A beautiful Upper West Side woman boating with her businessman husband in the Hamptons mysteriously fell overboard in the middle of the night and drowned yesterday, authorities said.
Ninive Petrocelli, 39, was wearing a red summer dress but no life jacket when she was reported missing from the 45-foot vessel In the Clutch around midnight, officials said.
Her husband, John Petrocelli, 54, told authorities he hadn't seen his wife of four years fall into the water but heard splashing and screams as the boat was anchored in the darkness about two miles off of Long Island's eastern tip in Block Island Sound.
John Petrocelli — who lived with Ninive in a posh Central Park West apartment and co-owns a construction company in Palisades Park, NJ — told cops he frantically threw about 10 life jackets in the direction of her screams and then radioed the Coast Guard on a marine frequency.
Ninive's body was spotted 12 hours later, floating in the water about five miles south of where she vanished.
Suffolk County homicide detectives were called into the investigation by evening because of questions about what happened, a law-enforcement source said, declining to elaborate.
As the Coast Guard was still searching for Ninive off Montauk Point in the morning, her husband called his family to relay the frightening news.
"We can't find her," said a hyperventilating Petrocelli to one of his four adult sons from his first marriage, according to a relative. "She fell off the boat. We can't find her anywhere. She's missing."
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