Chanel Maya Banks has been found safe and sound after going missing, as of Wednesday (November 13). The 36-year-old Los Angeles-based actress doesn’t have any injuries and foul play isn’t suspected, via TMZ. Chanel, who appeared in Gossip Girl, Blue Bloods and the 2010 movie Twelve, had been marked as a missing person by her family, via Deadline.
She previously acted under the name Chanel Farrell in the 2009-2010 TV appearances, playing the recurring character Sawyer Bennett in Gossip Girl.
She has been living in the Playa Vista area of L.A., and had not been heard from since October 30 according to the family. Law enforcement conducted welfare checks at the apartment she shares with her husband CJ, but could not locate her. Keep reading to find out more… Her cousin Danielle-Tori Singh wrote on a GoFundMe that two welfare checks happened November 7 and November 8, “and her husband is being uncooperative with police.” “On November 10 my aunt and I were able to get into the apartment and all of her belongings are still there.
The only items we did not locate are her phone and laptop. She also does not go anywhere without her little dog, which also has been left behind.
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