UPDATE: Chanel Maya Banks, a 36-year-old Los Angeles actress who in her 20s appeared in Gossip Girl, Blue Bloods and the 2010 Joel Schumacher feature film Twelve starring Chace Crawford and Rory Culkin, has been found safe and unharmed after news accounts spread word that she’d been missing since October 30.

Chanel Maya Banks, who is best known for appearing on The CW’s popular teen drama Gossip Girl, was reported missing in October 2024, and she was found unharmed on. What updates have been shared about the case and what has Banks’ family said about her disappearance?

“Five days without hearing from my cousin is red flags and alarm bells,” Banks’ cousin Danielle-Tori Singh told Eyewitness News on Wednesday, November 13. “She doesn’t go more than 48 hours without speaking to me or her mom. That girl is more like a big sister to me.”