Tragedy: Ruslana Korshunova Dies

A cover model for European Vogue has fallen to her death from her Manhattan apartment building in an apparent suicide.

The New York Post and Newsday said 20-year-old Ruslana Korshunova died about 2:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon in a fall from a building on Water Street, in Manhattan's Financial District. The newspapers cited unnamed officials and police.

It appeared Korshunova fell from the balcony of her ninth-floor apartment, police said.

Authorities were investigating the circumstances of the fall Saturday evening. It was unclear whether anyone else was in the apartment at the time of the fall, police said.

The British edition of Vogue hailed Korshunova as "a face to be excited about" in 2003.

The telephone rang unanswered at Korshunova's New York agency Saturday evening. A spokeswoman for medical examiners did not immediately return a telephone call.