Charlotte Dawson found dead in her Sydney home

Charlotte Dawson.

Kiwi TV personality and model Charlotte Dawson has died suddenly in Sydney.
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The popular television presenter is understood to have been found by a security guard this morning at her home in Woolloomooloo.

Dawson, 47, had long battled depression.

Dawson left New Zealand in 2007, telling a newspaper her reputation had been damaged by "nasty snipes" so badly that "I can't come back because people don't want to employ me".

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