Report: Tila Tequila Wanted for Questioning in Heiress Casey Johnson's Death
Photo: Casey Johnson, left, and reality star Tila Tequila.
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According to Fox News, Los Angeles investigators want to talk to Tequila, who was reportedly the last person to see or hear from Johnson.
Her body was found Jan. 4 by a maid in her West Hollywood home. Police are not yet sure how long the 30-year-old Johnson was dead before she was found.
Photo: Casey Johnson.
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Jasmine Lennard, a fashion model, who once dated the heiress, called her a "fragile, beautiful, witty, wonderful girl who was desperately looking for love," in an interview with celebrity site RadarOnline.
Lennard told the site that she is angry at Tequila who she feels got close to Johnson at a particularly difficult point in her life and was a negative influence.
Photo: Casey Johnson and Tila Tequila.
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"Tila got a hold of her and said, 'hey, come out with me and we'll show them!' For her to die with this reputation, it's just not her. Tila is a sick, sick girl," Lennard told RadarOnline.com.
"Everyone who crosses her path suffers consequences," she said of Tequila.
Lennard previously accused Johnson of stealing $22,000 in lingerie, mail, jewelry and other items from her apartment.
Photo: Casey Johnson in West Hollywood, Calif., Aug. 14, 2008.
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Johnson pleaded not guilty last month to burglary and receiving stolen property, and had a preliminary hearing scheduled on Feb. 2, district attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison said.
"Did I love her? Yes. I tried so hard to save her but I couldn't," said Johnson's ex-girlfriend Lennard to Radar.
"Casey's family tried desperately to help her," Lennard said. "There was a car ready 24 hours a day to take her to the best rehab facility in the country. When it came out that Casey had been arrested, she had nobody and was lost."
Enter Tila Tequila.
Johnson and Tequila used to "hate each other" but became attracted to each other in early December because they were "going through the same stuff," according the pair's Twitter accounts.
On December 7th, the couple went online and announced their engagement. Tequila flashed a purported 17-carat diamond ring from her "baby," and the two moved in together.
It is not clear the last time Tequila saw Johnson alive.
What is clear is that the bisexual reality star issued a series of conflicting tweets on Monday, first announcing the news of Johnson's death, before announcing that her fiancée was actually not dead, just comatose.
Law enforcement plans to interview Tequila, Fox News is reporting.
Johnson, whose father is New York Jets owner Robert "Woody" Johnson, was found dead in her Los Angeles home on Monday. An autopsy conducted Tuesday was inconclusive and the cause of her death was deferred pending results of toxicology tests, which could take a month or more.
Johnson's body will be flown east for a private funeral, a family spokesman said Wednesday, and she will be laid to rest later this week in a service attended by immediate family.
Johnson had been an insulin-dependent diabetic since childhood but it was not immediately clear whether that contributed to her death. A memorial fund in her name was set up with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Johnson, dubbed the "baby-oil heiress" by the New York Post, lived her life on the tabloid pages. She partied with high school friend and fellow heiress Paris Hilton, and then came last month's announcement that she was "engaged" to Tila Tequila.
She is survived by her parents, two younger sisters, and an adopted child she named Ava-Monroe, after her idol, Marilyn Monroe.
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