The model girlfriend of footballer Jerome Boateng has been found dead just a week after the pair split up.
Kasia Lenhardt, 25, was found in a Berlin apartment believed to belong to the footballer on Tuesday night by police, with the death is not being treated as suspicious.
Kasia, who had a son from a previous relationship, had been dating 32-year-old Boateng for 15 months before the pair split on February 2 amid a vicious fight that saw the couple use social media and the press to exchange blows.
Boateng had accused Kasia of sabotaging his relationship with ex-girlfriend Rebecca and his family – he has twin daughters with another ex – before they started dating and of blackmailing him into staying with her.
Meanwhile Kasia – who had the footballer’s name tattooed on her ribcage – had branded her ex ‘the devil’ and vowed to ‘speak up’ and ‘fight back’ once she had recovered from the break-up.
Just hours before she was found dead, Kasia had posted to Instagram talking about a ‘new chapter’ in her life.
Kasia Lenhardt, 25 (right), has been found dead in a Berlin apartment thought to belong to footballer ex Jerome Boateng (left) just a week after the couple’s relationship spectacularly imploded
Lenhardt (left and right) said she split up with Boateng because of his ‘lies and infidelity’ while branding him ‘the devil’, while he accused her of sabotaging his relationship with the mother of his children and of blackmailing him into staying with her
Paramedics are seen outside the apartment where Kasia’s body was found late Tuesday after police were called to reports of a suicide. Officers say the death is not being treated as suspicious
Rebecca Silvera, Boateng’s ex, accused Kasia in December last year of stealing the footballer from her by copying her, then of taunting her to ‘manipulate me and hurt me further’
Boateng, who now plays for Bayern Munich, was the first to announce the split after Kasia wrote off his Mini in a crash in Berlin on January 5 – with alcohol subsequently found in her blood.
Announcing the split, the sportsman said he was going to ‘take responsibility and act in the interests of [my] family’ while apologising ‘to everyone I’ve hurt especially with my ex-girlfriend and our children’.
In an interview with German newspaper Bild, Boateng then accused Kasia of blackmailing him with fake accusation of domestic abuse, while saying she has a ‘massive’ problem with alcohol.
He admitted cheating on his ex with Kasia, but said she was also controlling and abusive. He said: ‘Kasia became my girlfriend by breaking the relationship with my ex-girlfriend Rebecca and my family and blackmailing me.
‘So I decided to stick with Kasia and try to make it work. Even making the relationship with her public was due to pressure from Kasia to do so. It wasn’t mine.
‘During our relationship, Kasia often threatened to destroy me. She threatened to ruin my career and even try to make me lose my children.
‘Kasia said she would do so by accusing me of beating her. She knew that my children’s mother accused me of the same thing and that we have a lawsuit over it.
‘Kasia contacted my children’s mother and said she would help her in court. Everything just to destroy me.’
He even went so far as to claim that the model used fake social media profiles to attack him and ‘spread lies’.
‘I hope she gets help that she urgently needs,’ he added.
But Kasia hit back, saying she had in fact ended the relationship because of Boateng’s ‘lies and constant infidelity’.
In a final parting shot, Kasia branded Boateng ‘the devil’ and said: ‘I will definitely speak up, but I have to collect myself. Please give me time.
‘I will fight back! Because I’ve never been so deceived, used and lied to. Give me a moment.’
Kasia, who had a son called Noah from a previous relationship, rose to prominence on TV show Germany’s Next Top Model and made several other TV appearances before she began dating Boateng
The death was confirmed by fellow model Sara Kulka who wrote a tribute post on Instagram, cryptically saying: ‘I hope the truth comes out now, I know how much you wished it would’
Boateng admitted cheating on his previous girlfriend Rebecca with Kasia, but said she was controlling and abusive – using fake threats of domestic violence to ensure that he would stay with her
News of Kasia’s death was confirmed by fellow model Sara Kulka, who uploaded a photo of the pair on Instagram.
Alongside it, she wrote: ‘Rest in peace. You wonderful person, I miss you and would have loved to say goodbye.
‘I hope you find your peace now and I hope the truth comes out now, I know how much you wished it would.
‘I will never forget you, I don’t know anyone who could laugh like you. I send a lot of strength to the family.’
Kasia rose to prominence on TV show Germany’s Next Top Model where she appeared in 2012, placing fourth in the competition.
She leaves behind a son, Noah, who is thought to be five years old and was born to a previous partner that she split from three years ago.
A Berlin police spokesman said: ‘Yesterday at around 8.30 p.m. there was a police operation in Charlottenburg on suspicion of suicide.
‘A lifeless person was found in the home. There are no indications of third-party involvement.’
Police said they were called to an apartment block in Berlin at 8.30pm on Tuesday to reports of a suicide, and found a dead body (pictured, the apartment)
This is the Berlin apartment block where Kasia’s body was found, which had Boateng’s initials on the front doorbell