Las Vegas Weekly

August 19, 2009 · 8:24 AM

Manhunt on for reality TV millionaire linked to murdered Las Vegas dancer

By Robin Leach

The cast of VH1's Megan Wants a Millionaire.

Photo: VH1.com

California police have an international alert out this morning for a self-described investment banker from Calgary, Alberta, after the murder of his exotic blonde Las Vegas dancer girlfriend. Stunning swimsuit beauty Jasmine Fiore, 28, was found naked and dead inside a suitcase tossed in a dumpster over the weekend in L.A.

Canadian citizen Ryan Alexander Jenkins, 32, who recently appeared as a contestant on the new VH1 series Megan Wants a Millionaire, originally reported the former Playboy model missing but has subsequently vanished and is now wanted by police who say he is a person of interest in the case.

Jasmine was well known here in Las Vegas working as a model, dancer and convention exhibit hostess. I met her once at a luxurious all-white party promoting real estate sales held at a lavish estate in the Red Rock Country Club estates hosted by Bob and Jill Barnhart.

Some initial reports say that Ryan met Jasmine here in a strip club. Another report says they may also have had a runaway Vegas marriage, although there has been no other confirmation of that claim.

On the VH1 series, Ryan said his net worth exceeded $1 million and that he was one of several monied moguls competing for Megan’s affection to become his trophy wife. Megan appeared at Jet in The Mirage two weeks ago and told me that she’d been really happy taking part in the show. She revealed that it turned out very well for her and that she will become a proud trophy wife of one mega-rich contestant.

Lt. Gary Worrall of L.A.’s Buena Park District Police, said: “He reported her missing on Saturday evening.” But Ryan disappeared after making the report, police said. They confirmed that Jasmine had been strangled to death. Her body was discovered by a man rifling through a garbage dumpster for recyclable bottles and cans.

Vegas DeLuxe will continue to monitor this developing story.

Updated 2:02 p.m.: An urgent text message from murdered model Jasmine Fiore to her previous Las Vegas boyfriend may have triggered her brutal death.

I’ve learned that she had been dating a wealthy Las Vegas real estate executive for several months before meeting the reality show millionaire turned suspect. Jasmine and her Vegas beau had been seen all over town in his Lamborghini and were “happy in love” regulars at several Strip restaurants and nightclubs.

Unknown as yet is why they broke up and on a sudden whim she went to Los Angeles with Ryan. However, last Thursday, Jasmine sent a text to him saying she’d made a mistake and wanted to return to him here. He texted back that all was forgiven and that she should come home.

Jasmine was not heard from again. Her body was found stuffed in a suitcase early Sunday in a dumpster. Police now have an international manhunt underway for Ryan, who described himself as a millionaire banker from Calgary.

Meantime, her agent, Ken Henderson, president of Best Models here, told me: “She was a hard-working, reliable and conscientious person. We worked with her many times, and everybody liked her. We never had problems. Jasmine was very diligent and disciplined and really enjoyed her assignments. We are mystified how these reports of her working in a strip club and getting married came from nowhere. That just wasn’t her in any sense.”

Ken said he signed her to the agency after I’d introduced them at the all-white party thrown by realtors Bob and Jill Barnhart at their mansion in the Red Rock Estates development. This afternoon, Ken is flying to New York for a live appearance about the story with Matt Lauer on tomorrow morning’s Today show on NBC. He is then set for a half-hour appearance with CNN’s Nancy Grace for her primetime show tomorrow.

“I have been deluged with calls about Jasmine,” Ken told me. “It’s all quite unbelievable and such a sad tragedy. She was always full of life and happy. The murder has suddenly become the biggest news story of the month.”

Updated 2:26 p.m.: We have now confirmed that Jasmine had been living here in Las Vegas at investment broker Robert Hasman’s home. He is a partner at the Sperry Van Ness brokerage firm.

After they split, she did in fact, using her real name of Jasmine Kinkaid, marry Ryan on March 18 this year in downtown Las Vegas.

We also have learned that Ryan has a criminal record from 2007 for assaulting an ex-girlfriend.

His Web site where he was listed as CEO of Sky Homes was still live at lunchtime today, but the office in Calgary said he’d left in April after completing the filming of the VH1 reality series and relocated to Los Angeles.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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