Is it unheard of for women to commit suicide in the nude — as Rebecca Zahau is alleged to have done? RebeccaZahau was found with her hands and feet bound, mouth gagged, naked on the grounds of the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado, California, where she lived with her millionaire boyfriend, Jonah Shacknai, in July 2011. Her Death was ruled a suicide by San Diego Sheriff’s Department investigators, despite her family’s suspicions of foul play, and myriad unusual pieces of evidence at the scene. She Never would have done it,” she told Oxygen. Combs Agreed, adding that a woman stripping nude before taking her own life is an exceedingly rare event. Just How often does it happen, however? Professional And academic literature on naked suicide is scarce. However, perhaps the most notable example would be legendary Hollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe’s death by deliberate barbiturate overdose on Aug. 5, 1962. Cleopatra the oft-mythologized queen of Egypt, was also usually depicted as nude or near-nud...