Sunday, June 29, 2008

Model Falls From NY Balcony In 'Suicide' (source: news.sky.com)



What a pity, what a waste . . . one can't have everything really.  Be happy, be cotent . . . be thankful . . . it's the key . . .


A model, who has appeared on the front cover of Elle and Vogue, has plunged to her death in an apparent suicide, reports say.

Ruslana Korshunova from Kazakhstan fell from her flat in the Manhattan area of New York.

Witnesses have described seeing the 20-year-old plunge from a ninth-floor balcony in the building.

Police sources have said there was no sign of a struggle inside her flat and Korshunova was believed to have leaped to her death.

The almond-eyed, flowing-haired Korshunova was hailed by British Vogue as "a face to be excited about" in 2005.

She had graced the covers of European editions of Elle and Vogue, and did catwalk shows for designers including Betsey Johnson and Jill Stuart.

She also featured in ads by Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, Christian Dior and DKNY.

A friend told The New York Post that Korshunova had just returned from a modelling job in Paris and seemed "on top of the world".

"There were no signs," the friend was quoted as saying. "I don't see one reason why she would do that."

A spokesman for Korshunova's agency, IMG, which also handles Heidi Klum and Kate Moss, said: "We're shocked and our heart goes out to her family".

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