fiore missing on Saturday morning. He then disappeared completely." Police are now calling Jenkins a "person of interest" in Fiore's murder.
Re: Model Murdered By VH1 Dating Show Contest/Ex-Husband?
This isn't linked enough to the show to cause a backlash. The only link is he was a contestant. That's it. Now if he had murdered a contestant on the show or someone linked to the show maybe. Either way murder is always tragic. My thoughts to her family.
Re: Model Murdered By VH1 Dating Show Contest/Ex-Husband?
I've seen bits and pieces of that Megan wants to Marry A Millionaire show but I can't place this guy. I wonder if he's still on the show or if he's been voted out yet and if he is on will VH1 air those episodes featuring a potential murderer?
I agree with Axl S though, this really has nothing to do with the reality show itself. With ALL the reality shows out there you were bound to come up with someone with a checkered past somewhere along the lines. I'm still waiting for something tragic like this to happen ON the show itself. Maybe not murder per se, but freak accidents. Actually you had that guy in the one season of Survivor who fell into the fire and suffered severe burns. And you had Ozzy fall off his ATV and break his shoulder. Luckily nothing tragic yet. But it's coming, I'm sure.
Re: Model Murdered By VH1 Dating Show Contest/Ex-Husband?
Yeah, man what a sick indidual he was.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/23/cal … index.html
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a reality TV contestant suspected in his wife's slaying in California, was found dead in a hotel room in British Columbia, Canadian and U.S. authorities said Sunday.
Hotel staff in the town of Hope found Jenkins' body, and preliminary evidence indicates that Jenkins committed suicide, Sgt. Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told reporters late Sunday.
Jenkins was found in the hotel room, dead by hanging, said Farrah Emami, spokeswoman for the district attorney in Orange County, California.
No other details about Jenkins' death were immediately released.
Earlier Sunday, Canadian authorities said they had credible information that Jenkins was in Canada and called on him to turn himself in. He was believed to be armed and dangerous.
The nude body of Jenkins' wife, former swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore, was found last weekend in Orange County, California. CNN has not confirmed reports that the marriage was annulled.
Fiore's body was found last Saturday in a Dumpster behind an apartment complex in Buena Park, just outside Anaheim, California. Her teeth had been extracted and fingers removed in what police said was an apparent attempt to conceal her identity.
Law enforcement sources have told CNN that Fiore was identified through the serial numbers on her breast implants.
Fiore lived in Los Angeles and was last seen alive in San Diego at a poker game with Jenkins, the night before the body was found.
Jenkins reported Fiore missing last Saturday night to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, authorities said.
The body was identified Monday as Fiore. While the cause of death had not been confirmed, a preliminary coroner's report indicated she was strangled.
According to court records in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jenkins was charged in June with battery for allegedly striking Fiore in the arm with his fist.
And in 2007, Jenkins pleaded guilty in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to assault in a separate case. He was sentenced to 15 months probation, ordered to undergo counseling for domestic violence and sex addiction and to stay away from the person involved, according to court records.
Jenkins, who appeared on the VH1 show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," is from Calgary.
51Minds, which produced "Megan Wants a Millionaire," said Thursday in a written statement that it "was not aware of Ryan Jenkins' record when it cast him.
"The company did have in place what it thought was a thorough vetting process that involved complete background checks by an outside company for all contestants on its shows," it said. "Clearly, the process did not work properly in this case. 51 Minds is investigating what went wrong and taking steps to ensure that this sort of lapse never occurs again."
