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Daily Grind No Model Life for Russian Rapunzel

by celebuzz on Jun. 30, 2008 04:10 PM / 5 Comments
Daily Grind No Model Life for Russian Rapunzel
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Green-eyed stunner Ruslana Korshunova plunged to her death from her ninth-floor Manhattan apartment yesterday. She was 20.

The longhaired Russian model has graced the covers of French Elle and Russian Vogue and appeared in ads for Vera Wang, Christian Dior and DKNY, among others.

Initially, police said there were no signs of a struggle but deferred to a pending autopsy. After an investigation, they have ruled the death a suicide.

"Our hearts are with her family," her agency, IMG (which also represents Heidi Klum and Kate Moss) told the New York Post.

An ex-boyfriend told the paper he had spent her last evening with her and dropped her off at 5 a.m. after seeing the movie Ghost. If you recall the supernatural Demi Moore-Patrick Swayze weeper, you'll likely think that's a bit eery.

Especially since Korshunova had emoted on for months on a social networking site about lost love and the hole in her soul.

In one posting, the New York Daily News reports, she wrote, "I'm so lost. Will I ever find myself?"

In another, she was practically screaming for help: "It hurts, as if someone took a part of me, tore it out, mercilessly stomped all over and threw it out...My dream is to fly. Oh, my rainbow it is too high."

Always starkly enlightening to see that those who seemingly have everything often have nothing.  She will be missed.

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“A few days short of turning 21, the 5'8" model Ruslana Korshunova, died after apparently jumping from her balcony of her Lower Manhattan apartment at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.

According to police, there was no evidence of a struggle in her one-bedroom apartment reports Page Six. The New York Daily News reports that the 20-year-old frequently posted intensely emotional poems on a social networking site, the mot recent of which said, "Love is the sun, desire--only flash. Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life." Sometimes, she expressed great despair, as she did in a post from three months ago, "I'm so lost. Will I ever find myself?"

Known as the "Russian Rapunzel," the Kazakhstan-born beauty watched the movie Ghost with her 24-year-old ex-boyfriend Artem Perchenok just before he dropped her off at 5 a.m. on Saturday. "She was a good person," he told the Post.

Her career started at the tender age of 17 and since then, she has been featured in ads for Marc Jacobs, DKNY, Vera Wang and Christian Dior.”
Socialite Life
“Ruslana Korshunova, the 20-year-old supermodel who graced the cover of Vogue, reportedly committed suicide on Saturday when she fell from her ninth floor apartment in New York's financial district.

According to the medical examiner's office, the cause of death was blunt impact injuries.

The Associated Press reported that British Vogue considered Korshunova, from Kazakhstan "a face to be excited about" in 2005.”
Gabby Babble
“Kazakh supermodel Ruslana Korshunova fell off the balcony of her New York apartment over the weekend and fell 9 stories to her death. Just 20-years-old, she had appeared on the covers of French "Elle" and Russian "Vogue". Her death has been ruled a suicided, but at least one close friend refuses to believe it. The Sydney Morning Herald says...

Kira Titeneva, who described herself as Korshunova's "best friend", told the New York Daily News: "There's no way she would have killed herself. She loved life so much."
Ms Titeneva was also quoted in London's Daily Mail as saying: "I talked to her on Friday night and we were talking all the gossip."
Another friend told the paper that Korshunova, who would have earned around $5200 for a catwalk show, had been sending money home to her family in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan and was "one of the sweetest, nicest people you'll ever meet".
The unnamed source told the paper the model had just returned from a modelling job in Paris and seemed "on top of the world".
"There were no signs. That's what's driving me crazy. I don't see one reason why she would do that," he said.
Korshunova's doorman, Mahmoud Nakeeb, was also quoted in the Daily Mail as claiming the model seemed happy when she came home about 4am on Saturday.
"She came in this morning, she smiled, no sense of depression," he said.

This is fucking sad. This page is supposed to be empty, light-hearted nonsense but there’s nothing funny about suicide. Unless you’re hanging yourself and all your kicking makes your pants fall down. I think it would be okay to laugh about that. “Holy cow,” I bet you would think, “this is gonna be one of those days.””
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