加拿大年轻女模特在上海死亡 警方在调查 (图)
(.com)综合消息：根据CTV报告，加拿大卑诗省一名23岁的女模特在上海附近死亡。
Diana Gabrielle O\'Brien死亡的消息于星期一凌晨从加拿大皇家警察传到她的朋友和家人。警方称女模特的死是他杀。
有报道称，该名年轻女模特在上海Jh. Model模特公司工作，该公司是中国模特界的领军人物之一。
O\'Brien曾在电话中告诉朋友她并不喜欢在上海工作。她已经买了机票准备在两星期内完成最后的工作后回国。
她还告诉朋友她作的是合法的模特工作。但有时被要求为年纪大的男人跳裸体舞。
上海警方也正在展开调查。但没有透露更多消息
Title: Model Diana Gabrielle O\'Brien
Description: The body of Canadian. model Diana Gabrielle O\'Brien has been found near Shanghai. The family was notified of her death on July 7, 2008.
Canadian model Diana Gabrielle O’Brien, 22, is seen in this photo taken from her Facebook page.
The The body of the B.C. native has been found near Shanghai in what Chinese police are reportedly a treating as a homicide.
B.C. model found dead in Shanghai
IAN BAILEY AND DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
From Tuesday\'s Globe and Mail
July 7, 2008 at 11:40 PM EDT
VANCOUVER, TORONTO — A 22-year-old B.C. woman who had planned to fly home early from China after a bad experience with an overseas modelling agency was found dead near Shanghai yesterday morning, reportedly the victim of a homicide.
Diana Gabrielle O\'Brien\'s body was found by Chinese police, exactly two weeks after the budding model had arrived in Shanghai for what she thought would be a promising international assignment with Jh Model Agency, but turned out to be a gig as a bar dancer.
She kept getting jobs to go to clubs to promote whisky that just involved dancing on podiums. She was sort of hoping for a fashion show or anything that was more model-related. She thought that was pretty ridiculous, said Melanie Callas, Ms. O\'Brien\'s childhood friend of 10 years.
Just a few days ago, Ms. O\'Brien sent an e-mail to Ms. Callas, telling her she\'d be flying home to Saltspring Island several weeks before her three-month contract was done.
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She wasn\'t really happy there. She didn\'t like the jobs she was getting, said Ms. Callas.
Early yesterday morning, Ms. Callas got the call that her friend, the leggy brunette, who she described as the sweetest girl in the world, would not be coming home.
Ms. O\'Brien had grown up in the small island community and worked as a waitress after graduating high school.
Ms. O\'Brien said her modest friend had always dreamed of modelling. She was always really into fashion and into photography, too, probably since her teen years, Ms. Callas said.
About a year ago, she joined a small agency and got a few jobs modelling for the website of a local company.
Wanting to break out of her small community, she contacted the Barbara Coultish Agency based in Victoria and was hired as a model, Ms. Callas said.
After getting a bit of local work, Ms. O\'Brien got her big break: two months of work in Milan.
Ms. Callas said her friend returned from Italy, raving about how much she loved the excitement and glamour of the industry.
She had such a great time in Milan. It was the time of her life, she said. She made so many great friends.
She had wanted to return to Milan as soon as possible, but jumped at the opportunity to work in China with Jh Model Agency — a job that came up after she had only been home for two weeks. The agency had been impressed with Ms. O\'Brien\'s freshly made international portfolio, and booked her to work in Shanghai, Ms. Callas said. //
Ms. Callas said her friend had complained about the type of work, but was also sick of the smog in Shanghai and had been missing home. While she had developed a large network of fellow models in Milan, it seemed she only knew one other model from the Barbara Coultish Agency in Shanghai. She lived in an apartment in the city with the other model, Ms. Callas said.
Ms. Callas said it was not Ms. O\'Brien\'s first trip to Asia. The two women and another friend had travelled to Thailand together the previous year on vacation.
We assumed everything would be fine. We were all happy for her -- she was living her dream. You don\'t always get the opportunity to do that, she said.
Joel Berry, the long-time boyfriend of Ms. O\'Brien, was shaken up yesterday morning after Mounties travelled to Saltspring Island with the sad news.
Mr. Berry\'s older brother, Ben, spoke for him.
It\'s been a pretty hard day for all of us, Ben Berry said from his brother\'s Saltspring apartment where Joel Berry and Ms. O\'Brien had lived together.
She\'s very well liked and a loved person. It\'s pretty tragic news to everybody that knows her and loves her.
Ben Berry said he was frustrated with both Foreign Affairs and the RCMP for the lack of information that they had for Ms. O\'Brien\'s friends and family.
RCMP Constable Annie Linteau in Vancouver confirmed that the police were asked by Foreign Affairs to inform Ms. O\'Brien\'s family of her death, but that she had no other details on the case, including comment on media reports that Ms. O\'Brien was murdered.
Spokespeople for the modelling agency were not available for comment.
