Police searching for missing Glee star Naya Rivera say a body has been found in Lake Piru, southern California.
Naya Rivera, 33, went missing on July 8 after going boating with her 4-year-old son at Lake Piru. He was found alone and asleep in the boat.
Divers and teams using sonar equipment resumed the search on July 13. Police have not given details, and a news conference will be held later.
Naya Rivera is best known for playing the cheerleader Santana Lopez in Glee.
Her son told police they had gone swimming but the actress never returned. After a massive search and rescue operation found no trace of Naya Rivera, police moved to a “search and recovery operation”.
They said the actress is believed to have drowned in a “tragic accident”.
Naya Rivera began her career as a child actress and model, appearing in TV commercials in the US.
As a four-year-old, Naya Rivera starred in the Royal Family sitcom on CBS and had a number of other TV appearances.
In 2014, Naya Rivera starred in the horror film At the Devil’s Door.
The same year Naya Rivera married fellow actor Ryan Dorsey – who is the father of her son. When the couple divorced in 2018, they were granted joint custody.
Naya Rivera’s child was spotted by another boater three hours after the actress had taken the boat, CBS Los Angeles reports, quoting the sheriff’s office.
It says the boy told investigators that he and his mother were swimming – but she never got back into the boat.
The missing person was later formally identified as Naya Rivera, a Los Angeles resident.
The sheriff’s department said the lake would be closed to the public as the search resumed on July 9, with dive teams from across the region taking part.
On July 7, Naya Rivera posted on tweeted a picture of herself and her son with a caption “just the two of us”.
Naya Rivera began her career as a child actress and model, appearing in TV commercials in the US.
As a four-year-old she starred in the Royal Family sitcom, and had a number of other TV appearances.
It was playing cold-hearted Santana Lopez in Glee that made Naya Rivera a star in America.
In 2014, Naya Rivera starred in the horror film At the Devil’s Door.
The same year she married fellow actor Ryan Dorsey – who is the father of her son.
Naya Rivera and Ryan Dorsey divorced in 2018 and have joint custody of the boy.
In the February edition of Complex magazine, Big Sean opens up about the theft his ex-fiancée Naya Rivera accused him of.
After deciding to call off their wedding, the rapper and his Glee-starring ex started hating each other rather publicly and turned to social media, music and any forum they could find to trash one another.
Naya Rivera even went so far as to accuse Big Sean of stealing a pricey Rolex Submariner from her.
“@bigsean stealing rolexes from a lady’s house now. Maybe cuz I’m on Glee and making more money or something. #triflin,” Naya Rivera tweeted at the time. She later deleted it.
Although she married Ryan Dorsey three months later, their apparent hatred for one another continued as Big Sean then released I Don’t F— With You, which was rumored to be about Naya Rivera.
Big Sean told the publication: “First of all, why would I have to steal a Rolex?”
“Second of all, every Rolex that I have, I have receipts for, papers for, certificates of authenticity for. I would never steal a Rolex from anybody.
“You see [Naya Rivera’s] tweet got deleted in like 20 seconds,” the rapper adds.
Big Sean doesn’t comment on whether or not rumors of Naya Rivera’s alleged jealousy and controlling tendencies are true, but he does open up about the reason why their relationship dissolved.
He said they began fighting more than they did anything else. But he does add that he “wasn’t surprised” by her accusation.
Big Sean said: “I felt like it was unnecessary drama ’cause in my eyes it wasn’t true. I wasn’t surprised by it.
“Even though I didn’t steal anything, I wasn’t surprised by it.”
Big Sean is now dating Ariana Grande. He says that they began as really good friends, which is one of the aspects he respects most about their relationship.
Glee star Naya Rivera and her new boyfriend Big Sean made their official debut as a couple at the premiere of new movie 42 in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.
Naya Rivera and Big Sean strolled onto the red carpet hand-in-hand, before posing up with their arms around each other.
Naya Rivera and her new boyfriend Big Sean made their official debut as a couple at the premiere of new movie 42 in Los Angeles
While they had been spotted together on various occasion over the past few months, Naya Rivera and Big Sean looked thrilled to finally be making their romance official as they attended the event at the TCL Chinese Theatre.
Naya Rivera, 26, smoldered for the waiting photographers, showing off her slim figure in a grey snakeskin dress and white pointed heels, leaving her dark brown hair loose in tumbling curls for the occasion.
Big Sean, 25, meanwhile, appeared to find the red carpet event slightly more amusing – grinning with delight he joked around pulling faces and funny poses behind his girlfriend’s back.
They first sparked romance rumors when Naya Rivera was see at the rapper’s surprise 25th birthday party in Las Vegas earlier this month.
Big Sean, whose real name is Sean Michael Anderson, tweeted at the time: “@nayarivera was in on it too, lookin good… I really had no idea about this…”
Naya Rivera then tweeted a picture of them together at the celebration, writing: “Such a good picture from last night. Best surprise ever!”
Prior to her romance with Big Sean, Naya Rivera has been linked to stars including Douglas Booth, as well as her Glee co-stars Mark Salling and Kevin McHale.
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