Ruslana Korshunova possibly commits a suicide · 2008-06-30 19:25
A model nicknamed the Russian Rapunzel for her flowing hair, plunged to her death at the weekend from her home in a tower in New York.
Ruslana Korshunova, 20, a cover girl for French Elle and Russian Vogue, fell from her ninth-floor flat in the Manhattan financial district on Saturday. Police said they were investigating her death as possible suicide.
There were no signs of a struggle in the flat in which she had lived for two months, but a hole had been ripped in the construction netting that covered the balcony from which she apparently fell.
The model was wearing blue jeans and a purple tank top, but no shoes. Ms Korshunova, born in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, found fame after a model booker saw her in an article in an in-flight magazine about the German club in her home town of Almaty, Times Online reports.
While friends said there had been no signs she had been suicidal, internet postings show swings between euphoria and despair in a series of postings on the theme of love.
In one message three months ago she wrote: “I’m so lost. Will I ever find myself?”
An earlier posting, quoted by the New York Daily News, she wrote: “It hurts, as if someone took a part of me, tore it out, mercilessly stomped all over and threw it out.” One cryptic entry in March reads: “My dream is to fly. Oh, my rainbow it is too high.”
According to Telegraph.co.uk, оther postings revealed anger.
In March she wrote: “I’m a bitch. I’m a witch. I don’t care what you say … I know why my other relationships didn’t work out, ‘cause I’m unpredictable.”
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