{"id":807898,"date":"2026-10-19T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807898\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:34:11","slug":"model-sahara-ray-dead-at-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807898\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Sahara Ray Dead at 34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Sahara Ray<br \/>\n                          Model Dead at 34<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              October 19, 2026<br \/>\n                            9:18 AM PDT<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                                                                Updated<br \/>\n                                  October 19, 2026<br \/>\n                                11:40 AM PDT\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20261019_371b91883fe3441e93fcc1512271ba1a\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:ad7946c0-8503-46c6-9b2a-f978931c014e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/371b91883fe3441e93fcc1512271ba1a_md.jpg\" alt=\"Sahara Ray getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/sahara-ray\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sahara Ray<\/a>, the Australian model and swimwear designer who once made headlines for her rumored relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/justin-bieber\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Bieber<\/a>, has died &#8230; TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She passed away last night surrounded by family at the hospital. She was so loved,&#8221; Sahara&#8217;s family tells TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>Her cause of death has not been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20261019_ac6e76dd1848436e9ee684fb28f1f9fd\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:ad7946c0-8503-46c6-9b2a-f978931c014e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ac6e76dd1848436e9ee684fb28f1f9fd_md.jpg\" alt=\"Sahara Ray insta 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ray rose to fame through her modeling career and social media presence, building a massive following on Instagram while launching her own swimwear brand, Sahara Ray Swim.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>She made headlines in 2016 when she was photographed vacationing with Bieber in Hawaii. She was also previously romantically linked to Australian singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/cody-simpson\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cody Simpson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20261019_2fa86a78f63b460cab3c3b6430ac22ef\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:ad7946c0-8503-46c6-9b2a-f978931c014e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2fa86a78f63b460cab3c3b6430ac22ef_md.jpg\" alt=\"Sahara Ray insta 3\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The model was the daughter of legendary Australian surfer Tony Ray and spent much of her childhood traveling between Australia, California and Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Sahara opened up about her battle with Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome &#8212; a rare neurological disorder that left her partially paralyzed following a serious car accident.<\/p>\n<p>She was 34.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sahara Ray Model Dead at 34 Published October 19, 2026 9:18 AM PDT | Updated October 19, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,50,101,1386,14472,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}