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BUDAPEST, Hungary - Seventeen-year-old Csilla Andrea
Molnar, the current Miss Hungary, committed suicide after complaining
of harassment over winning the national crown last year, the Hungarian
news media reported.
Molnar was found unconscious in her parents' home in the town of Fonyod
on Lake Balaton and taken to Siofok Hospital but could not be revived.
She died of an overdose of Lidocaine, a drug used as an anesthetic and
to control irregular heart beats, officials said late Friday.
"She took great amounts of poison and her heart could not bear it,"
said a physician, Istvan Schneider.
The girl complained in a recent Budapest radio interview of all the attention
focused on her after she won the crown.
"I don't know whether I can bear this," she said in the interview.
"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, Carito and Malta after winning the title and won
second place in an unofficial beauty contest on Malta in March. She had
also been invited to California in August.
The Miss Hungary competition is not connected with the Miss Universe pageant
or any other international contest, and there were no plans for her to
compete officially in other contests.
Hungary is the only socialist country that has beauty contests, which
have been criticized by some hard-liners.
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