Rihanna’s “River Island” Model Ataui Deng FOUND At NYC Hospital — Reported Missing For Two Weeks

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10 years ago

August 19, 2014

Sudanese model Ataui Deng, who’s modeled for Rihanna’s River Island collection, has been found at local hospital in New York City after a frantic two week search. More inside…

Two weeks ago, Sudanese model Ataui Deng (the niece of supermodel Alek Wek) went missing in New York City. The 22-year-old stunner was last spotted outside of Hell’s Kitchen hotspot The Attic on West 48th Street; she was later reported missing by her live-in boyfriend, actor & PR worker Grant Monohon (pictured below).

Ataui, who’s made tons of friends in the industry, became the subject of a frantic search after Rihanna tweeted her 36 million followers, “If anyone has any information on this young lady’s whereabouts, please call the NYPD or email findataui@gmail.com”.

Thanks to that tweet and tweets from her fellow models like Joan Smalls, as well as other search efforts, a hospital worker tipped off the NYPD around 1AM this morning that Ataui was being treated at an unnamed hospital. According to the NY Daily News, the worker revealed that Ataui was safe and that her life was not in danger.

But a little research has uncovered some interesting factors about her life that may–or may not–shed light on why a successful young model would simply go missing for weeks and end up in a hospital.

We’ve learned that Ataui is currently going through a divorce from husband Kourtney Hopkins, who is also a model at her agency, Trump Agency.

As far as where she’s been for the past two weeks or why she’s in the hospital…it’s unclear. But her boyfriend gave a peculiar statement about what occured.

He reportedly said that it’s not unusual for her to not come home for a day or two. After leaving the party on August 6th with Ataui, Grant said that she left out again once they arrived home, and she left her phone and everything in the home. He said that she wanted to “sleep in the park.”

“I was really worried the third day,” he said by phone, before hearing the news that Deng had been found. “She always comes home.”

Grant claims she’s been acting “irregular” lately, and he got worried around the third day of her not returning home. He reported Ataui missing eight days later.

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