She's been reborn and is alive and well.
When Claudia started her career (modeling for Guess Jeans) the similarities were even more overt (and certainly intentional):
Most fittingly, however, the American public chose to go bananas about Heid Klum rather than Claudia Schiffer (even though, I hasten to add, Claudia never sported a Hitler 'tache!). Alas!, but then you liked Foghat better than Roxy Music too. Heidi is the Foghat of supermodels.