to use drugs, smoking cannabis in his bedroom as his parents tried to help him recover. Eventually, Rubinstein left his parents' home and moved back to the Lower East Side. By then, between the assault and his continued drug use, he was no longer as energetic, and had become dishevelled. Many of his friends from the punk scene no longer associated with him. Rubinstein began dating Tiffany Bresciani, a prostitute who worked on Houston Street and danced in strip clubs around the city. He had told his parents that she was a dancer. Bresciani financially supported the couple and their drug habit with prostitution. Rubinstein often waited for Bresciani while she serviced a customer, and then accompanied her to buy drugs. On June 24, 1993, Rubinstein and Bresciani were waiting on Allen Street when a familiar customer pulled up in a Mazda pickup truck. Bresciani got in, telling Rubinstein that she would return in 20 minutes. She never came back. Rubinstein called the police with a description of the truck. He went to the club where Bresciani danced, and all the hospital emergency rooms in the city, searching for her. A few days later, on June 28, two New York state troopers were patrolling Long Island's Southern State Parkway when they pulled over the truck after a low-speed chase, and found Bresciani's decaying body in the back. They arrested the driver, Joel Rifkin, one of Long Island's more infamous serial killers, who was linked to the murders of numerous women. On June 30, 1993, Rubinstein's mother died in a freak accident after being run over by a vehicle driven by his father. Depressed and alone after the unexpected loss of his girlfriend and mother, Rubinstein headed into a downward spiral, and on July 3, 1993, he committed suicide by drug overdose. References External links Reagan Youth page at New Red Archives site Reagan Youth at CDBaby Reagan Youth at LoveCatMusic Joel Rifkin at Crime Library Dave Insurgent at The Dead Rock Stars Club 1964 births 1993 suicides 20th-century American singers Jewish rock musicians American punk rock singers Anarcho-punk musicians Drug-related suicides in New York (state) Jews in punk rock Jewish American musicians Lobotomised people People from Queens, New York Singers from New York City Reagan Youth members 20th-century American male singers American anti-fascists Jewish anti-fascists Forest Hills High School (New York) alumni 1993 deaths 20th-century American Jews