RebeccaZahau found Naked and dead in the ground

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-nude at the time of her death in 30 B.C. The queen is popularly understood to have died by allowing a poisonous snake to bite her; however, her method of death is far from settled fact, per Smithsonian Magazine.

Monroe Was found lying face down in bed, naked and clutching a telephone, when a psychiatrist who had been treating her broke into her room out of concern for her safety, according to a 1962 L.A. Times report.

TheL.A. County Coroner’s Office, along with a team of psychiatrists who interviewed people close to Monroe about her mental state, concluded that the starlet’s death was a suicide, rather than an accidental overdose, because Monroe had several times the lethal dose of her prescription medication in her body, and the pills were apparently taken very quickly.

When It comes to women, Simon noted, naked suicide is considered exceptionally rare, due to the popular concept of “feminine modesty” carrying on even through death.

Zahau’s family, however, insists that the 32-year-old would never commit suicide, no matter the circumstances, and has blamed her death on Jonah Shacknai’s brother, Adam.

Shack naihas maintained since 2011 that he had nothing to do with Zahau’s death.