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Sunday 14 April 2019

R.I.P ( Beauty Queens )

Karol Castillo - Miss Universe Peru 2008
On 10 April 2013, Castillo was found dead in her bed while on a trip to Australia, having suffered from a cardiac arrest. Castillo had travelled to Australia with pageant coach Diego Alcade Sangalli to help with the Miss Teen Australia pageant


Sofía Silva Inserri - Miss Universe Venezuela 1952
Silva died on 21 April 2011 in Bogotá, Colombia, at the age of 82.


Susana Duijm - Miss World 1955
Died on June 18, 2016


Olga "Olguita" Antonetti Núñez - Miss Universe Venezuela 1962
Antonetti died in a plane crash on December 12, 1968, at the age of 23.


Maye Brandt - Miss Universe Venezuela 1980
Brandt died in 1982 as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 22.


Eva Ekvall - Miss Universe Venezuela 2000
When told to have had a recurrence of her disease, Ekvall moved to the United States and checked into University General Hospital in Houston, Texas. Despite the intense medical treatment, her health condition began deteriorating and she died in the afternoon of December 17, 2011.


Mónica Spear - Miss Universe Venezuela 2004
On 6 January 2014, Spear was in her native Venezuela on vacation with her ex-husband and their five-year-old daughter. On a highway in central Carabobo, when the three were inside their car waiting for assistance after the vehicle had broken down, Spear and her ex-husband were killed during an attempted robbery and their daughter shot and wounded in the leg.


Luz Marina Zuluaga - Miss Universe 1958
She died on December 2, 2015 at the age of 77 at her home in Manizales.


Chelsi Smith - Miss Universe 1995
Smith was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2017. Growing increasingly weak throughout 2018, she traveled to her mother's home in Mifflin, Pennsylvania, and she died there at the age of 45 on September 8, 2018.


Hillevi Rombin - Miss Universe 1955
She, her husband, and one of their sons died in a plane crash in 1996, the result of an engine failure shortly after take-off. She was 62 years old and the first Miss Universe to pass away. She and her husband and their son are buried together at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.


Melody Gersbach - Miss International Philippines 2009
Gersbach died in a car accident around 11 a.m. on August 21, 2010, when the Toyota Innova she was traveling in collided head-on with a Raymond passenger bus in Barangay Pawili in Bula, Camarines Sur.


Chat Silayan - Miss Universe Philippines 1980
Silayan died aged 46 on April 23, 2006 due to colon cancer. She was survived by her husband Michael Bailon and three children, Victor Margheriti, Timothy Bailon, and Micaela Bailon. Her grave is located in Manila Memorial Park, Paranaque City.

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