Model daughter of British businessman kidnapped and held hostage by thieves

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, 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 took stole their car and 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 by their captors.

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 household were released by their captors conscionable arsenic the constabulary hunt for the 3 began.

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.

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.

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 teenager.

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.

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

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

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