NY-based model Luciana Curtis and family were kidnapped in Brazil but safely released after police intervention.

During their captivity, the gang reportedly asked Luciana Curtis and her photographer husband, Henrique Gendre, to transfer money from their bank accounts.

A New York-based former Victoria’s Secret model and her family were kidnapped at gunpoint and held in a shack in Brazil, as police hunt the people behind the crime. Luciana Curtis, her husband and their 11-year-old daughter were seized upon by masked men as they left a restaurant in Alto da Lapa,

Luciana Curtis, her husband Henrique Gendre, and their child were kidnapped at gunpoint in Brazil after leaving a restaurant. They were held for 12 hours before being freed.

Luciana Curtis experienced terrifying moments during a vacation in Brazil. The 47-year-old, along with her husband and daughter, was taken captive by criminals after leaving a restaurant. The frightened family was held for 12 hours in a wooden shack in one of the poorer districts of São Paulo.

Masked assailants allegedly kidnapped Victoria’s Secret model Luciana Curtis, 47, along with her husband and their 11-year-old daughter outside a Japanese restaurant in São Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday night.