Model Jasmine Fiore, reality TV personality Ryan Alexander Jenkins sought stardom, met bitter end

Ryan Jenkins and Jasmine Fiores marriage was never a fairy tale romance. But no one could have predicted the toxic relationship between a 28 year old swimsuit model and the 32 year old reality show contestant would end the way it did Sunday night, when his lifeless body was discovered in a small town Canadian motel.

Picture of Model Jasmine Fiore, reality TV personality Ryan Alexander Jenkins sought stardom, met bitter end [source:celebritymound.com]

Jenkins was the prime suspect in his ex wifes murder after her mutilated body was found stuffed in a suitcase on Aug. 15. But his death, apparently a suicide, isnt helping Fiores family or friends deal with her murder.

As Fiores former fianc, Travis Heinrich, told Us Weekly yesterday, he feels bittersweet about Jenkins death.

On one hand, Im happy hes dead, says Heinrich of Jenkins, who married Fiore on March 18. But on the other hand, Im pissed he wont have to answer for what he did. Im frustrated that there are still so many unanswered questions.

Heinrich isnt alone. Yesterday Jenkins bewildered father, Dan, admitted he still cant accept that his son could have been responsible for the grisly killing of Fiore.

If my son was guilty, he was crazy. He was not the boy we knew. The boy we knew was not capable of anything remotely close to this act, Jenkins, a prominent Calgary architect, told the Calgary Times.

You talk to everyone here who knew him before he went down there and theyll talk about a wonderful young man, a thoughtful man.

There was, of course, Vegas, the city of cheesy glamour where Fiore and Ryan hooked up, and quickly married, in March.

Initially it seemed like a good match. She was an aspiring actress and model who had traveled to Sin City with dreams of making it into the big time. Instead, Fiore found herself landing low level gigs like dealing cards at the Palms Playboy Club or working as a cocktail waitress in the MGM Grand which could be why she was so dazzled by a guy like Jenkins.

Described by his friends as confident, polished and ambitious, Jenkins was believed to be a real estate developer by some and an investment banker by others.

His goal in life, however, appears to have been making it as a celebrity. He loved being a player on the reality TV scene, a passion that struck his mother in law, Lisa Lepore, as unrealistic.

He had stars in his eyes, Lepore said yesterday. He was totally jazzed, like, being a star.

The couples on again, off again marriage, his father said, was far from heavenly.

It was hell on Earth I advised him 50 times to get out of that relationship, Dan Jenkins said Monday.

She would take off for days at a time and lie, and Ryan was lonely and distraught and alone down there. She was his only friend, and shed just disappear.

Dan Jenkins also played down reports that his son exhibited violent behavior toward his wife in April, when Ryan was arrested on a charge of domestic violence after allegedly slugging Fiore in the arm.

He turns around and his wifes kissing another guy, and he grabs her hand and starts walking away, and theyre arguing and he just pushes her in the pool, he said, dismissing the notion that his son had a violent past. People push each other in the pool every Saturday afternoon, and he goes to jail for two days thats ridiculous.

His account signals the start of a desperate media fight to defend the public images of the two tragic figures a battle that is bound to intensify as the two families square off against each other.

For its part, VH1 has canceled both reality shows Jenkins appeared in the trashy dating competition Megan Wants a Millionaire and I Love Money 3 ensuring that he will never achieve the Hollywood attention he so desperately sought.

But in the most bitter irony, Fiores murder and Ryans apparent suicide have made each of them a household name. Thats probably more fame than they could ever have imagined.[source:celebritymound.com]