On 9/4/2018 she was found beaten to death in the St. Petersburg, Russia, apartment of her boyfriend, Andrey Demenkov, the son of a wealthy industrialist. She had been struck more than 100 times with a blunt instrument. There were also four other women in the apartment, all of whom had been beaten and injured, but not fatally. Demenkov had previously been arrested for kidnapping and beating women and sent to prison, but he had been released early. As of this writing, he was still on the run.