Successful model,18, falls to her death in the nude from balcony of 20th floor apartment
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A successful teenage model fell to her death in the nude after allegedly plunging off the balcony of a 20th floor apartment while at a party.
Dutch national Ivana Smit, 18, has been a well-known model in Malaysia for the past five years after she moved to the country with relatives when she was five-years-old.
She had reportedly been partying and had visited the 20th floor apartment of a man and his wife at 5am last Thursday.
But several hours later Ivana's dead body was found naked after she fell - landing on another balcony on the sixth floor of the block of apartments in the Jalan Dang Wangi district of the city.
Police said there were "no criminal elements" to the death but Ivana’s devastated father along with his wife and son have now arrived in the country and contacted Interpol to demand an investigation
Ivana’s grandfather Hendrik Smit, who has lived in Penang, Malaysia, for over two decades and raised Ivana as a child there, said today: "We cannot believe she fell from level 20 and the body was found at level 6.
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"She was found there naked. Where are her shoes and underwear? We believe there is a criminal element in Ivana’s death.
"Of course we don't believe the story from the police because they can't give us photographs or a report from the scene. Ivana’s father has contacted the Dutch ambassador and Interpol."
Ivana’s father Marcel Smit claims Ivana, who had worked in fashion shows for Chanel and other brands, sent her boyfriend a message and selfie at 7.25am before she was found dead around seven hours later last Thursday afternoon at around 2pm or 3 pm.
He told Dutch media: "At about 10am she would have fallen from the balcony at 20 floors high. How is that possible? It is strange that she was not found until 3pm.
"She is tall, 1.81 metres, but the barrier [on the balcony] is also 1.2 metres. Only when you bend over, do you fall off. She did not fall and did not jump either."
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(Image: Viral Press)
According to Ivana’s family, alcohol and ecstasy were allegedly been found in her blood.
The model’s uncle Fred Agenjo said: "Those are not drugs that you're going to sleep on.
"There are so many questions. Her clothes have been found, but her shoes and underwear are not.
"The police do not look at her mobile phone. The police do not want to say whether the drugs were taken when she was alive. We want a full investigation."
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(Image: Viral Press)
Ivana had first moved to Malaysia 13 years ago and lived with her grandfather Fredrik. She was the second runner-up in Malaysia Supermodel Search 2014 and a leading model in the country.
Dang Wangi police chief Assistant Commissioner Shaharuddin Abdullah said the case was "sudden death" and appealed for more information from witnesses.
He said: "Our investigations so far and the post-mortem report show no elements of foul play."