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The plot thickens!<\/p>\n
One of the more surreal twists in the Dianna Russini saga came when \u2014 days after the NFL journalist resigned from the New York Times<\/a> over photographs we published<\/a> showing her holding hands with New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel \u2014 she was involved in a dramatic rescue of an elderly man who\u2019d got in a scary car accident.<\/p>\n But, like almost everything in the tale of Russini and Vrabel, things were not as simple as that.<\/p>\n Local cops confirmed to us that bystanders had indeed helped with the rescue before officers arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n When we ran the tipster\u2019s account by a source familiar with the incident, they confirmed her story \u2014 including the detail that she climbed onto the vehicle with the help of a passerby to rescue the driver \u2014 adding that Russini had been driving with her mother and kids when the accident happened right in front of them.<\/p>\n Stirring stuff!<\/p>\n But\u2026 then a second tipster reached us. And they told a strikingly different<\/em> story.<\/p>\n After we confirmed through public records that the second tipster was who they claimed to be \u2014 a fellow resident of Northern New Jersey \u2014 we interviewed them about the crash.<\/p>\n That tipster said that \u2014 while Russini had indeed come into the street to help with the crash \u2014 it was in fact the tipster\u2019s husband, not Russini, who had freed the driver and his dog by ripping open the canvas roof of the Jeep. The tipster added that Russini had merely held the dog\u2019s leash after the pet had been released from the wreckage. And she insisted that Russini most certainly had not scaled the car. (Sadly the alleged man of the hour declined to speak with us).<\/p>\n In search of the truth, the Post dispatched a reporter to the scene to see if we could finally suss out which version of events was the correct one, but we couldn\u2019t turn up any more details.<\/p>\n Just another confounding footnote in the epic that is Vrabelgate!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n