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Marie-Christine Couture, a Montreal businesswoman who recently had been dating former Parti-Québécois leader Pierre Karl Péladeau, was found dead early Wednesday in her Outremont home.

Montreal police Const. Benoit Boisselle said a 911 call came in at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday from people who were close with her.

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“There were calls from people close with the woman saying they feared something was wrong,” Boisselle said. “One of the hypotheses at this point is that it was a voluntary gesture.”

Péladeau paid a visit to the home Wednesday morning while police were on the scene collecting information.

Couture, 33, was a co-manager of Laurier BBQ in 2011 when the restaurant brought in celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. The arrangement would later sour.

She had invested in the business with her husband, Daniel Lacombe, a well-known investor in the city’s restaurant scene. In recent days, however, the couple had begun divorce proceedings.