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NYPD: Model Ataui-Deng Hopkins Found 12 Days After Vanishing

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A model has been found, 12 days after she was last seen leaving a Hell's Kitchen nightclub.

Ataui-Deng Hopkins, 22, was found Monday night at an area hospital, police said.

She had last been seen at around midnight on Aug. 6 leaving XVI Lounge at 48th Street and Eighth Avenue, police said.

Hopkins lives on the Lower East Side and is originally from Sudan.

In a video interview with Vogue Italia, Deng said she was discovered in Dallas after attending a model expo. She later modeled for Christian Dior in Paris.

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Police did not immediately offer further details of how Hopkins was found.

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