Glee star Naya Rivera missing. Found dead

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53345696

Glee star Naya Rivera is missing after her four-year-old son was found alone in a boat on a lake in Southern California, officials say.

The 33-year-old rented the boat on Wednesday afternoon at Lake Piru, north-west of Los Angeles, the Ventura County Sheriff's office said.

It said a search and rescue operation was suspended overnight and "will continue at first light".

Rivera is best known for playing cheerleader Santana Lopez in Glee.

The musical comedy TV series ran on the Fox network from 2009 to 2015.


In 2018, Glee actor Mark Salling killed himself before he was expected to be sentenced for possessing child sex abuse images.

In 2013, Cory Monteith, another star of the show, died from a heroin and alcohol overdose.

What's is known about the boating incident?
Rivera's child was spotted by another boater three hours after the actress had taken the boat, CBS Los Angeles reports, quoting the sheriff's office.

It says the boy told investigators that he and his mother were swimming - but the she never got back into the boat.

The missing person was later formally identified as Naya Rivera, a Los Angeles resident.

On Tuesday, Rivera posted on Twitter a picture of herself and her son with a caption "just the two of us".

Who is Naya Rivera?
Rivera began her career as a child actress and model, appearing in TV commercials in the US.

As a four-year-old she starred in the Royal Family sitcom, and had a number of other TV appearances.

But it was playing cold-hearted Santana Lopez in Glee that made her a star in America.

In 2014, Rivera starred in the horror film At the Devil's Door.

The same year she married fellow actor Ryan Dorsey - who is the father of her son.

The couple divorced in 2018 and have joint custody of the boy.
 

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If this is true, I´m totally heartbroken for her and her child...Still praying it´s not true.
 

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There are hundreds of horrid, emotional tragedies happening around the world these days, however, this particular story is having quite an impact on me.



I always thought Santana was the most interesting character in Glee.
Yes, and it's starting to feel like this show is cursed, if such a thing exists.
 

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All media is reporting her death. TMZ just probably had a source present and could be the 1st media to report it. They have spies everywhere.

https://deadline.com/2020/07/naya-r...fornia-lake-with-son-glee-actress-1202981256/

They said the identity of the deceased would be conclusively confirmed via dental records during an autopsy to follow.

Is this line enough to confirm the death of a public person? Did they do the autopsy already? Again, I don´t want to sound morbid, but every 9 0f 10 articles have done the same: report without confirming anything at all. This reminds me of the death of Ken Kercheval last year. We all know that he turned out to be dead, but there were contradictions when the news appeared on the net, seemingly from his own family. Anyway, RIP Naya Rivera. You were the ice on the cake that was "Glee".
 

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They said the identity of the deceased would be conclusively confirmed via dental records during an autopsy to follow.

Is this line enough to confirm the death of a public person? Did they do the autopsy already? Again, I don´t want to sound morbid, but every 9 0f 10 articles have done the same: report without confirming anything at all. This reminds me of the death of Ken Kercheval last year. We all know that he turned out to be dead, but there were contradictions when the news appeared on the net, seemingly from his own family. Anyway, RIP Naya Rivera. You were the ice on the cake that was "Glee".

Who else could it be? They know exactly what she looked like, what she was wearing and how long she had been missing. They are most likely 99.9% sure, but still need it to be absolutely confirmed for legal reasons. If they weren't very very very sure (based on simply seeing the body), they would not have announced it. Only 5 days in a lake won't destroy a body.

With Ken Kercheval, wasn't it just that the family wasn't ready to go public when the initial report came out? I can't remember, but I don't think it had anything to do with being unsure of the identity of a dead body.
 
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