An 11-year-old girl has been orphaned after her father, who had shared the difficulties of dating as a single, middle-aged man, died during an encounter with a prostitute in a Las Vegas hotel.
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Indica Higley faces life without either of her parents in the wake of her father Seneca Higley's death at Caesar's Palace in February 2024 aged 46.
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Her mother Gretchen Bloemen passed away of unspecified causes in October 2023, five months after she divorced Seneca and remarried.
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Heidi Warner, the sex worker who gave Seneca the fentanyl-laced Percocet pill that killed him during a hotel room tryst, was jailed for between three and eight years last week.
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Warner, 25, told a court in Vegas how Seneca had spoken fondly of his beloved daughter, with the devoted dad frequently sharing his pride at the youngster on his Facebook profile.
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In a Facebook post shortly after Gretchen's death, he wrote it 'kills me to see my daughter have to grow without the love and support of a mother.
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'I feel Indy’s pain so deeply it hurts,' Higley wrote in a post, alongside a picture of himself and Gretchen one 'one of the best days we had together.'
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Higley's family said he had previously struggled with addiction and substance abuse, but had been sober for some time before he procured drugs from Warner on his fateful final trip to Las Vegas.
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Seneca Higley, 46, a Utah man who complained of struggling with the death of his wife and helping his daughter (above) through their grief, overdosed on a pill given to him by a Las Vegas prostitute just months later in January 2024.
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Higley's wife Gretchen Bloemen died in October 2023, just months before Higley died from an overdose after taking a fentanyl-laced pill.
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Source: Seneca Higley/Instagram
Las Vegas Heidi Warner, 25, was sentenced to up to eight years in prison after she pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, as she admitted to giving Higley a fentanyl-laced Percocet
At Warner's sentencing, the 25-year-old told the court that she knew Higley to be a warm-hearted person who loved his daughter deeply.
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She said she had fallen into sex work when her own father died, but her attorney insisted she was 'not a drug dealer' and had only procured drugs for Higley at his request.
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Her attorney said she did not know the Percocet pills she gave Higley contained Fentanyl, but Warner said in a statement to the court that she understood his death 'is not a situation that you can take back.'
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Higley's death in his Las Vegas hotel room marked a tragic end for the 46-year-old just months after the passing of his wife and mother of his child.
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The father had separated from Gretchen at the time she passed away in October 2023, according to her obituary, but Higley said his family were devastated by her death.
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Higley's daughter Indica has been orphaned following the tragic deaths of her parents.
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Higley's death in his Las Vegas hotel room marked a tragic end for the 46-year-old just months after the passing of his wife and mother of his child.
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Higley was found dead in his hotel room at Las Vegas's Caesars Palace in January 2024
Just a month before he overdosed, Higley shared pictures to social media from a trip he took his young daughter on to California, which he said was to help 'get her mind off the death of her mother.
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'When I think about the last few years and everything we’ve been through, it confirms my belief in a higher power and my true purpose in this life.
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It’s no longer about me,' Higley wrote.
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'I’m so incredibly proud of this little girl and can’t believe how fast she has had to grow up and more important, how she has handled everything.'
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Higley added that he was taking his daughter to see homeless encampments in Skid Row 'to show the harsh reality of where your life can go if you go down the wrong path.'
'Then take a turn to Beverly Hills to show her that if she continues to study and work hard what she can have,' he added.
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Higley had also shared his frustration at dating again following his wife's death, as he said on social media that was a 'hopeless romantic that has been taken advantage of too many times.
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'I’m not perfect but I guarantee I'm a real, empathetic person that really wants to create a family for myself but more for my daughter because she deserves that,' Higley wrote.
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'I really don’t want to be 60, by myself, with no one to enjoy life with..
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It would be nice to feel love again.'
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