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olympic
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Sun Jun 29, 2008 3:28 am |
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Model dies in fall from NYC building
NEW YORK - A European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday in an apparent suicide, published reports said.
Ruslana Korshunova, 20, died around 2:30 p.m. in a fall from a building on Water Street, in Manhattan's Financial District, The New York Post, the Daily News and Newsday reported. The newspapers cited unnamed officials and police.
Police said the fall was under investigation. Korushnova's New York agency and a spokeswoman for medical examiners did not immediately return telephone messages.
Originally from the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, the almond-eyed, flowing-haired Korshunova appeared in advertisements and on runways for such designers as Marc Jacobs, Nina Ricci and DKNY. British Vogue hailed her as "a face to be excited about" in 2005.
Her break came when modeling booker Debbie Jones noticed her while perusing an in-flight magazine article about Korushnova's hometown of Almaty, according to the Vogue report.
"She looked like something out of a fairytale!" Jones told the magazine. "We had to find her and we searched high and low until we did!"
In this Sept. 7, 2007 file photo, fashion model Ruslana Korshunova
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OMG! How sad! 
It looks those girls have it all: fortune and fame, youth, beauty, good health. It makes me sad that they throw it all away, maybe because they are in a crisis. There must be a lot of pressure on those girls, as one year, they are desired and the star, the next year, they are not 'in' anymore as 'new faces' were discovered.
I wished those girls could look BEYOND their present situation, whatever it is and REALISE, their whole life lays ahead of them, they whole future is in front of them. Life can be a challenge, it is for most of us. I wished they would take on the challenge, OVERCOME and make the best out of everything. And later, look back and say with a smile: Yeah, I did it!
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| A Voice of Sanity
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Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:08 pm |
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Did she fall or was she pushed?
Did she fall or was she pushed?
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Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:10 am |
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Kazakhstan Supermodel Ruslana Korshunova Dies in Possible Suicide Plunge
By Robert Dougherty, published Jun 29, 2008
The dark side of supermodels is almost a fairly common thing, as we often see them deal with eating disorders, personal troubles and disenchantment with the business. But those things usually happen years into a career. For Kazakhstani model Ruslana Korshunova, the 20-year-old rising supermodel was expected to have a long career ahead of her. But personal troubles may have caught up to Ruslana Korshunova very early and created the worst kind of result. At her Manhattan apartment Saturday afternoon, a few witnesses saw Ruslana Korshunova fall from her ninth story window to her death, in what may or may not be a suicide.
Born in Kazakhstan on July 2, 1987, Korshunova was first discovered at age 16 by the London-based modeling agency Models 1. They tracked Korshunova down when they found her posing for a Kazakstan magazine feature on a German language club. When she began to model professionally, Korshunova. was described as something out of "a fairytale" by people like Models 1 senior booker Debbie Jones. Soon, Korshunova was represented by IMG in New York, Paris, Milan and London.
In 2005, Korshunova appeared on the cover of Elle and on the cover of Vogue in Russia and Poland. That year, Korshunova was also named the "fashion muse of the moment" by the Sunday Times of London. She would model for such prestigious houses like DKNY, Betsey Johnson, Mark Jacobs, Nina Ricci and Vera Wang.
During the last several months, Korshunova published some emotional poems and statements on her social network page which may support the theory of her suicide. She wrote three months ago "I'm so lost. Will I ever find myself?" and wrote in January "It hurts, as if someone took a part of me, tore it out, mercilessly stomped all over it and threw it out." However, people around Korshunova in the last days of her life, like her best friend Kira Titeneva and her doorman Mahmoud Nakeeb, gave statements that Korshunova was smiling and looked happy in her last days, instead of depressed.
An investigation is under way to determine the official cause of Korshunova's death. Early reports indicate there was no sign of a struggle.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/849551/kazakhstan_supermodel_ruslana_korshunova.html
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| olympic
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Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:16 am |
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Kazakh model in apparent suicide plunge: reports
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 20-year-old woman identified by local media as Kazakh supermodel Ruslana Korshunova plunged to her death from a Manhattan apartment on Saturday in an apparent suicide.
Police said only that the woman was discovered dead in front of an apartment building in downtown Manhattan, near the financial district and the South Street Seaport tourist area.
Korshunova had graced the covers of European editions of Elle and Vogue and walked the catwalks for designers including Betsey Johnson and Jill Stuart.
Witnesses described seeing her plunge from a ninth-floor balcony in the building on Saturday afternoon.
Local media, citing police sources, said there was no sign of a struggle inside her apartment and that Korshunova was believed to have leaped to her death.
A friend told The New York Post, however, that Korshunova had just returned from a modeling job in Paris and seemed "on top of the world."
"There were no signs," the unidentified friend was quoted as saying. "I don't see one reason why she would do that."
Korshunova, a native of Kazakhstan, had been profiled in British Vogue in recent years as a new face to watch, and she was featured in ads by Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, Christian Dior and DKNY.
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," the Daily News reported.
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| gwen
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Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:35 am |
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GLAMOUR & TORMENT
HEALTH, WORK WOES OF SUICIDE MODEL
By JOE MOLLICA, TIM BUKHER and JENNIFER FERMINO
Last updated: 7:56 am
June 30, 2008
In the days before her death, a suicidal supermodel felt confused about the direction of her life and struggled with a mysterious stomach ailment, friends said yesterday.
In addition, Kazakh catwalker Ruslana Korshunova had lost a lot of weight in the last month and had trouble balancing her personal life and her demanding work schedule, her bewildered ex-boyfriend said yesterday.
"I think she just gave up," said Artem Perchenok, 24, who was with Korshunova on the last night of her short life.
The 5-foot-8 head-turner, who liked camping and fishing, kept her problems "bottled up," he said. "When a job would go bad, she'd take it out on herself."
But her latest beau, Mark Kaminsky, 32, of Staten Island - who said he talked with Ruslana hours before her suicide plunge - insisted the beauty was "liking what she did."
"She was a love for me," he said, noting the first time he saw her he gushed: "I'm in shock over your beauty."
To outsiders, it appeared the one-time Russian Vogue cover girl was living a charmed life.
She had a full schedule of high-profile modeling gigs in New York and had recently returned from Paris.
"She loved life," one Russian friend told The Post, while another, Maxim Ilin, said she "was the most cheerful and positive person I knew."
Perchenok speculated, "She was doing great [in her career]. Maybe she was overworked.
"It [her career] was taking off. She was busy, busy. When you're 20 years old and you travel the world, how can you complain? But . . . your family's back home and people are telling you what to do and how much to eat and how to walk."
The size-4 stunner appeared to have dropped some serious weight from her already thin frame and was complaining about a stomachache in the four or five days before her death.
And she told her manager "she didn't know what to do with her life," said her ex, who lives in Little Neck, Queens. Authorities officially declared Korshunova's death a suicide yesterday as friends and relatives struggled to comprehend the tragedy.
Half a world away in Kazakhstan, her grief-stricken mother said she would never understand what went wrong.
"She's had her ups and downs but never anything that would lead to suicide. This is completely unexpected," she told The Post from her home in Almaty.
"She was working, and everything seemed to be going fine. She was going to Milan [to work]."
The mother and her son, Korshunova's brother, Ruslan, will make the sad trek to New York to claim the body of the "happy girl" who left home to make it big.
Korshunova killed herself Saturday - four days before she was set to celebrate her birthday.
"She was going to turn 21 on Wednesday," said Nina Perchenok, Artem's mother.
"When she had a conversation with my son, she said, 'I'm 21, so I feel sad.' She asked, 'Where am I going to celebrate?' "
The young beauty - known in the fashion world for her flowing, Rapunzel-like tresses - was featured in ads for Marc Jacobs, DKNY and Vera Wang, and also made the cover of French Elle.
"She was lonely, it looked like," Perchenok said.
But her death - after spending the night watching the movie "Ghost" with her ex - was completely unexpected.
"I never heard of her being depressed. Maybe a year ago, when she wanted to change agencies," the mother said.
"But she would explain her problems. I can't understand why she wouldn't explain her problems [now]."
Korshunova left no note before she jumped.
One investigator told The Post they found several bottles of medication; the labels were in Russian.
The model plummeted from her ninth-floor apartment on Water Street in downtown Manhattan on Saturday afternoon.
A crowd of about a dozen weeping friends gathered there yesterday. They surrounded the spot where her body landed and covered it with orchids and candles.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06302008/news/regionalnews/glamour__torment_117852.htm?page=2
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| SavannahStar
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Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:40 am |
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Oh what a sad, sad case. She was SO young, SO beautiful.
No note. We'll never really know.
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| CherokeeKid
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Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:12 pm |
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Unlucky in love? Why Ruslana may have suicided
July 1, 2008 - 9:53AM
More heartfelt internet messages posted by stunning model Ruslana Korshunova in the weeks before she leapt to her death from her New York apartment have surfaced.
Although close friends reacted with shock and disbelief at the 20-year-old's death on Saturday, which has been ruled suicide, London's Daily Mail reported that Korshunova's internet poems revealed an inner torment over a lover.
Perhaps most tellingly, the paper wrote, was the model's declaration in March that: "My dream is to fly. Oh, my rainbow it is too high."
The postings on Korshunova's social networking site went into little detail about her private life but revealed a deep sensitivity and preoccupation with matters of the heart.
"Love - this is the essence of life," the Daily Mail quoted the Kazakh model as writing, perhaps to another person.
"But you will not give your life to another."
The model was also quoted as writing that love "blinds", "sets souls afire", and "is always the answer" in postings written in English and Russian.
Her most recent postings were cryptic but similarly themed.
"Do not confuse love and desire," the Daily Mail translated from the model's native Russian.
"Love is the sun, desire - only flash. Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life.
"Love does not take away from one in order to give to another.
"I'm so lost. Will I ever find myself?"
On March 11, the paper reported, Korshunova posted angry comments directed at another.
"I'm a bitch. I'm a witch. I don't care what you say!!!
"I know what it is. I know why my other relationships didn't work out, 'cause I'm unpredictable. Why are you afraid of it?"
The comments follow previously reported comments from Korshunova revealing deep heartache.
"It hurts, as if someone took a part of me, tore it out, mercilessly stomped all over and threw it out," she wrote in January. The London paper reported that the 175 centimetres model, who had appeared on the front covers of European Vogue and Elle, was discovered after appearing in a small magazine feature on her German language club in Kazakhstan.
She was signed to an agency after booker Debbie Jones spotted the article and tracked her down, the paper said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/fashion/unlucky-in-love-why-ruslana-may-have-suicided/2008/07/01/1214677998929.html
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| LISA
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:05 am |
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Mom, pals wonder: Did Ruslana jump?
BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Updated Wednesday, July 9th 2008, 11:51 AM
The white door in Ruslana Korshunova's ninth-floor apartment leads to a balcony covered with black construction netting.
The thick netting has a large hole to the right and a smaller one to the left that cops say was cut with a knife found on the balcony's floor.
Investigators believe the tragic model climbed through the small hole and crawled to a building under construction next door - and jumped.
Korshunova's friends who took the Daily News on a tour of her apartment insist cops failed to properly investigate her June 28 death and were too quick to rule it a suicide.
"I asked the detective which floor did she jump from and he said, 'Who cares. . . . It could be anything,' " said her best friend Kira Titeneva. "He couldn't answer our questions."
Titeneva also said the model was afraid of heights and usually smoked in the doorway, ashing her cigarettes into a jar.
Korshunova's friends and mother, Valentina Kutenkova, said they were told the building next door wasn't investigated.
"Maybe there was someone else there," Kutenkova said.
Police insist both buildings were checked out.
Pals also complained that after Korshunova's death, the detective working the case was off for four days.
"I expected more of America . . . I want to know what really happened," Kutenkova said. "She didn't have a single reason to do this and 1,001 reasons to live," she said, calling on the NYPD to reopen the case.
The Police Department yesterday stood by its work.
"We can appreciate how painful this must be for any family member, but a mother in particular," Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said. "Detectives . . . followed all the best investigative leads to their proper conclusion."
Police said they interviewed the men she dated and friends who described her as in emotional turmoil; one told them "she had lost herself."
The medical examiner reported her death consistent with a fall and found no suspicious injuries.
Still, friends note that police have, in the past, prematurely labeled a woman's death suicide.
In November 2006, actress Adrienne Shelly was found dead hanging in her bathroom, also in the 1st Precinct. Cops initially ruled her death a suicide, but later arrested a construction worker who admitted strangling her and hanging her body.
With Alison Gendar
The 20-year-old beauty plunged
nine stories to her death on June 28th.
Above, the door leading to the balcony
from which she is believed to have climbed
to a neighboring construction site and
then leaped to her death.
Credits: Theodorakis/News
Published: 07/09/2008 13:17:50
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/07/09/2008-07-09_mom_pals_wonder_did_ruslana_jump-1.html
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| LISA
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:25 am |
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Her dying view. Korshunova's three-month
romance with Vorobeyv started in December
when the met at a party in Moscow.
At the time, she was still getting over her
breakup with her boyfriend Artem Perchenok, 24.
A view inside the life of a troubled young woman.
This luxury apartment on 130 Water St. is where
Russian model Ruslana Korshunova lived out
her New York modeling dreams before allegedly
committing suicide.
Credits: Theodorakis/News
Published: 07/09/2008 13:17:50
The supermodel's modest closet.
Korshunova soon started dating 32 year-old
Mark Kaminsky, but according to her page on
a Russian social networking site, she still wasn't happy.
Credits: Theodorakis/News
Published: 07/09/2008 13:17:50
Despite her success in a lucrative field,
friends and authorities believe that Korshunova
was broke, which may have added to her sadness.
Credits: Theodorakis/News
Published: 07/09/2008 13:17:50
More pictures of Korshunova's apartment.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/galleries/ruslanas_apartment/ruslanas_apartment.html
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:57 pm |
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Despite her success in a lucrative field, friends and authorities believe that Korshunova was broke, which may have added to her sadness.
Credits: Theodorakis/News
Published: 07/09/2008 13:17:50
The supermodel's modest closet. Korshunova soon started dating 32 year-old Mark Kaminsky, but according to her page on a Russian social networking site, she still wasn't happy.
Credits: Theodorakis/News
Published: 07/09/2008 13:17:50
Vorobeyv ended their fling because he had a girlfriend, who is now his wife, and she was pregnant.
Credits: Theodorakis/News
Published: 07/09/2008 13:17:50
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/galleries/ruslanas_apartment/ruslanas_apartment.html
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| SavannahStar
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:05 pm |
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| Quote: | A view inside the life of a troubled young woman.
This luxury apartment on 130 Water St. is where
Russian model Ruslana Korshunova lived out
her New York modeling dreams before allegedly
committing suicide. |
Does that look like a luxury apt. to you guys?  Looks like an orange hole in the wall to me.
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| pax
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:12 pm |
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| SavannahStar wrote: | | Quote: | A view inside the life of a troubled young woman.
This luxury apartment on 130 Water St. is where
Russian model Ruslana Korshunova lived out
her New York modeling dreams before allegedly
committing suicide. |
Does that look like a luxury apt. to you guys? Looks like an orange hole in the wall to me. |
In Manhattan it is. A 'studio' in other parts of the country is called a closet.
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| CherokeeKid
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:06 pm |
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| SavannahStar wrote: | | Quote: | A view inside the life of a troubled young woman.
This luxury apartment on 130 Water St. is where
Russian model Ruslana Korshunova lived out
her New York modeling dreams before allegedly
committing suicide. |
Does that look like a luxury apt. to you guys? Looks like an orange hole in the wall to me. |
I thought the same: this apartment looks ugly. And depressing. From the inside and outside. Ugly balcony, too.
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| olympic
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:51 pm |
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actually that is quite a sprawl for manhattan standard closets, and easily over $2K a month......most models spend very little time at home.
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| olympic
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:53 pm |
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