US-based model, husband and child kidnapped and held 12 hours after leaving restaurant in Brazil: reports

Luciana Curtis, an international model; her lensman husband, Henrique Gendre; and their 11-year-old kid were kidnapped and held hostage for 12 hours successful her location state Wednesday night, according to reports. 

"The equipped criminals approached the victims extracurricular a edifice and took them captive," Brazilian police said successful a statement, according to the New York Post, citing section reports.  

Curtis, 47, who was calved successful Brazil, has been connected the screen of manner magazines similar Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan and worked with celebrities similar Beyoncé portion modeling for brands specified arsenic Victoria’s Secret and H&M. 

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Luciana Curtis, an planetary model; her lensman husband; and their 11-year-old kid were kidnapped and held hostage for 12 hours successful her location state Wednesday night, according to reports.  (Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/Getty Images for ARD Foundation)

She has homes successful New York, London and Brazil. 

The household was forced by the kidnappers into their ain car aft they had been eating successful an upscale vicinity successful São Paulo. They were forced to thrust to a shack connected the outskirts of the metropolis with conscionable a mattress, toilet and sink, wherever they were held captive overnight, according to reports. 

They were released aboriginal Thursday aft the kidnappers stole wealth from their slope accounts. 

Curtis walking a runway successful Brazil successful 2004.  (Fernanda Calfat/Getty Images)

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"During the hunt by specializer constabulary teams, the pack abandoned the household and fled," constabulary said, according to the Post. 

The couple’s oldest child, who didn’t spell to meal with the family, alerted constabulary aft they didn’t instrumentality from meal Wednesday. 

Curtis with hubby Henrique Gendre.  (Luciana Curtis/Instagram)

"The household has been released, and they are harmless and well," a rep for Curtis told section media, the Post reported. 

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No arrests person been made.