Two men in her life, but she was still looking for love
The night before she fell to her death from her New York apartment, Kazakh supermodel Ruslana Korshunova was with the man she loved.
One of the men she loved, to be precise.
Ex-boyfriend Artem Perchenok, 24, had dropped her off at her apartment at around 4am on Saturday morning after spending the evening with her.
The next day around noon, new beau Mark Kaminsky, 32, met Ms Korshunova to make plans with her to go to her best friend's birthday party that night.
Two hours after that, she was dead.
When Ms Korshunova's mother arrived from Kazakhstan on Monday to claim her 20-year-old daughter's body, she met the two men in her daughter's life.
During the visit, both men continued to try to outdo each other in declarations of love.
Both claimed they were going to celebrate Ms Korshunova's 21st birthday, which would have been today, with her.
And each insisted that he was the one she wanted to be with.
Mr Perchenok said he was her first love, and showed reporters a fresh tattoo of Ms Korshunova's name in Russian that he had gotten on the inside of his wrist on Sunday night.
Mr Kaminsky rode with the mother to the Medical Examiner's Office, with Mr Perchenok in a vehicle trailing behind.
Mr Perchenok and Ms Korshunova split up last October.
Ms Korshunova started dating Mr Kaminsky in March and moved in with him two days later.
Mr Perchenok claims it was not smooth-sailing for the new couple and he was convinced that they would get back together.
But Mr Kaminsky didn't think so. 'She was always with me'
'We never spoke about Artem.' He also said he was not jealous of Ms Korshunova's relationship with her ex.
Stressed
Ms Korshunova seemed to have everything- a jet-set life, a new boyfriend and gorgeous looks that had landed her on the covers of top magazines.
But everything may have been too much.
She was barely out of her teens, working near-constantly and - as her online confessions reveal - was feeling lost in a foreign land.
'I'm so lost, will I ever find myself?' she had written in March on her page on a Russian social networking site.
Her pain, obvious online, remained hidden from her boyfriend.
'She was one of the top models. She was happy with this,' said Mr Kaminsky, adding he had no idea why she took her own life.
One close friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Ms Korshunova hated her hectic life.
'I guess she was no longer a new girl. She was depressed about that, she said. 'She'd made her money and she wanted to get out of the modelling business badly.'
One of Ms Korshunova's pals said she was stressed about her love life.
'She was always searching for love,' he said. 'I used to say to her never search for love. The love will find you.' -- THE NEW PAPER