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The 17-year-old daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand accidentally fell to her death from a midtown high-rise early Friday after partying at a posh Manhattan nightclub, police said.

A man waiting in line for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride at Disney's California Adventure Park fell 25 to 30 feet Wednesday night, according to Anaheim police.

The actor son of legendary mobster Mickey Spillane plunged to his death from the sixth floor of his Hells Kitchen apartment in what appears to be a tragic accident Saturday, sources said.

Police said a 30-year-old woman apparently fell out of a third-story window, landed on her parked car, and then walked into a neighbor's house, where she fell asleep on a couch for two hours. Lakemoor Police Chief Mike Marchese said family members believe the woman woke up before dawn Thursday and fell through the screen while opening a third-floor window.

Authorities say a 21-year-old man has plunged to his death in an apparent suicide jump off the Empire State Building during the evening rush hour.

Chinese worker Sun Danyong was responsible for handling the prototypes of one of the world's hottest products — the iPhone. When one of the gadgets went missing and his company began investigating him, he jumped off his apartment building and killed himself.

A Wisconsin window washer survived a six-story fall from a bank building, after his safety rope never caught.