The body of Glee star Naya Rivera has been found at a Southern California lake, US authorities say.
Key points:
- The body was found five days after Ms Rivera went missing on the lake
- Ms Rivera's four-year-old son was found sleeping in the boat the two had rented
- Glee actors Mark Salling and Cory Monteith both died in their 30s
Ventura County Sheriff's officials confirmed at an afternoon news conference on Monday local time that the body that search crews found floating in the north-east corner of Lake Piru earlier in the day was the 33-year-old Rivera.
The body was discovered five days after Ms Rivera disappeared on Lake Piru, where her four-year-old son was found on July 8 alone a few hours later on a boat the two had rented, the Ventura County Sheriff's Office said.
The day after she disappeared, authorities said they believed she drowned in the lake north-west of Los Angeles.
Ms Rivera's family has been notified.
The lake, an hour's drive from Los Angeles, was searched by dozens of divers working in waters with little visibility, with help from sonar and robotic devices combing the bottom and helicopters and drones searching above.
"I can't imagine what it's like for her parents, her family," Captain Buschow said.
"It takes an emotional toll on the search teams too."
Ms Rivera played singing cheerleader Santana Lopez for six seasons on the musical-comedy Glee.
She becomes the third major cast member from the show to die in their 30s.
Cory Monteith, one of the show's leads, died at 31 in 2013 from a toxic mix of alcohol and heroin.
And co-star Mark Salling, who Ms Rivera dated at one point, killed himself in 2018 at age 35 after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.
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Ms Rivera had experience boating on the lake in Los Padres National Forest, authorities said.
Surveillance video shows Ms Rivera and her son, Josey Hollis Dorsey, leaving on the rented boat.
When the boat failed to return, its vendor found the vessel drifting in the northern end of the lake late on Wednesday afternoon with the boy asleep on board.
He told investigators he and his mother had been swimming and he got back into the boat but she didn't, according to a sheriff's office statement.
The boy was wearing a life vest, and another life jacket was found in the boat along with Ms Rivera's purse and identification.
Ms Rivera is believed to have drowned, "in what appears to be a tragic accident," the statement said.
The boy, Ms Rivera's son from her marriage to actor Ryan Dorsey, was safe and healthy and with family members, authorities said. The couple finalised their divorce in June 2018 after nearly four years of marriage.
The most recent tweet on Ms Rivera's account, from July 7, read "just the two of us" along with a photo of her and her son.
AP
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2020-07-13 20:00:00Z
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