Model dies in NYC suicide dive from 9th floor

Model dies in NYC suicide dive from 9th floor

Ruslana Korshunova

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Story Published: Jun 29, 2008 at 1:34 PM PDT

Story Updated: Nov 20, 2008 at 10:24 PM PDT

By Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - A European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday, and the medical examiner's office ruled it a suicide.

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.

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!''

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