Rebecca Zahau

Who was Rebecca Zahau?

Rebecca Mawii Zahau, 32, was discovered dead on July 13, 2011, at the historic Spreckels Mansion in Coronado, California, owned by her live-in boyfriend Medicis Pharmaceutical CEO Jonah Shacknai. Zahau's death occurred two days after Shacknai's 6-year-old son, Max, took a fatal fall from a staircase banister in the same mansion. San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore announced on September 2, 2011, that Zahau's death was a suicide while the younger Shacknai's was an accident, and that neither was the result of foul play. Members of Zahau's family dispute the contention that her death was suicide.