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The Dianna Russini story keeps getting more intriguing!
In a surprising development, just days after NFL reporter Dianna Russini left the New York Times following the publication of photos showing her with New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel, she found herself heroically involved in a rescue mission. The incident occurred when she aided an elderly man in distress after a frightening car accident.
However, as is often the case with the Russini and Vrabel narrative, the situation wasn’t as straightforward as it seemed.
On April 17, Page Six received information about a crash that happened two days earlier in Wyckoff, New Jersey, near Russini’s residence. Not only was she present at the scene, but she also courageously enlisted help from a bystander to lift her onto an overturned Jeep. Once there, she managed to open the door and assist both the injured driver and his trapped dog to safety.
Local authorities confirmed to us that bystanders played a crucial role in the rescue efforts until law enforcement arrived.
When we ran the tipster’s account by a source familiar with the incident, they confirmed her story — including the detail that she climbed onto the vehicle with the help of a passerby to rescue the driver — adding that Russini had been driving with her mother and kids when the accident happened right in front of them.
Stirring stuff!
But… then a second tipster reached us. And they told a strikingly different story.
After we confirmed through public records that the second tipster was who they claimed to be — a fellow resident of Northern New Jersey — we interviewed them about the crash.
That tipster said that — while Russini had indeed come into the street to help with the crash — it was in fact the tipster’s 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’s 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).
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’t turn up any more details.
Just another confounding footnote in the epic that is Vrabelgate!