Former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst jumped to her death from a skyscraper in New York City on Sunday morning - hours after posting a message on social media saying, “May this day bring you rest and peace”, - writes dailymail.co.uk.

Kryst, 30, was a lawyer and also worked as a correspondent for the entertainment show Extra. She won the Miss USA pageant in 2019 using her platform to speak out about social and criminal justice reform.

Kryst, who had an apartment on the ninth floor of the luxury building on West 42nd Street in midtown Manhattan, leaped from the 29th floor of the 60-story high-rise around 7:15am and was found dead on the snow-covered sidewalk.

She jumped from an area that was open to the whole building after being last seen on the 29th-floor terrace, sources said.

Only hours before, Kryst wrote on her Instagram page, “May this day bring you rest and peace”.