On the evening of May 17, 2018, Adams with her 7-year-old son Vincent checked into a 25th-floor penthouse in the Gotham Hotel on 46th Street in Manhattan. The next morning, both were found dead on a second-floor balcony in the hotel's rear courtyard. According to law enforcement officials, Adams and her husband were involved in a custody battle, and hours before checking into the hotel, Adams told the New York Post that her husband and his lawyer were preventing her from taking her son on vacation. Adams pushed her son off the 25th floor and committed suicide by jumping. The death of the child was ruled a homicide and the death of the mother a suicide.
