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Model Sahara Ray is set to be cremated, her death certificate reveals.
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Ray died at 34 on Oct. 18.
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She was romantically linked to Justin Bieber in 2016.
New details regarding the death of Australian model Sahara Ray have been revealed.
TMZ obtained a copy of Ray’s death certificate on Wednesday, which stated that she will be cremated next week. Details regarding the model’s cause of death have not yet been publicly released. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office is still waiting results of a toxicology report, TMZ shared.
Ray’s family previously confirmed in a statement to TMZ that she had died at 34 on Oct. 18. “She passed away last night surrounded by family at the hospital,” they shared. “She was so loved.”
The Australian model was the daughter of Tony Ray, a surfing legend. She was also romantically linked to Justin Bieber in 2016, after they were photographed together in Hawaii.
Sahara Ray and her daughter, Snow
Credit: Sahara Ray/Instagram
She is survived by her father, sister Ruby Ray, mother Gretchen Gia Bach, and daughter Snow, who was born in January. Ruby remembered Sahara as “the most vivacious, intelligent, hilarious, kind, empathetic and breathtakingly beautiful soul” in an Instagram tribute on Oct. 19.
“Sahara has moved from this life into another, and I am left trying to comprehend how someone so full of life can no longer be here to live it,” she wrote. “From the moment I entered this world, I looked up to her. In my eyes, she was everything extraordinary about being human. She was magic, she was warmth, she was laughter, she was love. She was, to me, the most incredible person to ever walk this earth.”
Ruby added, “I don’t think there are words in any language capable of holding the weight of this heartbreak. I don’t know how to make sense of a world that keeps turning when mine feels as though it has stopped.”
She noted that “grief hurts,” as her tribute continued. “It is the most excruciating, all-consuming pain I have ever been doused in,” Ruby wrote. “A pain that reaches into the deepest parts of your soul, into places you never knew existed, and leaves an emptiness that no words could ever begin to describe.”
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Years before her death, Sahara spoke candidly about suffering from Guillain-Barré syndrome. She was diagnosed with the rare neurological disorder after a car accident involving an alleged drunk driver. In a since-deleted TikTok video following the accident, Sahara told fans that she was “primarily in a wheelchair” and had “a walker.”
“I’m so overwhelmed with what’s going on with me,” Sahara apparently said. “So basically, right now I’m paralyzed from the tops of my upper thighs all the way down to my feet. I can’t walk at all.”
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