Model daughter of British businessman is held hostage after being abducted along with her husband and 11-year-old child outside a restaurant in Brazil

The exemplary girl of a British businessman is recovering aft a terrifying kidnap ordeal successful Brazil.

Luciana Curtis, who has worked with the likes of Beyonce and appeared connected the beforehand screen of magazines including Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan, was taken hostage with her lensman hubby Henrique Gendre and their 11-year-old kid arsenic they near a edifice successful Sao Paulo.

The equipped robbers that ambushed them held them for astir 12 hours and reportedly stole their car and took wealth from their slope accounts earlier releasing them yesterday.

Local reports said they were kept overnight successful a woody shack successful Brasilandia, 1 of Sao Paulo's 96 districts, with conscionable a mattress, toilet and descend aft being driven to the cramped hideaway successful the household car by their captors.

Their terrifying ordeal began connected Wednesday nighttime arsenic they near an eatery successful the upmarket country of Alto bash Lapa.

The alarm is said to person been raised connected Thursday greeting aft the kidnapped couple's eldest kid discovered the remainder of her household had not returned location and alerted a comparative who called police.

Luciana and her hubby and her youngest kid were released by their captors arsenic the constabulary hunt for them began and they sought assistance from locals earlier being taken to safety.

The criminals that took them hostage stole their car earlier abandoning the hideaway they had kept them successful and are understood to person transferred wealth from the couple's slope accounts to their ain during the terrifying ordeal.

A spokesperson for Luciana, 53, confirmed the kidnap to section press, adding: 'The household has been released and they are harmless and well.'

A specializer constabulary anti-kidnap portion is investigating and officers person been analysing CCTV footage astir the unnamed edifice wherever the pack struck, which is located connected an avenue identified locally arsenic Avenida Pio XI.

The shack beauteous brunette Luciana and her household were taken to has already been located by detectives and pictured successful Brazilian press.

Police said successful a statement: 'The equipped criminals approached the victims extracurricular a edifice and took them captive.

'During the hunt by specializer constabulary teams, the pack abandoned the household and fled.'

Ford Models quality Luciana Curtis was calved successful Sao Paulo to British businessman begetter Malcolm Leo Curtis and Brazilian teacher mum Katia Maria Furtado de Mendonca Curtis.

Her main residence is successful New York though she spent respective years surviving successful London.

She won the Brazilian last of Supermodel of the World successful 1993 aft receiving an invitation to go a exemplary during a sojourn to a buying centre arsenic a teen and successful the satellite last placed successful the apical four.

She went connected to go the screen of a drawstring of manner magazines including Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire and Nova and has done ads for the likes of Arden B, Harrods, H&M and Victoria's Secret.

Luciana, who has 22,000 Instagram followers, earned an estimated cardinal dollars to prima successful Revlon campaigns successful 2001 alongside 3 different models.

Shortly afterwards she took portion successful the worldwide run for L'Oreal's 'True Match' pulverization and instauration with Beyonce.

She appeared earlier this twelvemonth alongside different models connected the beforehand screen of ELLE Brazil, which said successful a write-up accompanying the photo: 'The screen of ELLE Brasil #Volume16 is an ode to Brazilian supermodels who, from the precocious 1990s to the contiguous day, person been taking the assemblage abroad, appearing connected catwalks for large brands and becoming muses of legendary stylists and established photographers.'

Luciana and her hubby person yet to marque immoderate authoritative remark astir their ordeal.