Former top model found dead in Paris
The body of Katoucha Niane, i of the first African women to become an internationally-acclaimed model, was found in the Seine River, Parisian police force get said.
Known simply as Katoucha, the former big top manakin for Yves Nonsuch Laurent and other renowned designers was institute on Th close the Garigliano bridge in Paris.
According to constabulary an post-mortem showed no signs of foul play, pointing to the theory that the 47-year-old may have fallen into the river by chance.
She had been missing since January and was last seen returning home from a party.
She lived in a houseboat nigh Paris' Alexandre Threesome bridge, and her handbag was later establish on board the gravy holder.
The Guinean-born model told The Associated Press in 1994 that she ran away to Europe at 17 aiming to be a modeling. Her big bankrupt came when a house decorator at Lanvin spotted her in a line up.
After quitting the catwalk, she turned to speechmaking out actively against female circumcision, describing her have experience at age 9-years-old in a book, 'Katoucha, In My Flesh', which was published end year.
"I will never get the incomparable pain out of my fountainhead": she wrote in the book, which she dedicated to her threesome children.
Vanity Fair's fashion and style director, Michael Bartholomew Roberts, said Katoucha was: "One those girls world Health Organization used her celebrity to spotlight the misfortunes of others."
In the months before her death, Katoucha took on her number 1 film office, playacting a beautiful and rebellious woman, said Leandre-Alain Baker, manager of 'Ramata'.
Motion-picture photography is dispatch merely a vent particular date has not so far been set.
Tom Baxter
