40th-floor death drop
A 44-YEAR-OLD woman jumped to her death Sunday morning from a friend’s 40th-floor Upper East Side apartment, cops said.
Stephanie D’Aramon dangled for a few moments before dropping from the balcony of the high-rise on 72nd St. near FDR Drive about 10:20 a.m., witnesses and police said.
Cops got several 911 calls from frantic witnesses who saw the woman climb over a balcony railing just before the tragedy.
Neighbors said D’Aramon, who is French, was house-sitting for the president of Nespresso USA, Guillaume Le Cunff.
“She was house-sitting for a friend who is in the Hamptons right now,” said a neighbor who declined to give her name.
D’Aramon didn’t live far from where she died, and tenants who lived on the same floor of the 81st St. building said police had knocked at her door on Saturday.
“They were looking for her yesterday,” said the neighbor, who said D’Aramon lived there with her husband and two children.
“They said, ‘We are looking for her.’ That’s it.”
Edye Jeda, 56, who lives across from Le Cunff’s apartment, said her neighbor tried to prevent the death.
“She called my concierge and said, ‘Run, run, somebody from that building is jumping,’ ” she said.
“She landed on the sundeck. By the time my concierge got there, she had fallen,” Jeda added.
“It happened in a matter of seconds.”
Neighbors on 81st St. said D’Aramon had a son and a daughter.