There are repeated references from the late nineties to her being a popular face to adapt among connosieurs of body shops, and she was a very popular model of bunraku puppet. Pretty much any major SR figure was ripe for having people scream "I WANT A FAMOUS FACE" (BTW, that was a real show a decade ago, so it's not without precedent), with Nadja, Dunkelzahn in human form, and Damien Knight being among the favorites at the time. There has been a strong appeal of SR bodytech among the masses since the beginning that you can either be your favorite icon, or fuck your favorite icon (in simsense or physically), or both.
I've said it before, but given that she was the most popular and powerful woman on Earth when she disappeared, she could have reappeared a week later and walked around relatively unmolested because there would be a million men and women who looked just like her to varying degrees, since fandom circlejerks itself into a frenzy when celebs die or suffer tragedy, who would also be walking the same streets.
Of course, that would be if she was walking around in ten thousand nuyen power suits and not like she's dressed in my avatar. In that case no one would have even looked twice.