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Report: Model Dead in Apparent Suicide
Sunday June 29, 2008

Ruslana Korshunova at the Spring/Summer 2006 London Fashion Week.
Jamie Tregidgo / Wire Image

Twenty-year-old model Ruslana Korshunova jumped to her death from the ninth-floor balcony of her New York City apartment in an apparent suicide Saturday.

There were no signs of a struggle inside Korshunova's downtown apartment police told the The New York Post.

The 5-foot-8 model from Kazakhstan, 20, was dubbed, "The Russian Rapunzel," for her long, flowing hair. She graced the covers of French Elle and Russian Vogue, and appeared in ads for March Jacobs, DKNY, Vera Wang and Christian Dior.

"Our hearts are with her family," a spokesperson for Korshunova's agency, IMG (who also reps Heidi Klum and Kate Moss) told The New York Post.

A pal told The New York Post that Korshunova had just returned from a modeling gig in Paris and seemed to be "on top of the world."

In months leading up to her apparent suicide, Korshunova ranted about love on a Web site, New York's Daily News reported Sunday.

"Do not confuse love and desire," Korshunova wrote on May 30. "Love is the sun, desire - only flash. Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life."

On March 11, the green-eyed beauty wrote, "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?"

In another telling post, the model who was to turn 21 on July 2, wrote, "I'm so lost. Will I ever find myself?"

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