Hayley Marie Kohle

On October 11, 2008, Kohle was found dead in Italy. She died after falling from the seventh-floor balcony of an apartment at Milan, and Italian police ruled it a suicide by jumping.^[2] She had been there for just over a year after signing a contract with a modelling agency through the Panache modelling agency in Winnipeg. She was 26.^[5]

Ugo Besozzi, head of Future Models, the Milan-based agency Kohle joined in January 2008, was quoted as saying, "Everyone said the same thing: At one point she said that she was going to smoke a cigarette. She opened the window and drastically took that decision. There was no warning and nobody could have done anything about it."^[3]

Kohle's sister Bridget checked Hayley's e-mail account and could see the last message Hayley sent was one to her, just days before her death, which said she was very excited about good news she had received about a big modelling job.^[2]

A memorial for Kohle was held on October 20 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Beausejour.^[5]

Some have referred to her death as a case in a "series of tragedies" ongoing in the fashion industry at the time, along with the suicides of Ambrose Olsen, Daul Kim, Ruslana Korshunova, and Lina Marulanda, as well as Noemie Lenoir's suicide attempt.^[6]

• Hayley Marie Kohle at Fashion Model Directory
• Hayley Kohle at Panache Management
• Hayley Kohle^{[permanent dead link]} at MOT Models