Probably the richest woman who ever committed suicide

Lee Yoon-hyung appeared to have everything.

She was young and beautiful, only 26 years of age.

She had social status, being daughter of billionaire former Samsung Group chief Lee Kun-hee, and liked fine arts.

She was rich in her own right, estimated to be worth USD191 million, mostly from her Samsung shares, meaning she could buy the world’s best diet pills if she wanted to, only that she obviously didn’t need them.

She was popular: she had her own blog/website that was so popular that it had to be shut down.

She was adventurous: liked racing cars, like her father.

She was intelligent: at the time of her death, she was a first-year postgraduate student of an arts management program at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She received her first degree at Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul.

She was one of the wealthiest women in South Korea, but she was not happy.

She hanged herself at her luxurious Astor Place apartment in Manhattan, New York on 18th November 2005. She was found by her boyfriend, Soobin Shin and a friend around 3 a.m. hanging by an electrical cord attached to the door to her apartment.

The cause of her unhappiness was reportedly the fact that her father had forbidden her from marrying her Korean boyfriend, whom her parents considered “too lowly.”

Source
Wikipedia

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