by Breaking Celebrity News Staff

The anguished family of Rebecca Zahau has formally asked the California Attorney General to launch a full and independent investigation of the woman’s mysterious hanging, Breaking Celebrity News has exclusively learned.

In an email sent to Attorney General Kamala D. Harris on Wednesday, the family’s high-profile lawyer, Anne Bremner, said the Department should open a new probe because she had obtained "compelling evidence to be investigated" and "new critical witnesses to be interviewed."

“I will be respectfully submitting to you a formal and detailed response to Mr. Shacknai’s letter (which was not copied to me nor to my clients),” Bremner wrote.

“In the interim, I