{"id":888442,"date":"2026-10-20T04:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888442\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T04:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T04:18:12","slug":"model-sahara-ray-dead-at-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888442\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Sahara Ray Dead at 34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sahara Ray\u2019s legacy on and off the runway endures.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0model and swimsuit designer died Oct. 18, her family confirmed. She was 34.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe passed away last night surrounded by family at the hospital,\u201d Ray\u2019s family said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/10\/19\/sahara-ray-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a statement to TMZ Oct. 19<\/a>. \u201cShe was so loved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>E! News has reached out to reps for Ray but has not yet heard back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Influencer\u00a0Sabrina Zada\u2014who modeled alongside Ray\u2014\u00a0was among those who\u00a0expressed their grief following the heartbreaking news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were bigger than the whole sky\u00a0@sahara_ray,\u201d Zada wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Deq64sOm__0\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">an Oct. 19 post<\/a>, alongside photos of she and Ray over the years. \u201cStill will always be. I don\u2019t know what to do anymore. None of this makes sense without you. Selfishly I just assumed you\u2019d be here because why wouldn\u2019t somebody as beautiful, kind, funny, and interesting as you be here anymore. I\u2019m very confused. I miss you. Please text me back and say it\u2019s a moment and nothing more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sahara Ray\u2019s legacy on and off the runway endures. The\u00a0model and swimsuit designer died Oct. 18, her family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-888442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}