Body found at site of search for missing Glee star Naya Rivera

star Naya Rivera, authorities say.

The body was discovered five days after the 33-year-old Rivera disappeared on Lake Piru, where her son was found on July 8 alone a few hours later on a boat the two had rented, the Ventura County Sheriff's Office said.Authorities would not immediately say if the person found was Rivera, but said the day after she disappeared that they believed she drowned in the lake north-west of Los Angeles.

Search crews found the body floating in the north-east area of the lake and the county medical examiner was notified, authorities said.The lake an hour's drive from Los Angeles was searched by dozens of divers working in waters with little visibility, with help above from helicopters, drones and all-terrain vehicles.If she is declared dead, she will become the third major cast member from the show to die in their 30s.

Cory Monteith, one of the show's leads, died at 31 in 2013 from a toxic mix of alcohol and heroin. And co-star Mark Salling, who Rivera dated at one point, killed himself in 2018 at age 35 after pleading guilty to child pornography charges.Surveillance video shows Rivera and her son, Josey Hollis Dorsey, leaving on the rented boat.

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