Girl With Incredible Hair
When I saw these pictures for the first time, I was delighted. I found out that her name is Ruslana Korshunova and that she was supermodel. Unfortunately I found out what happened to this 20 years old girl born in Kazakhstan – she took her life on June 28, 2008. These photos are from 2006 when she was only 19. So sadly, she is beautiful…
Here what we found about her on Wikipedia:
Ruslana Sergeyevna Korshunova (July 2, 1987 – June 28, 2008) was a Kazakh model of Russian descent. After establishing herself as a rising figure in the fashion industry by posing for magazines like Vogue and designers such as Vera Wang and Nina Ricci, Korshunova’s mysterious death after falling off her Manhattan apartment’s balcony on June 28, 2008 became the subject of international attention.
Early life and career
Ruslana Korshunova was born in Taldykorgan, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, and was of Russian descent. Her father, Sergey Korshunov, died in 1992 when she was 5 years old. Her mother, Valentina (née Kutenkova) and her brother, Ruslan, live in Kazakhstan. She spoke fluent Russian, English and German.
She was discovered in 2003, when All Asia magazine printed a story on Almaty’s local German language club, which Korshunova was then attending. Her photograph, which was featured in the article, caught the attention of Debbie Jones of Models 1; Jones tracked down and signed up the then 15-year-old Korshunova, who was nicknamed the Russian Rapunzel for her long knee length chestnut hair in her early work. Korshunova was represented by IMG (New York, Paris, London and Milan), Beatrice (Milan), Traffic Models (Barcelona), Marilyn Models and iCasting Moscow, which was her mother agency. British Vogue hailed Korshunova as “a face to be excited about” in 2005. Korshunova modeled for the covers of French Elle and the Polish and Russian versions of Vogue. She also modeled in print-ads for Blugirl by Blumarine, Clarins, Ghost, Girbaud, Kenzo Accessories, Marithé & François, Max Studio, Moschino, Old England, Pantene Always Smooth, Paul Smith, and Vera Wang lingerie. She also appeared in a perfume commercial for Nina by Nina Ricci.
Death
On June 28, 2008 at around 2:30 p.m., Korshunova died after falling from the ninth-floor balcony of her apartment at 130 Water Street in Manhattan’s Financial District. Police stated there were no signs of a struggle in her apartment and concluded that Korshunova’s death was an apparent suicide, although no suicide note was found. One of Korshunova’s friends stated that she had just returned from a modeling gig in Paris, noting that she seemed to be “on top of the world” with no apparent reason why she would commit suicide. Korshunova planned to celebrate her 21st birthday on Wednesday in Pennsylvania. Korshunova’s former boyfriend, Artem Perchenok, stated that he dropped Korshunova off at her apartment several hours before her death after they watched the Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore film Ghost together. “I feel that she came to say goodbye,” said Perchenok. “She was a good person,” he added to The New York Post. However, Korshunova appeared brokenhearted and angry in some of her postings on a social networking site. Korshunova’s most telling message came in March 2008: “I’m so lost. Will I ever find myself?”. Friends said Korshunova had a stomachache before her death, a small complaint, but in this high-pressure world, “one little knot is the book on the shelf that makes it go down,” he said. Police said that only some prescription pill bottles were found in her apartment with Russian labels. Experts did not find traces of someone else’s skin underneath her nails. Korshunova’s mother, Valentina Kutenkova does not believe in her daughter’s suicide. “She told me about her work problems about a year ago. She said that she wanted to quit the modeling business. Everything was fine with her recently though. If she had had problems at work, she would have told me,” she said. Korshunova was close with her mother, who still lives in the Kazakh city of Almaty, where the model grew up. According to the official version, Ruslana cut the nylon net covering the façade during construction works.
After that the model allegedly climbed through the hole and jumped down. Korshunova’s mutilated body was found on the dividing strip on Water Street. To get to that part of the road from the balcony, Ruslana would have to have made a running jump. Judging by the placement of the body, the jump would have to be made from the next building. The model’s mother demanded additional investigation, but the police were not willing to show initiative. Muhammad Naqib, an old concierge who worked in Korshunova’s building shed some light on the model’s death. “I was shocked when I saw her on the pavement. She was on the road, small and pitiful, in a puddle of blood, surrounded by a crowd. Her arms and neck were broken,” the man said. Muhammad was immediately suspicious. “Only next day I realized what was wrong. It was her hair! It was much shorter than when I last saw her that night, lively and happy. It seemed like it was cut in a hurry since the ends were uneven.” “All I got is a polite ‘thank you.’ But nobody called me for an interview,” said Moscow autopsist Sergey who worked on her makeup in a Moscow morgue. “The hair could fall out because of a strong impact, but it could not become shorter. When I was preparing the body for a funeral, I noticed that the hair was in a very poor condition. I even offered to find her a wig, but her relatives refused. The ends were uneven, as if someone had cut it with scissors.” According to the testimony of many witnesses, no strangers or suspicious people were noticed on the day of Ruslana’s death in her building on Water Street. The back exit in the yard is visible to the concierge, and nobody could pass by the reception unnoticed. During her last visit, Korshunova’s mother stopped by the apartment. According to Ruslana’s friends, Valentina spent several hours at the door of the apartment. She is still hoping to find the answer from American police. On July 7, 2008, Korshunova was buried at Khovanskoye Cemetery in Moscow. Her mother stated to Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that the Russian capital was one of her daughter’s favorite cities, and that “She would want her beloved Moscow to be her last resting place.”
to much horar
Her hair is exactly as was said amazing and obviously the photographer is having a great time capturing this pure and natural beauty with her amazing locks. Wonder what she looks like when she wakes up in the morning?
That’s how long my hair is, but mine is WAY nicer : )
@2- Yeah I’m not a fan of curly hair on women at all!
@Arun- Girls/Women can never have too long hair! There’s a fetish called Trichophilia; attraction to hair(body hair, pubic hair, and the most common Head hair). It is said that 7% of a population have Trichophilia. Ironically females can be turned on by men who have no hair(bald).
I’d love to have hair like her. I find curly hair on woman very beautiful. And this girl really is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
it looks like a sexy horror movie heroin …..
Event on those pics, you can see that her supposed to be wonderful hair have been changed, curled and so on. If you hair is straight once and curly the following day, then you’ve made strong changes that destroy it, so that it cannot be that long anymore. I have curly hair of that kind, I never cut them, but shampoos and brushing them is enough to break them at the bottom part. THe only way to have them so long would be to stop washing them, and I don’t think this would be ok for a fashion model.
Maybe she once had knee-long hair, but with what they had done, it could not last, for sure. The probably used goods wigs and Photoshop to have people think this was still her real hair…
Sounds more like murder than suicide. Maybe one of the Elites decided that if he couldn’t have her, nobody would.
Cuando una joven triunfa en determinado punto de la existencia, forzosamente y por lógica,jamás los padres deben de dejarla sola, pues no es lo mismo respetar su privacidad a dejar o perder contacto con tal familiar, hombre o mujer.- El mundo de la farándula es muy difícil y regularmente en el como existe una continuidad de competencia, la envidia asoma en asecho fatal en todos los terrenos y ni que decir del amoroso.- Por ello se hace siempre urgente, que algún determinado familiar este presente para ahuyentar o conjurar, que se llegue a caer, obtenido en el joven el triunfo, en garras de vicios, enemigos gratuitos y tantos peligros más que asechan sin mas al exitoso.- Dios inspire a los padres,familiares y demás, a que todos seamos felices y encontremos las formas para conservar la de los demás y ni que decir, sobre los de casa.- Pues en verdad, lamentable experiencia la de la joven rusa.- Dios tenga piedad de ella.-
Jueves 5 de Agosto del 2010.-
Great site!!!
that’s great!!!
If what Doudy says is true, then it is possible her hair was always cut short so it would fit underneath the wigs, which means it would not be evenly cut because it would probably be a quick process done just so it would fit. Maybe her family knew of this and this is why they did not want a wig for her. In either care, it’s always sad when something suspicious like this happens and further investigation is not carried through. I think death needs closure, so the people who are left behind can move on.
The true story of Rapunzel…
There must be something behind her death,someone must have pushed her suddenly. According to her story she was happy,because everything was working well for,she couldnt have killed herself
TOO MUCH HAIR ON BODY MAKES MORE EXCITING FEMAILS AS THEY MAY COVER THEIR PHYSICAL ASSETS WITH THE HELP OF LONG HAIR AND STILL LOOK COVERED AND AT THE SAME TIME 100% NUDE FOR PARTY ANIMALS.HENCE LONG HAIRS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED AS THEY MAY BE USED AS CLOTHES IN CASE OF NEED WHILE COMING OUT OF RIVER AFTER BATHING AS MERMAID WITH HER BESHARM BOY FRIEND.
F..k you Stephen. seriously. You too number 2
lovely
really great and lovely
They were taken underwater, that’s why her hair looks like that. Pay attention to the details.
where does it say they were taken underwater? I find that hard to believe..
anyway, such a sad story..poor girl. just goes to show us that these women in the modeling industry are totally objectified…the police didn’t even want to investigate further..are they so easily paid off? sounds like a gruesome murder, plus she was so young.
Can’t imagine what her mother must be going through.
what a lengthy hair! Amazing and awesome hair
Excellent!
Beautiful,unfortunately has died ,so sad
‘Wonder what she looks like when she wakes up in the morning?’What? People should read an article too,not only watch the photos!
I don’t think she wakes up anymore,sexy lingerie and costumes.You know,being dead makes it a bit difficult.
That is so sad.
I’m thinking she must have tried to cut her hair, or maybe after a random fit of depression she cut her hair angrily, or someone tried to cut her hair and then afterwards she felt as if the modeling world wouldn’t want her anymore and that her life would be unbearable if she wasn’t living this luxurious life as a model. God bless her.
Miranda, you dont know anything about her situation and her hair had been cut short for over a year. She wasnt as attached to her hair as the media would want you to know. Where her body was on the ground never matched the trajectory of ‘jumping’ or ‘falling’ out her window. NYPD doesnt care about a Russian model, but really, its the NYPD, they’ve never done anything right before.
The boyfriend did it. Significant others kill women all the time, sadly. What incompetent police. Probably there was Russian mafia entanglement, and the cops were paid off.
But even if everything was going well for her, there are still really personal things that could have been going on for her to kill herself. Just because she seemed happy and was successful, doesn’t mean she wasn’t personally struggling.
Horrible amateurish photoshop softening technique. And all the morons above didn’t notice.
I don’t think the photos were taken underwater. Hair doesn’t stay crimped or curled underwater.
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What’s up with the hair.
This is so sad! Something seems incredibly malicious about the investigation – by this I mean lack of investigation – of her death. Did the police not question her boyfriend more? They just took his word for it? You’ve got to be kidding me. Something is being covered up, and this girl’s family live in pain every day because of it. She and her family deserve better. And you people leaving mean and rude comments should read the entire article before you post. She died in a most tragic fashion! Please don’t be rude.
So sadly, she is beautiful? So its sad that she’s beautiful? That’s kind of mean.
Well this is pretty goddamn depressing.
where is the hair? If, as the concierge says she walked into the apartment that night with far longer hair then when her body was found, and she did not leave, then where is the cut hair?
Nice hair :)
What beautiful hair! What a beautiful woman! Russia has the most beautiful women in the world! It’s a shame what happened to her…
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This sounds like complete bullshit.
Someone should ask Dean and Sam Winchester to investigate this case.
Ruslana did not commit suicide. what the papers dont tell you is that she had a shady druggie boyfriend at the time, the fact that she could not have possibly landed on the sidewalk where she did if she jumped out of her window even with a running start, the fact that she was a genuinely happy girl who enjoyed life, the fact that her death was so sudden and unexpected and there was no note, the fact that she would not have left her parents in such a tragedy with no clue as to why this happened, and the fact that the investigation was closed as quickly as it was opened. She was a lovely girl and will always be remembered.
Poor girl. She was probably murdered from pimps who call themselves “managers” because she didn’t wanted to become a luxury prostitute. Poor girl..
Yeah, ugly girls’ death are much less sad…
@ml12
Your comment has nothing to do with logic.
I must say it’s completely stupid.
Got to some math (or logic) teacher to teach You some basic facts in logic…
they don’t only have great hair, they are also very pretty
Nice hair
WOW!
that hair rocks!!!
Pax tecum…