Reality star Ryan Jenkins 'committed suicide' following Playboy model's death 

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Reality star Ryan Jenkins \'committed suicide\' following Playboy model\'s death

Reality show contestant Ryan Jenkins has been found dead in an apparent suicide in a motel in Canada, police said, following the murder of Jasmine Fiore, a former Playboy model.

Ryan Alexander Jenkins and Jasmine Fiore\'s wedding in Las Vegas, March 2009 Photo: AP

Jasmine Fiore, who has been identified as the woman whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase and placed in a dumpster. Photo: GETTY/AP

The real estate developer and investor was wanted in California on first-degree murder charges after the mutilated body of his ex-wife was found in a bin in Buena Park, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles.

Sgt Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police border integrity unit says police responded to a call about a dead person in Hope, east of Vancouver, and then called investigators who were part of the massive manhunt for Jenkins.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are "now able to confirm that a deceased person that was found in a motel in Hope, British Columbia is, in fact, Ryan Jenkins," Pound said.

"At this present time the investigation into the circumstances of his death is continuing, but preliminary evidence suggests that he took his own life. Any further details will not be released at this time as this investigation remains in its infancy."

Jenkins\' body was found in The Thunderbird Motel on a secluded road on the outskirts of Hope, BC at the entrance to the province\'s mountainous interior. His body was found in a room at the out-of-the-way motel.

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The Thunderbird was surrounded by police with a coroner\'s van, said Mark Lojeski who works at the nearby Lucky Strike Motel.

Jenkins, 32, disappeared last week but his boat was found on Wednesday at a marina not far from the US-Canada border south of Vancouver.

Jenkins had apparently hanged himself, said Farrah Emami, spokeswoman for the Orange County District Attorney\'s Office in California, which is contact with Canadian police. Crime scene investigators identified Jenkins through fingerprints, she said.

Pound says police don\'t yet know how long Jenkins was at the motel before his body was discovered.

Fiore\'s teeth had been pulled out and her fingers cut off, apparently to impede her identification. Investigators used the serial numbers on her breast implants to identify her, according to the Orange County district attorney\'s office.

Jenkins and Fiore met in Las Vegas in March and they married a few weeks later. The couple separated shortly afterwards, but had reportedly recently reconciled.

California authorities said police in Buena Park where Fiore was found would continue their investigation to make sure no one else was involved in the killing, but did not expect to find anything.

"We continue to believe that Mr Jenkins was solely responsible," said Emami, spokeswoman for the Orange County District Attorney\'s Office.

A phone message left with Fiore\'s mother, Lisa Lepore, was not immediately returned.

Friends said Fiore was a model who worked mainly in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, doing gigs such as being bodypainted at parties. She also was an aspiring actress and had a bit part in a small 2008 horror science-fiction movie,

Jenkins was recently a contestant on VH1 reality show Megan Wants a Millionaire, in which wealthy young men tried to win over a materialistic blonde. The network cancelled the show on Friday.

He also was a participant in an as-yet-unaired competitive reality series, I Love Money 3. A VH1 spokesman said no decision has been made on whether or not to run the show.

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