The last person Kazakh-Russian model Ruslana Korshunova called before she leaped to her death from her Manhattan apartment wasn’t her family, best friend, or even her boyfriend.
Minutes before her suicide on June 28, 2008, the 20-year-old called her ‘life coach’ who months earlier introduced her to shadowy cult Rose of the World.
Vladimir Vorobeyv, who was 22 at the time, met Korshunova at a party in Moscow in December 2007 and began a three-month romance.
Korshunova was at a crossroads, worn out by her frenetic life as a top model that had her at a shoot one day, and partying with billionaires the next.
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Knowing she was despondent, Vorobeyv introduced her to Rose of the World just weeks after they met, initially signing up for a three-day $900 course.
Rose of the World is run by flashy Russian millionaire Vladislav Novgorodtsev, who shows off his wealth and exotic holidays online.
Korshunova kept going for three months, along with her friend, fellow model Anastasia Drozdova, who also jumped to her death in 2009.
By the end of March she returned to New York in search of new modelling work but was making increasingly concerning posts on a Russian social media site.
The last day of her life began with a 10am walk next door to buy fruit, then she talked to her boyfriend Mark Kaminsky, then 32, about 12pm.
They made plans to got to a friend’s birthday party that night, before logging back in to the social media site at 12.19pm.
Soon after she called Vorobeyv, telling him: ‘I’m going to go out. I have friends coming by’.
‘She said she was feeling unwell, that she did not want to talk to anybody,’ he said.
‘She was not in a right mood. Before this, she often complained about her bad mood.’
Vorobeyv said just two days earlier she told him: ‘Even if I am not here any more, the whole world will talk about me’.
Minutes before she jumped to her death, Korshunova tried calling Vorobeyv a second time, but he was drinking at a bar and told her to call back later.
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