Leslie Carter(1986-2012)
- Actress
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Leslie Barbara Carter was born on June 6, 1986, in Tampa, Florida, into the
family of Robert Gene Carter (aka
Robert Carter) and his wife Jane
Elizabeth Carter (née Spaulding) and become the third of their five children. Her parents were divorced in 2003 after more than 20 years of
marriage. Leslie had older brother Nick Carter (b. 1980), older
sister Bobbie Jean Carter (b. 1982), and twin younger brother and sister Aaron Carter and
Angel Carter (b. 1987). With her
four siblings she participated in the family rally show
House of Carters (2006).
Also had three half-siblings: sister Virginia Marie (b. 1972, from
her father's first marriage) and brother Kaden (b. 2005) and sister
Taelyn (from her father's third and current marriage to
Ginger Carter).
In September 2008, Leslie married her longtime boyfriend Mike Ashton, and in April 2011 they gave birth to their only child, a daughter named Alyssa Jane Ashton. She died at age 25 on January 31, 2012, from an accidental prescription drug overdose in the home her father, stepmother and half-brother and sister in Westfield, New York. She was survived by her father, mother, stepmother, seven siblings, husband of almost four years and 10-month-old daughter.
In September 2008, Leslie married her longtime boyfriend Mike Ashton, and in April 2011 they gave birth to their only child, a daughter named Alyssa Jane Ashton. She died at age 25 on January 31, 2012, from an accidental prescription drug overdose in the home her father, stepmother and half-brother and sister in Westfield, New York. She was survived by her father, mother, stepmother, seven siblings, husband of almost four years and 10-month-old daughter.
