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Why is it always a scandal in these pagents ???
The woman recently named Miss Dominican Republic will have to relinquish her crown
because she is actually a Mrs. The rules state that those vying for the crown must be single,
and that is a problem for the recent winner, Carlina Duran. Magaly Febles, director of the
Miss Domincan Republic contest, said Tuesday it had been discovered that Mrs Duran was
married in 2009. To complicate matters, Mrs Duran said in a statement read at a Wednesday
night news conference that she had never lived with her husband. ‘In my daily life, I re-
mained like a single woman, without thinking of myself neither materially nor spiritually
married,’ said the statement, read by her lawyer. The statement also said the marriage was
brief, and the couple had begun annulment proceedings. The statement didn’t specify whether
the annulment was finalized. Mrs Duran’s statement called her decision to hide her marriage
from the contest organizers the ‘fruit of my inexperience.’ Ms Febles officially handed the
crown to first runner-up, 24-year-old Dulcita Lieggi, at the news conference. The 25-year-old
Duran, who owns a spa in Santo Domingo, hails from the town of La Vega, about 95 miles north
of the nation’s capital. She was crowned Miss Dominican Republic on April 17 and was to repre-
sent her country at the Miss Universe contest, but that dream is no longer possible. The Domi-
nican newspaper Diario Libre reported on its website Tuesday that a marriage license showed
she was wed on June 6, 2009.
