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Perth Influencer Honours Friend Sahara Ray After Shock Death

  • Australian model Sahara Ray died at 34 on Sunday, just months after welcoming her daughter Snow in January 2026. Her family confirmed the death on Monday, saying she passed away surrounded by loved ones at a hospital.
  • The Daily Mail reported Ray suffered a fentanyl overdose on Friday before being hospitalized in the Los Angeles area. However, her family has not publicly confirmed an official cause of death.
  • In 2024, Ray revealed a diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome after being hit by a car, which caused temporary paralysis. No evidence establishes the nerve condition contributed to her death.
  • Ray's younger sister Ruby shared an emotional tribute, describing Sahara as a 'breathtakingly beautiful soul.' Ruby wrote the world feels 'impossibly dimmer' without her sister.
  • Ray rose to prominence through modeling and her swimwear label, Sahara Ray Swim, launched in 2014. She maintained a significant Instagram presence with over 900,000 followers, where she shared glimpses of motherhood with her daughter.
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The Australian model Sahara Ray died on October 16 in Los Angeles at the age of 34, a victim of an overdose of fentanyl. In 2016, her short romance with singer Justin Bieber had ignited social networks. Followed by nearly a million Instagram subscribers, she had become a mother last January. - Who was Sahara Ray, Justin Bieber's former partner died at the age of 34? (Culture, media and entertainment).

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Sahara Ray's younger sister, Justin Bieber's ex-affair, paid a tribute to the Australian model, who died earlier this week — the case is treated as a possible overdose of fentanyl — describing it as a force of nature. On Tuesday, Ruby Ray shared on Instagram a sequence of old photos, only two days after the death of Sahara, 34 years old — an entrepreneur of the beach fashion industry — in a Los Angeles hospital. My beautiful older sister, Sahara…

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“I want my big sister. I want more time, more laughter, more conversations, more of her,” Ruby Ray wrote in an emotional message following the death of her sister, Sahara, who died at the age of 34. Ruby posted photos from their childhood and described Sahara as “the most vibrant, intelligent, funny, kind, compassionate and stunningly beautiful soul.” “She was a force of nature, a light so bright that this world seems impossibly darker without h…

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Model Sahara Ray died at the age of 34. According to media reports of an overdose.

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TMZ broke the news in Burbank, United States on Monday, October 19, 2026.
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