Former top model found dead in Paris
The body of Katoucha Niane, ace of the first base African women to suit an internationally-acclaimed exemplar, was found in the Seine River, Parisian law have said.
Known just as Katoucha, the former height model for Yves Nonesuch Laurent and other renowned designers was establish on Th about the Garigliano bridge deck in Genus Paris.
According to police force an pM showed no signs of foul play, pointing to the possibility that the 47-year-old whitethorn have fallen into the river accidentally.
She had been missing since January and was last seen returning house from a party.
She lived in a houseboat near Paris' Alexandre Tierce bridge, and her purse was later found on board the gravy holder.
The Guinean-born model told The Associated Push in 1994 that she ran away to Europe at 17 aiming to be a modelling. Her big break came when a couturier at Lanvin spotted her in a line up.
After quitting the catwalk, she turned to speechmaking come out actively against female feast of the Circumcision, describing her have receive at historic period 9-years-old in a al-Qur'an, 'Katoucha, In My Flesh', which was published shoemaker's last year.
"I will never experience the incomparable pain out of my head": she wrote in the book, which she dedicated to her three children.
Self-love Fair's fashion and style film director, Michael Roberts, said Katoucha was: "One those girls world Health Organization used her celebrity to spotlight the misfortunes of others."
In the months in front her expiry, Katoucha took on her first base film part, playacting a beautiful and rebellious woman, said Leandre-Alain Baker, theatre director of 'Ramata'.
Motion-picture photography is complete simply a expiration date has not yet been set.
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