On July 21st, 2001, Ilona Duncan's life changed forever when her daughter, model and actress Natasha Duncan died in New York City. The NYPD was quick to label her death "a classic case of suicide." Three to four stab wounds a detective told the grieving parents. That year Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York City, and "his" city unlike any other in the USA had a drop in the murder rate. Yet the suicide rate increased. Imagine the shock that Ian & Ilona Duncan felt a year later? The coroner's report showed 23 cuts and stabs in their daughter's neck and chest. What happened that July evening in a Manhattan apartment? Nothing indicated that Natasha wanted to end her life. Yet from 2001 until 2026, this successful model & talented actress remains maligned on the Internet. In her book, Ilona Duncan counters the grave injustice of misleading news reports & television footage. She provides factual material that shows the police quickly closed the case. A reader will find it hard to believe the NYPD claim that Natasha killed herself. Written in three parts, Maligned Beauty is documented with factual material and yet woven with mysterious circumstances and synchronicity. In telling the story of her daughter, Duncan reveals hidden & mystifying levels of life and death.
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