Lara Bingle leaves Sydney for LA in search of work

Australian model Lara Bingle is said to have left Sydney for Los Angeles to find work.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Bingle, 22, is staying at the Beverly Laurel Motor Hotel in West Hollywood with hairstylist and close friend Max May, reports News.com.au.

She is understood to be leaving LA in upcoming days and flying to New York in search of other opportunities.

She was spotted wearing skin-tight Gucci pants, a ripped rock'n'roll T-shirt and with noticeably darker ash blonde hair, as she posed on April 15 for a magazine spread outside a 1950s-style diner at the retro hotel.

The photo shoot, in which Bingle was seen smoking a cigarette and looking "dishevelled", is understood to be for Aussie fashion magazine Oyster.