- Ruslana Korshunova leapt to her loss of life from her Manhattan condominium in 2008
- Two years earlier she’d visited Little St James on Epstein’s personal airplane
- Their connection was revealed due to newly-released courtroom paperwork
A prime Kazakh-Russian mannequin jumped to her loss of life from an condominium constructing two years after being flown to Jeffrey Epstein‘s so-called pedophile island as an 18 year-old.
Ruslana Korshunova – a catwalk celebrity and one-time face of Nina Ricci fragrance – dedicated suicide at her Wall Street condominium in 2008, aged simply 20.
And now DailyMail.com can reveal how she traveled to Epstein’s Little St James island on his personal Boeing 727 plane – dubbed the Lolita Express – shortly earlier than her tragic loss of life. She was in a cult on the time of her suicide, along with her look in Epstein’s flight logs elevating fears she’d been badly-exploited.
Virginia Roberts-Giuffre was requested by her lawyer whether or not she knew Korshuova by Brad Edwards, a Florida-based legal professional, to Roberts-Giuffre in a May 2011 electronic mail unsealed on Thursday night time.
Roberts-Giuffre was requested by Edwards, who served as her PR, concerning the mannequin, who he stated had loved a visit to a personal island with a rich male admirer.
In June 2006, aged 18, she had flown from New York with Epstein and different mates on his Boeing 727, dubbed ‘Lolita Express’, to his personal island within the U.S. Virgin Islands, Little St James. It is unclear what occurred to her as soon as she was there, however Epstein was recognized to fly ladies and younger ladies to his compound, the place they’d be sexually exploited by himself and different males.
‘I believe it is a lengthy shot you’d acknowledge her, however learn the article I hooked up after which have a look at the photographs and see when you acknowledge her,’ Edwards wrote. ‘I’ll name you tomorrow.’
Ruslana Korshunova is seen in September 2007, modeling for Cynthia Rowe
Korshunova is seen in a DKNY marketing campaign. The Kazakh-born Russian was scouted when she appeared in {a magazine} in 2003, and was noticed by agent Debbie Jones from Models 1
Korshunova is seen on the catwalk in September 2005 throughout New York Fashion Week, strolling for style label Naum
Virginia Roberts-Giuffre is seen holding up a photograph of her youthful self. She stated she ‘by no means had any conferences with’ Korshunova
Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious ‘Lolita Express’ – a personal Boeing 727 airliner that carried distinguished passengers and allegedly underage ladies – is pictured at a Georgia air strip in unique DailyMail.com pictures. It is ready to be scrapped for components
The Boeing 727 – nicknamed the Lolita Express – hasn’t flown since 2016 and was bought to Florida-based World Aviation Services in 2020. Epstein is pictured on the jet getting a foot therapeutic massage from Ghislaine Maxwell with French modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel, who killed himself in jail awaiting trial for sexually abusing youngsters
Edwards enclosed a hyperlink to a Newsweek report on the mannequin’s loss of life.
Roberts-Giuffre replied: ‘I’m so sorry to listen to the information of Ruslana, and my condolences are along with her household and mates.
‘I can say that I’ve by no means had any conferences along with her, sorry to not be of any assist there.’
The alternate was revealed on Thursday, with the unsealing of a trove of paperwork from Roberts-Giuffre’s 2015 defamation case towards Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s right-hand girl. The paperwork had been unsealed this week after the Manhattan choose dominated there was now not any justification for holding the recordsdata secret.
Epstein died in August 2019 in jail awaiting trial, and Maxwell is now in jail, serving a 20-year sentence for intercourse trafficking.
Korshunova, born in Kazakhstan to Russian mother and father, and scouted after the autumn of the us. A mannequin scout noticed a photograph of her in an airline journal, in an article through which she described her teenage quest to be taught German.
She was flung right into a jet-setting, glamorous life, modeling alongside Lily Cole and Jessica Stam, and incomes legions of followers.
Korshunova is seen in 2005, backstage on the Lela Rose present for spring 2006
Korshunova carrying Venexiana’s spring 2006 assortment on the catwalk
The Kazakh-born Russian mannequin is seen exhibiting off Rachel Roy’s 2008 assortment
Epstein’s flight logs for April, May and June 2006, which had been revealed by the courts
Korshunova’s title is circled on the manifest. She was on board with JE (Epstein); IZ (his bodyguard Igor Zinoviev, a former UFC fighter); LC (Lance Calloway, who labored as Epstein’s chef on the island); SK (Epstein’s long-time assistant Sarah Kellen) and Stephanie Tidwell
An image launched at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial present the idyllic island of Little St James with the sprawling Epstein mansion
Two personal islands beforehand owned by pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have lastly been purchased after greater than a 12 months available on the market
Epstein threw events for the wealthy and well-known on Little St James, with celebrities from Prince Andrew to Stephen Hawking amongst his company. Pictured: Jeffrey Epstein is massaged by his assistant Sarah Kellen at his personal island
The fundamental property on Little St James is surrounded by a number of different constructions together with the maids’ quarters and an enormous, square-shaped white constructing on one finish of the island that some say is a music room fitted with acoustic partitions
The sprawling property Epstein had constructed on Little St James, with surrounding lawns and swimming pool. In the background, a jetty reaches out into the clear, blue water
But she was bruised by being jilted repeatedly by wealthy males, who dazzled her with their wealth then left her.
It will not be clear how she met Epstein, however Maxwell was recognized to recruit glamorous younger ladies to his entourage.
Epstein additionally promised some younger ladies for assist with their visas in the event that they got here to work with him. The Kazakh-born magnificence’s visa standing will not be recognized.
Epstein and his buddy and Palm Beach neighbor, Donald Trump, would attend events the place fashions had been gathered.
In November 1992, Trump threw a raucous occasion with NFL cheerleaders at his Mar-a-Lago property, and invited Epstein. In 1997, the pair had been photographed at a Victoria’s Secret occasion in New York City.
Another of Epstein’s mates was mannequin scout Jean-Luc Brunel. He died by suicide in February 2022, awaiting trial for sexually abusing youngsters.
Korshunova was dwelling in Manhattan’s Financial District by the mid 2000s.
On June 7, 2006 she boarded the flight at JFK airport with Epstein; his bodyguard Igor Zinoviev, a former UFC fighter; and Lance Calloway, who labored as Epstein’s chef on the island.
Also on board had been two different ladies – Stephanie Tidwell, and Epstein’s long-time assistant Sarah Kellen.
Kellen was referred to as a ‘figuring out participant within the felony conspiracy’ by Judge Alison Nathan throughout Maxwell’s sentencing in 2022. The choose added that Kellen had been ‘supervised’ by Maxwell.
Korshunova had exploded onto the scene throughout the 2005 New York Fashion Week, modeling for Marc Jacobs.
She posed for famed photographers Mario Sorrenti, Paolo Roversi and Willy Van Der Perre and appeared in campaigns for Kenzo, Clarins and Paul Smith.
Her portfolio included modeling assignments for Kenzo, Vera Wang, Nina Ricci, Donna Karan and Christian Dior, and he or she had featured on the covers of magazines together with Russian Vogue and French Elle.
British Vogue recognized hers as a ‘face to be enthusiastic about,’ whereas some style writers dubbed her the ‘Russian Rapunzel’.
The 12 months Korshunova was on Epstein’s airplane was her style peak: that winter, she’d be the duvet star for The New York Times fashion journal.
But two years after that Lolita Express flight, she can be useless. No additional particulars on her time with Epstein ever emerged and it’s unclear if he triggered the spiral which resulted in her loss of life.
Korshunova is seen on the duvet of The New York Times fashion journal in winter 2006
Korshunova minimize by the mesh erected by building staff on the highest of her constructing in New York’s monetary district to leap to her loss of life in June 2008
Crowds stand by the shrouded physique of Korshunova on June 28, 2008
A 2014 e book by creator and educational Peter Pomerantsev – Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia – detailed Korshunova’s resolution to hitch an excessive ‘self-help group’ in Russia, which critics referred to as a cult.
She was pushed to the group after her modeling profession took a knock, and sought assist from ‘coaches’ who humiliated and blamed members for the wrongs of their lives.
Korshunova had fallen for an oligarch named by Pomerantsev as ‘Alexander’, who dumped her and left her damaged hearted. Returning to New York City from Moscow, she fell in love with a Russian luxurious automobile vendor within the final months of her life – however he too left her.
She took solace, Pomerantsev wrote, within the excessive ‘self assist’ group.
The cult, Rose of the World, had a popularity for ‘dehumanizing’ remedy of its followers, with conferences characterised by Pomerantsev – who joined to analysis his e book – as shouting, confusion and emotional domination.
Not lengthy after signing up for one in every of their programs – which reportedly value greater than $300 a day – Korshunova was discovered useless on the road.