Maja Janeska, a web based magnificence influencer with greater than 1.2 million followers on Instagram, has been discovered useless underneath what native media and relations are labeling “mysterious circumstances.”
Police investigators mentioned Janeska, 39, was found with a gunshot wound to her head at her luxurious Bassonia Property house in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Dec. 2.
“Upon arrival on the tackle given, police discovered a girl within the bed room with a gunshot wound on the top,” mentioned police spokesperson Lt. Col. Mavela Masondo in an announcement.
“There was a firearm subsequent to her. The girl was licensed useless by the paramedics.”
The celeb make-up artist and on-line content material creator, often known as “Maya Mia” to her followers, was reportedly relationship and dwelling with “cigarette tycoon” Kyle Phillips, co-director of the Johannesburg-based tobacco producer Carnilinx.
Phillips — who's reportedly “devastated and in shock by this tragedy” — instructed authorities he was brushing his tooth within the toilet when he heard a gunshot coming from their bed room.
Lt. Col. Masondo clammed up when requested who owned the firearm, including: “The police can't touch upon it now as that may jeopardize the investigation.”
Nevertheless, the police did verify that they’ve launched an inquest into the influencer’s demise, including that the beautiful brunette’s passing is “not being handled as suspicious nowadays.”
In the meantime, Phillips has instructed native media he's hiring his personal pathologist to hold out an post-mortem.
A “heartbroken” member of the family instructed South African media outlet News24 that Janeska generally “feared for her life” — and frightened about being murdered.
“Our telephones haven’t stopped ringing — that is all new to us,” mentioned the relative, who requested to stay nameless to guard their very own security. “We're in Europe, and our arms are tied as a result of we will’t come to South Africa due to visa points. [Janeska] is mendacity there in some mortuary, and we don’t have any clue as to what's truly occurring.”
The member of the family added that they had been knowledgeable of her demise by one among Phillips’ former associates, who allegedly claimed suicide was presently the suspected trigger.
“She generally feared for her life. Her boyfriend had males working for him, and she or he feared them additionally,” the nameless relative instructed News24 amid stories that Phillips “surrounded himself with bodyguards” and refused to be examined by state pathologists on the scene. “We're heartbroken, and we severely don’t know what to do.”
Julius Malema, chief of the South African Financial Freedom Fighters political occasion and a “shut pal” of Janeska’s cigarette tycoon boyfriend, addressed Janeska’s demise at a press convention.
“I haven’t spoken to Kyle, however I knew her very effectively,” Malema instructed native information retailers. “We had been buddies. She was a really beautiful woman, ahead trying and she or he had superb plans for the continent and the nation and held our management in excessive regard.”
9 days earlier than her demise, Janeska instructed college college students throughout a visitor lecture that she moved to Tanzania when she was 19 years previous to work in a lodge, Jam Press reported. Throughout that point, she turned “fluent in Swahili” and launched her profession as a make-up artist and stylist.
In her final Instagram publish on Nov. 22, Janeska was pictured with Bujar Osmani, North Macedonia’s minister of international affairs. She mentioned the assembly was aimed toward “establishing diplomatic relations between my nation Republic of North Macedonia and my second house the Republic of South Africa.”
In the meantime, Malema appeared to specific doubt that Janeska would take her personal life throughout his public press briefing.
“She by no means got here throughout to me as the kind who had the potential to kill herself. She spoke her thoughts brazenly with out worry they usually liked one another,” he mentioned. “There was nothing that steered there have been insurmountable issues that will warrant killing your self. I don’t suppose there was any signal of that kind. It was a shock.”
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