A glamour model penned an emotional tribute to her boyfriend after he killed himself in the wake of his brother Pasquale Barbaro’s gangland murder.
Rossario Dom Barbaro, 30, committed suicide on June 3, six months after mafia enforcer Pasquale was gunned down in a Sydney street.
His girlfriend Parnia Porsche, a former member of The Candyman’s entourage, mourned her ‘best friend and soulmate’ alongside photos of them together.
Glamour model Parnia Porsche (R) penned an emotional tribute to her boyfriend Rossario Dom Barbaro (L) after he killed himself on June 3
The former member of The Candyman’s entourage mourned her ‘best friend and soulmate’
‘My heart. My soul. Everything I do from here on in will be to make you proud,’ she wrote on the day of his death
‘I will do my best to honour all your wishes but I know you will be guiding me. Rest In Paradise. Until I see and hear that cheeky smile/laugh again, until then I will learn how to live.’
The 22-year-old shared the order of service from his funeral on June 22 with another message promising to never let anyone forget him.
‘Today I had to see the only person I ever really loved be farewelled from this Earth, my heart breaks everyday for you, Rossario, ‘ she wrote.
‘I miss you so much, I can’t wait for the day I see you again… I held your hand through the pain next to you everyday for the past year then through hospital.
‘Now I hold your hand in my dreams, until we’re in the skies and I see you eye to eye.’
‘I will do my best to honour all your wishes but I know you will be guiding me. Rest In Paradise,’ she wrote alongside photos of them together
Rossario was the brother of slain mafia enforcer Pasquale Barbaro (pictured) who was gunned down in a Sydney gangland hit six months earlier
A month after his death, the Playboy and Maxim cover girl told the story of how she and Rossario first met and started dating months earlier.
‘He picked me up from my apartment I got in his car he drove me up the road and TOLD me I was his girlfriend now,’ she wrote.
Ms Porsche said his declaration came halfway through her explaining she couldn’t be with him because she didn’t want to ruin their friendship.
She recalled he told her: ‘”You don’t say no to me, you never say no to me, now gimme a kiss” while wearing his cap ‘on all funny’.
‘From that day forward, I was lucky to be by his side everyday, he wouldn’t let me go home,’ she wrote.
‘Not many people where lucky enough to see his soul and character the way I did, he had so much spirit and when you got past his bad side you couldn’t find a better human if you tried.’
The 22-year-old shared the order of service from his funeral on June 22 with another message promising to never let anyone forget him
‘I miss you so much, I can’t wait for the day I see you again… I held your hand through the pain next to you everyday for the past year then through hospital,’ she wrote
Ms Porsche said Possario was her soulmate and feared she would never find someone she would love as much as him.
‘The saddest part is a friendship like what we had, you can’t find again, you only get one like that. He gave me happiness without touching, that’s something you can’t replace,’ she wrote.
‘From a single facial expression I could give you a broken down explanation of exactly how he was feeling in that moment.’
‘It’s hard for me to accept he’s gone. I feel our story wasn’t finished, I feel robbed of a future husband, a future father to my children. I worry about growing old without him.’
Rossario’s family said he was so close to his brother he was known as ‘Pasquale’s shadow’ and was ‘devastated’ when he was assassinated.
A month after his death, the Playboy and Maxim cover girl told the story of how she and Rossario first met and started dating months earlier
‘He picked me up from my apartment I got in his car he drove me up the road and TOLD me I was his girlfriend now,’ she wrote
Ms Porsche said Possario was her soulmate and feared she would never find someone she would love as much as him
Their father and noted crime figure Giuseppe Barbaro claimed prescription medication Rossario was taking contributed to his death.
‘It’s not easy dealing with the death of two sons. I believe if Ross hadn’t taken those prescription pills he would never have taken his life,’ he told the Daily Telegraph.
Another source close to the family said ‘something snapped’ in the electrician, who was known as ‘Pasquale’s shadow’, after his brother’s murder.
‘He was lost and became very depressed, he was never himself again. He was Pasquale’s shadow and lived with his family in Leichhardt for about 10 years,’ they said.
‘The family is besieged by tragedy and drama, they could be in a movie, that’s for sure.’
‘I feel our story wasn’t finished, I feel robbed of a future husband, a future father to my children. I worry about growing old without him’
His father and noted crime figure Giuseppe Barbaro claimed prescription medication Rossario (pictured) was taking contributed to his death.
The Queensland Office of the State Coroner was investigating and said Rossario died ‘in the course of a police operation’.
‘The State Coroner will need to consider the investigation report before determining whether an inquest is necessary,’ it said.
Rossario was charged with possessing the drug ice but they were dropped in 2015 when a judge ruled police unlawfully searched the car
he was in.
Ms Porsche was a former ‘goddess’ in Travers ‘Candyman’ Beynon’s entourage of beautiful women who live in his sprawling Gold Coast mansion.
She was booted out in late 2015 after Mr Beynon claimed she exhibited ‘increasingly aggressive behaviour’, though she said she left to pursue other interests.
‘I have zero tolerance for violence in the Candyshop Mansion and as her increasingly aggressive behaviour came to a head I decided she had to go,’ Mr Beynon said.
Ms Porsche (L) was a former ‘goddess’ in Travers ‘Candyman’ Beynon’s (R) entourage of beautiful women who live in his sprawling Gold Coast mansion
She was booted out in late 2015 after Mr Beynon claimed she exhibited ‘increasingly aggressive behaviour’, though she said she left to pursue other interests
She has since appeared on the cover of Maxim Australia twice and is the cover girl for Maxim and Playboy Africa’s October editions
He added he was ‘extremely disappointed’ at how things had turned out as he had spent ‘a lot of time and money on her personal, music and modelling career’.
Ms Porsche denied these accusations.
Ms Porsche, also an aspiring rapper and boxer, later star in a series of controversial ads for the tyre company UltraTune that attracted numerous complaints.
She has since appeared on the cover of Maxim Australia twice and is the cover girl for Maxim and Playboy Africa’s October editions.
Rossario was just the latest in the Barbaro family to meet an untimely end, following Pasquale, and their grandfather also named Pasquale, who was shot dead outside his Brisbane home in 1999.
Their cousin, another Pasquale, was gunned down alongside gangster Jason Moran in Melbourne in a murder made famous by the Underbelly TV series.
The Queensland Office of the State Coroner was investigating and said Rossario died ‘in the course of a police operation’
The 30-year-old was devastated when his older brother Pasquale (pictured) was gunned down on a Western Sydney street last November
Rossario’s unclue, yet another Pasquale, was serving a 30-year jail term over a huge drug bust.
Four men with links to the Rebels bikies led by Abuzar Sultani, 27, were charged with Pasquale’s murder in exchange for $500,000.
The other shooters and accomplices were allegedly Siar Munshizada, 28, Joshua Baines, 24, and Mirwais Danishyar, 23.
Asian computer whiz Raymond Zhu, 18, was arrested for allegedly wiping mobile phone data while evading police.
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