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BUDAPEST, Hungary - Seventeen-year-old Csilla Andrea
Molnar, Miss Hungary, committed suicide after complaining of harassment
over winning the crown last year, the Hungarian news media reported today.
Molnar was found unconscious in her parents' home Thursday in the town
of Fonyod on Lake Balaton and taken to a hospital but could not be revived.
She died of an overdose of Lidocaine, a drug used as an anesthetic and
to control irregular heartbeats, officials said.
"She took great amounts of poison and her heart could not bear it,"
said a physician, Istvan Schneider.
Her father went into shock on learning of her death and was hospitalized,
the Hungarian news media reports said.
In a recent Budapest radio interview, Molnar complained of all the attention
focused on her.
"I don't know whether I can bear this," she said. "Everybody
is harassing me. They ask: 'Where and from whom did you get those beautiful
clothes? Who helped you? Do you or your father have special connections
with the jury?' And so on."
Rumors circulated after she won the title last October that her father
had contacts on the panel that selected her.
Molnar visited Vienna and Malta after winning the title. She had also
been invited to California in August.
Beauty contests are not widespread in socialist countries although Poland
sponsors one. The contest in Hungary has been criticized by some hard-liners
as capitalistic.
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