Police probe the suspected drug death of society model, 35, after she collapsed at electronic music festival held on Belvoir Estate
- Friends say Katya Kan, 35, had taken ecstasy when she fell ill on July 8
Police are investigating the suspected drug death of a society model and artist who collapsed at an electronic music festival.
Katya Kan, 35, was working as a body paint artist at the Noisily Festival held in woods at the Duke of Rutland’s Belvoir Estate in Leicestershire when she fell ill on July 8. Friends said she had taken ecstasy.
She was treated by the festival’s medics before being taken by ambulance to Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre, where she spent a week in a coma.
Her mother Galia, 60, a senior investment manager in London, was on holiday when friends called her to break the news.
She was then said to be devastated to find harrowing photographs of her daughter on life support posted on social media. She said last night: ‘I am still waiting for a police report to find out what exactly happened. All I know is Katya had a cardiac arrest at the festival.’
Police are investigating the suspected drug death of society model and artist Katya Kan (pictured) who collapsed at an electronic music festival
The 35-year-old was working as a body paint artist at the Noisily Festival on the Duke of Rutland’s Belvoir Estate in Leicestershire when she fell ill on July 8
Born in Kazakhstan, Miss Kan was educated privately at a London girls’ school and studied at Edinburgh University and Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver.
She was well known on the London social scene and a member of Chelsea Arts Club. Her father is Alexander Kan, an author whose family fled to Kazakhstan from North Korea in the 1960s.
Miss Kan travelled to the festival at Barkestone Woods, near Grantham, with friend Eva Ciocyte, who said: ‘She just became listless and wasn’t dancing around anymore. I can’t take it in at all.’
Friends said Ms Kan had taken ecstasy. She was taken to Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre and spent a week in a coma
The £300-a-ticket four-day festival was organised by the 4th Baron Hazlerigg, Hon Arthur Hazlerigg, 36. His father, Lord Hazlerigg, died in 2022 aged 70.
Another friend said: ‘Katya got in with a trendy arty group and some of them were doing drugs. Afterwards they wrote on social media as if it was nothing. It sickens me… Katya didn’t deserve this.’
Festival organisers did not respond when asked to comment. Leicestershire Police said it is investigating the death of a woman taken ill at the event on Saturday July 8 who ‘may have taken an unknown substance which could have led to her becoming unwell’.
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