Ivana Smit: Couple reportedly admits threesome with teenager before her death

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An American cryptocurrency trader and his spouse have reportedly admitted to having a threesome with a teenage model before she fell to her death. Local cops said the death was a drug and booze-fuelled accident.

Model Ivana Smit was building a career as a model in Kuala Lumpur before she was found dead, having plunged 14 floors naked. US tycoon Alex Johnson reportedly said they received death threats after private investigators claimed that Smit was murdered.

The couple gave their first interview to the Mail on Sunday and admitted that they had sex with the teenager. They reportedly said that all three had been drinking heavily and were aware that Smit had been taking drugs. She allegedly told the couple that she was 26 years old. Johnson’s wife Luna Almaz said she did not question Smit’s age.

The police have maintained that Smit’s death was a tragic accident and not a murder.

Johnson showed the MoS the death threats he received since the claims of murder were publicised. The couple also said that they never intended to make details of their marriage public. But they now fear that their own lives are in danger.

“This case is an object lesson in how false claims and fake news can come close to destroying people,” the Mail on Sunday reports Johnson as saying.

The couple also talked about an attempt to kidnap their daughter, saying that a man phoned their nanny and claimed he was Almaz's father and that he would pick up the five-year-old girl from school. The father, they said, had died before Almaz was born.

Almaz added that she feels a pain in her heart whenever she talks about Smit’s death. “But because I have been fighting to prove my innocence, I haven’t been able to grieve,” she added.

On December 7 last year, Smit’s body was reportedly found on the balcony of an apartment on the sixth floor of CapSquare Residences, off Jalan Dang Wangi, in Kuala Lumpur. She allegedly stayed at the couple’s 20th-floor unit.

Free Malaysia Today reports that her body was kept at the Hospital Kuala Lumpur mortuary for 21 days before being flown to the Netherlands for cremation. Investigators claimed there was probable cause for Smit’s death to be investigated as a homicide despite the Malaysian police ruling the case as an accidental death.