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‘Gossip Girl’ actress Chanel Maya Banks, known as Chanel Farrell, missing for 2 weeks; family launches desperate search
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‘Gossip Girl’ actress Chanel Maya Banks, known as Chanel Farrell, missing for 2 weeks; family launches desperate search

LOS ANGELES– A Los Angeles actress who appeared on shows such as “Blue Bloods” and “Gossip Girl” has gone missing and her family has come from out of state to help her in her desperate search.

Family members say Chanel Maya Banks, 36, who lives in the Playa Vista area, has not been heard from since October 30.

Authorities conducted welfare checks at her home and could not locate her. Her family says they recently entered the apartment where she had lived with her husband for a year and still found her belongings and her dog there.

Danielle-Tori Singh, who flew in from Toronto to help with the search, says she is very close to her cousin. When a few days passed without hearing from her or being able to contact her, she and other members of her family became concerned.

“Five days of not hearing from my cousin, that’s red flags and alarm bells ringing,” Singh told ABC Los Angeles affiliate KABC. “She doesn’t go more than 48 hours without talking to me or her mother. … This girl is more like a big sister to me.”

Singh distributes flyers in the Banks neighborhood.

She says Banks’ husband has not cooperated with the family or authorities.

“He’s not willing to help the LAPD. He’s not willing to help me or his mother find her. He’s pulling fliers off poles and out of cars.”

The family started a GoFundMe page to help them in their research, including hiring a private investigator, because they believe the LAPD is not taking the case seriously enough.

Banks’ IMDB page lists her appearances on shows including “Blue Bloods,” “Twelve” and “Gossip Girl.” She sometimes acted under the name Chanel Farrell.

Singh said her cousin had moved away from acting in recent years and was concentrating on writing.

“I can tell you in my soul, in my gut, that something is wrong. (…) We are now going through two weeks without a word, without a sound. Nothing.”

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