{"id":2849,"date":"2019-05-16T22:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T02:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2019-05-16T22:09:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T02:09:02","slug":"former-wwe-wrestler-ashley-massaro-dies-at-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/2019\/05\/16\/former-wwe-wrestler-ashley-massaro-dies-at-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Former WWE wrestler Ashley Massaro dies at 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/files\/2019\/05\/img_2427.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2847\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2019\/05\/img_2427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2019\/05\/img_2427-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former WWE wrestler Ashley Massaro passed away Thursday morning. Massaro was 39.<\/p>\n<p>Massaro was taken from her Long Island home Thursday morning around 5:30 am to a hospital where she passed away. TMZ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/amp.tmz.com\/2019\/05\/16\/ashley-massaro-wwe-superstar-dead-at-39\/\">reports<\/a> her cause of death is not known but it&#8217;s not believed to be criminal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; font-size: 1.154em; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: YahooSans,\" helvetica neue arial sans-serif font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>Massaro won the &#8220;2005 Raw Diva Search&#8221; and later won the WWR Women&#8217;s Championship besting Melina at Wrestlemania 23. Her WWE career spanned from 2005-2008 and also included a brief stint on &#8220;Survivor: China.&#8221; Massaro&#8217;s WWE career cane to an end after her daughter Alexis became sick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; font-size: 1.154em; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: YahooSans,\" helvetica neue arial sans-serif font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>In 2007 Massaro appeared on the cover of Playboy and posed nude in the magazine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; font-size: 1.154em; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: YahooSans,\" helvetica neue arial sans-serif font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/files\/2019\/05\/img_2428.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2848\" width=\"369\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2019\/05\/img_2428.jpg 369w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2019\/05\/img_2428-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; font-size: 1.154em; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: YahooSans,\" helvetica neue arial sans-serif font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>WWE released a statement on Massaro&#8217;s passing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; font-size: 1.154em; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: YahooSans,\" helvetica neue arial sans-serif font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>\u201cWe are saddened to learn of the tragic death of former WWE Superstar Ashley Massaro. &#8220;She performed in WWE from 2005-2008 and was beloved by her fellow Superstars and fans around the world. WWE offers its condolences to Ashley\u2019s family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former WWE wrestler Ashley Massaro passed away Thursday morning. Massaro was 39. Massaro was taken from her Long Island home Thursday morning around 5:30 am to a hospital where she passed away. TMZ reports her cause of death is not known but it&#8217;s not believed to be criminal. Massaro won the &#8220;2005 Raw Diva Search&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[55,24,25],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-2849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-wwe-topstory","9":"tag-ashley-massaro","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-wwe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}