A model presents a creation by Ukrainian designer Alena Serebrova during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kiev, October 16, 2014.
A model presents a creation by Ukrainian designer Alena Serebrova during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kiev, October 16, 2014. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE)
A model presents a creation by Ukrainian designer Alena Serebrova during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kiev, October 16, 2014. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE)

A new book released on Monday claimed that former Kazakhstan model, Ruslana Korshunova, who jumped to her death in 2008 from a Manhattan building, was a member of a cult, the Rose of the World.

She was a cover girl of British Vogue, a commercial model for the perfume line of Nina Ricci and a contract model of IMG, the same modeling agency that handles Kate Moss and Heidi Klum.

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The 20-year-old supermodel, who had blonde hair and blue eyes, felt bad after her relationship that just ended. The report said she paid the cult $300 a day to join one of their courses. Her world was then falling apart not only because of her broken relationship but also due to career setbacks.

To find out more about the cult, journalist Peter Pomarentsev went undercover and tried the techniques used by Rose of the World which has its beginning from another American cult, Lifespring, which declared bankruptcy in 1980. Lifespring lost lawsuits filed by some of its ex-members who claimed mental damaged due to the alleged repeated haranguing and demeaning by its coaches.

Pomarentsev wrote a book titled Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible which discussed what happened to the supermodel.

One of the members denied to Pomarentsev that the suicide of Korshunova was linked to the cult, but a coach believes suicide is a better option than failing to change.

The supermodel, daughter of a rich business and former Red Army officer, cut through the construction mesh that protects the New York apartment she lived when she leapt to her death.

A year after the incident, another Ukrainian model - Anastasia Drozdova similarly took her own life by jumping from a building. The cult also denied having anything to do with Drozdova's death.

One Rose of the World member told the journalist that Korshunova sometimes was spotted wandering around the town, unsure why she was there in the first place. Drozdova was also messed up when she joined the cult but refused to change.

The cult member said, "Blame modelling, maybe drugs, not us."

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