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

John plunged from the 25th story window of the Herald Square Towers on W. 34th St. about 4:15 a.m., landing on the building's third-floor overhang, police said.

The teen, whose father Eric John was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand in 2007, had been carousing at Tenjune on Little West 12th St. before heading to the apartment about 2:15 a.m. for a nightcap, police said.

"They'd been drinking," said Robert Pena, the building engineer at the Herald Square Towers, who saw the pack of partygoers walking through the building's lobby just before 4 a.m.

"They'd invited some other people back from a club," Pena said.

About 10 people were inside when Nicole John took off her shoes, climbed out of the window onto a ledge and plunged to her death, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

A witness from an adjacent building saw John fall and called cops, Kelly said.

By the time officers arrived, the apartment had been completely cleaned up, he added.

Investigators found a small camera beside her body, leading them to believe that she climbed outside to take a picture.

John, who recently graduated from the International School in Bangkok, had a fake Brazilian ID, suggesting she was 23 or 24.

Sources said Ilan Nassimi, 25, who was hosting the late night party in his apartment, was charged with unlawful dealing with a child for handing out to booze to someone under the age of 21.

John had just recently graduated from the International School in Bangkok and was set to begin classes at Parsons School of Design this fall, according to her blog.



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