Paul Zolezzi

Paul Zolezzi, 30, committed suicide by hanging himself in a park behind the Brooklyn Museum Friday morning. He left a suicide note in an unusual place: his Facebook profile. His body was found hanging from the monkey bars in Mount Prospect Park playground near the Brooklyn Museum at around 7 AM. Paul Zolezzi was an aspiring model. He was troubled by heroin addiction, but also, according to his mother, Stephanie Zolezzi, by a broken engagement two years ago.

An aspiring model struggling with heroin addiction hanged himself in a Brooklyn park early Friday - after forecasting his suicide on Facebook. A jogger discovered the body of Paul Zolezzi, 30, dangling from the monkey bars in the Mount Prospect Park playground near the Brooklyn Museum about 7 a.m., police said. Hours earlier, Zolezzi had updated his Facebook status as an apparent suicide note, saying he was "born in San Francisco, became a shooting star over everywhere, and ended his life in Brooklyn... And couldn't have asked for more."

Paul Zolezzi also lived most of his life without his father, who jumped to his death from the Golden Gate Bridge when Zolezzi was 8 years old. His mother, who still lives in San Francisco, added. "I think he grew up with a hole inside his heart, a void because it was difficult to grow up without a father." A friend didn’t take the his suicide note seriously, posting in reply to the status message: "Are you dying? or just staying brooklyn? I hope its the latter."