Csilla Molnár
Hungarian model and beauty queen
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Csilla Andrea Molnár (20 January 1969 – 10 July 1986) was a Hungarian beauty queen. She was crowned Miss Hungary on 5 October 1985, in Budapest, the first Hungarian beauty queen after a 50-year interval.[2] She also entered for the Miss Europa 1986 beauty contest in Malta, where she came in third place.[2]
20 January 1969
Suicide
She committed suicide on 10 July 1986 by overdosing on lidocaine.[3][4] In a radio interview, shortly before her death, she complained of being harassed by the public saying: "I don't know whether I can bear this, 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".[2]
She was the subject of a 1987 book Isten óvd a királynőt! – a felszabadulás utáni első – eddig egyetlen – magyar szépségkirálynő, Molnár Csilla Andrea életének és halálának hiteles dokumentumai ("God Save the Queen! – the first authentic documentary on the life and death of Csilla Andrea Molnár, the first – and so far only – Hungarian beauty queen after the liberation") by Sándor Friderikusz (HP Hungaroprop Kulturális Kiadó, ISBN 9789635006267).[5]
The 1987 film Szépleányok (Pretty Girls), directed by András Dér and László Hartai, explored the story of the beauty contest and Molnar's death.[6][7]
Her life and death continue to be a source of interest in modern Hungarian news media.[8][9][10]
On 20 January 2019, several Hungarian newspapers reviewed her biography on what would have been her 50th birthday.[11][12]
Bibliography
- Sándor Friderikusz [in Hungarian] (1987). God, Protect the Queen!. HP Hungaroprop Kulturális Kiadó. ISBN 9789635006267.
