Brazilian fashion influencer Vivi Motta died in Rio de Janeiro on Monday, November 9, at the age of 23.
Friends of the family shared the news of her death on social media and confirmed her passing to the Brazilian news organisation CNN Brasil. No cause of death had been disclosed at the time of the announcement.
Motta was the daughter of the socialite and jeweller Anna Vitória Motta and the businessman Mark Zammit. Alongside her work creating fashion content online, she was a university law student.
On the short form video platform TikTok, owned by the technology company ByteDance, Motta was followed by more than 30,000 people. After her death was announced, her TikTok profile was switched to private and her account on Meta's photo and video sharing platform Instagram was deactivated.
CNN Brasil, a major Portuguese language broadcast and digital news outlet launched in 2020 under a licensing agreement with the American network CNN, published the confirmation of her death on Tuesday, November 10.
Vivi Motta wake and farewell ceremony in Rio
A friend of the family, Marcelo Solmucci, paid tribute to Motta on social media, mourning her death and publishing the details of her farewell ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second largest city and the capital of Rio de Janeiro state.
In Brazil, a traditional viewing ceremony held before burial or cremation, known in Portuguese as a velório, brings relatives and friends together over several hours at a chapel or cemetery to pay their final respects.
The São Francisco Xavier Crematorium is situated in Caju, a historic port district in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro on Guanabara Bay that houses the city's largest complex of cemeteries and funeral chapels.
According to the details shared by Solmucci, Motta's wake was scheduled to take place during the afternoon of Wednesday, November 11, at the São Francisco Xavier Crematorium in the Caju neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro.
