Model Dies In Fall From NYC Apartment

20-Year-Old Russian Model's Death Is Ruled A Suicide

(CBS/AP)  A cover model for European Vogue has fallen to her death from her Manhattan apartment building.

The New York Post and Newsday say 20-year-old Ruslana Korshunova died Saturday afternoon in the Financial District. The newspapers cited unnamed officials and police.

The medical examiner's office later announced that her death was ruled a suicide.

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!"

[boston1954]

This is the problem with news, it makes rock stars out of worthless people. Posted by realhdvideo at 05:19 PM
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How does the news make a rock star out of someone??

[bobnjersey]

[I''''m beginning to think the comments section should be done away with - few stick to the topics and other are simply sick and disturbed ....]
[Posted by j_flood at 06:56 AM : Jun 30, 2008]

even the sick and disturbed want/need to be heard.

[goshootyrslf]

Suicide my a$$. She was dating (having s e x with) some rich and infuential MARRIED politician who has the police and City Hall in his pocket

[blackyowe]

If you had to starve yourself to keep your job you might jump too!

[edgardebbins]

I find it hard to believe that this was a suicide. Maybe one of her customers got mad about something and just snapped.

[goshooturslf]

Posted by tootall10142

Plagiarize much????

[goshooturslf]

Well there''s a tiny little INdiscernable blip on the who-gives-a-*** meter...

[goshooturslf]

Well there''s a tiny little undiscernable blip on the who-gives-a-*** meter...

[tootall10142]

WARNING KISSROSALOVE MAYBE VIRUS AND SPY SITE.APPERARS TO SUFFER FROM IDENTITY CRISIS AND NEEDS ATTENTION.

[tootall10142]

Sidvicious in a abrupt and harsh way you are right ive been to neeew yorrrk city!two things i liked arriving at night seeing the lights and leaving the next morning with rear view mirror turned toward ground.jackals and jag offs on evey corner.the people whho rave about this city are group thinkers and dont want to be outsiders so the yell BIG APPLE OH YEAH! IN THE ABSENCE OF LEADERSHIP THE PEOPLE WILL LISTEN TO ANYONE WILLING TO STEP UP TO THE MICROPHONE.TAKE A LOOK AT THIER CITY LEADERS SLOWLY LEADING THEM TO THE SLAUGHTER.AND GETTING THIER POUND OF FLESH!

[faith_in_w]

sidvicious89, because they are never corrected when they do wrong and that they are so wonderful. They continue on their wayward path and over the years one day they fall off a cliff.

[mydiatribe]

After this investigation is complete and the exact whereabouts of her boyfriend is confirmed we may discover this was indeed one of those Putin-RUSSIAN ASSISTED suicides!??

[tootall10142]

Wasnt this a fad in the sixties? smoin that herion and shootin up that marijuana and snortin whiskey and flying out the windows and off the balcony.perhaps she was home working on her beauty secrets the day they taught gravity and propelled thrust.i can only guess what she looks like today.

[j_flood]

There are a lot of very disturbing and very cynical comments here about this tragic story.

Posted by liamys

I agree........I''m beginning to think the comments section should be done away with - few stick to the topics and other are simply sick and disturbed....

[jpwalsh123]

There are a lot of very disturbing and very cynical comments here about this tragic story.

[smurfcrusher]

"It could have been something relatively serious that caused her to go mentally over the edge."

She didn''t just -mentally- go over the edge!

[lewiston14]

Im not going to say much We likely will never know the reasons but as far as the uncaring cynical comments welcome to June 29 2008. There are reasons for that. People are being beat into the ground. No jobs cant afford food cant afford to get to work if there is a job violence running wild as more of the country heads towards poverty with no end in sight and a few dozen other reasons. More and more people just dont care about anyone anymore. I did not say everybody just more every day Very much like entertainment too many like Rome in its final years all it took was a thumb up or down. Depression is a real and serious condition so the drug companies make the drugs to help some of the most expensive to buy. She had the money but either did not seek help or a type of pill did not work so well. It can take awhile to find one that works for a person. They dont work the same for everybody. And we do not know what caused her to jump maybe she was pushed who knows

[oneworldusa]

What an exotically beautiful young woman. She had a huge career ahead. What a terrible shame. God Be With Her.

[sociald63]

she thought she was on the run-way & realized it was her balcony :(

[cbsblogger]

Ego and beauty can breed a self centered personality and create a fragile personality. It''s hard to say the reason but it is a real shame that a young lady with a real future had such fragility in character.

Those that have never had to deal with the hard knocks and reality of life that serious issues such bad health or death of family members can cause are often the most easily crushed.

It could have been something relatively serious that caused her to go mentally over the edge. Too bad that people can''t press the snooze button during such traumatic experiences, because it will always look better tomorrow.