Australian TV Model and personality Charlotte Dawson commits suicide after being bullied on twitter.

Australian  TV star and former model Charlotte Dawson, who became an anti-bullying  activist after she was targeted online, has been found dead at age 47.
Famed for TV shows such as “Australia’s Next Top Model,” the New  Zealand-born star had a history of depression. She was found dead in her  Sydney apartment on Saturday morning. Police said there were no  suspicious circumstances, which is how they usually describe suicide. Continue after the cut.

Sydney’s The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported that she was found hanged.
In 2012, she was admitted to a Sydney hospital after a suicide  attempt following an ongoing tirade of abuse on Twitter. She had taken  prescription tablets with wine and tweeted: “you win” in a suicide note  to her cyber tormentors.
She later made fighting bullying her personal mission, waging an  anti-bullying media campaign on television and radio and in newspapers  and magazines as well as her beloved Twitter.
Her efforts and high public profile on the issue were recognized by  the National Rugby League, a major Australian football association,  which last year made her an anti-bullying ambassador.
The NRL’s One-Community campaign is an extension of its zero-tolerance policy toward racial abuse in football.
Dawson revealed in her 2012 autobiography “Air Kiss & Tell” that she was frequently visited by the “depression bogeyman.”
She had long graced the pages of women’s gossip magazines and scenes  in reality TV shows. Her modeling career had taken her to Italy, Britain  and Germany during the 1980s.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key tweeted he was “shocked and saddened” by the news of her death.
The Sun-Herald newspaper in Sydney reported Sunday that her body was  found only minutes before her luxury waterside apartment was due to be  sold at auction.
The tragedy was discovered the day after the birthday of her former  husband, Scott Miller, an Australian Olympic silver medal-winning  swimmer who became addicted to the drug ice and accrued multiple  convictions for illegal drug and firearm possession.
Dawson professed her enduring love for Miller and sadness at his fall  from grace ahead of Australian “60 Minutes” broadcasting an exclusive  interview with him on Feb. 16.
Kate Carnell, chief executive of Beyond Blue, a not-for-profit  organization promoting depression awareness, criticized Twitter for  failing to sign up to an Australian government complaint-handling  program designed to remove hateful material from social media sites.
Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft signed up to the project last year.
“There’s lots more work that people like Twitter need to do,” Carnell told The Sun-Herald.  SOURCE