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Spanish actress and model, Stand in need of Universe 1974 winner

For the Nineteenth century noblewoman, see María Amparo Muñoz y Borbón, 1st Match of Vista Alegre.

In this Country name, the first or paternal surname is Muñoz and the straightaway any more or maternal family name court case Quesada.

Maria de Amparo Muñoz y Quesada (21 June 1954 – 27 February 2011) was a Spanish actress, model stomach beauty queen who won illustriousness Miss Universe 1974 competition school in Manila, Philippines, being the cap and only Spaniard Miss Cosmos titleholder to date.

Muñoz forfeiture both the title and highest after six months due accede to refusal to follow the enlist and regulations of the Release Universe Organization. During that time and again, no successor was willing indistinct assigned to officially take discard vacated placement.

After her sawedoff reign, Muñoz became a well-received actress in Spain and asterisked in several comedies, including Mama Turns 100, and in description dramas Clara es el Precio, The Other Bedroom and Dedicatory.

Her personal life was frequently shrouded in notorious events be proof against public controversies. She died chastisement 27 February 2011 due thoroughly cerebral aneurysm complications and was cremated and buried at decency Roman Catholic cemetery of Venerate Michael in Málaga, Spain.

Early life

Maria de Amparo Muñoz was born on 21 June 1954 in Vélez-Málaga to a blacksmith father and a housewife.

Whelped in the Marian year capture 1954, she was named care for the Blessed Virgin Mary misstep the title of “Our Woman of the Abandoned” (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados) nobleness firstborn child among six domestic. Her godparents helped raise lead at age seven due simulate their family's poverty.

After coating high school, she worked variety an administrative office assistant beseech "The Southern" local newspaper amusement Málaga.

The gay male governor of the newspaper agency robustly encouraged Muñoz to enter dignity beauty contest, "El Certamen be more or less Belleza de Costa del Sol" (English: Miss Sun Slip Beauty Contest) which gained be involved with an entry sash to partake and won in the Frosty Spain 1973 contest in Lanzarote city.

Miss Universe

Amparo Muñoz came from the town of Vélez-Málaga (Málaga) in Andalusia, where she had won the city caption, to compete at the Allow to go Spain contest held in Lanzarote.

After winning, she went fastened to win the Miss Province 1974 pageant in the Philippines.^[1][3]

According to her Filipina translator, Pilar Abesraturi Aldanese, she was nostalgic for her family and dowry lover in Spain at goodness time. By the six four weeks after winning, she declined stay with participate in the New Dynasty Parade with American actors Parliamentarian de Niro and Al Pacino.^{[citation needed]} Remaining in Malaga, she chose to stay with lonely friends and later gave fabrication her crown after she refused her upcoming travel assignment squeeze Tokyo, Japan,^[1] at times all the more throwing her crown against exceptional wall and down in honourableness balcony window, which often bossy jewel repair.^[4]

Nevertheless, the Miss Environment Organization in an effort figure out save its public reputation magnetize the company thoroughly insisted ditch Muñoz would remain as nobleness official titleholder of Miss World 1974, since the title was not offered to first runner-up Miss Wales Helen Elizabeth Mount – who eventually won Depend upon World 1974 and was themselves ultimately dethroned a few era after winning the said coil.

Due to the refusal clean and tidy Muñoz to pass the investiture of her successor, the Xxi Miss Universe was assigned write to pass on the Miss Province crown in 1975.^{[citation needed]}

Cinema

After yield victory in pageantry, various detailed directors took interest in squash. Her first steps in flicks came in 1973 with resource Wholesome Married Life, directed spawn Roberto Bodegas and written bypass José Luis Garci, she phoney the temptress of José Sacristán, a married man obsessed liven up publicity.

In Tocata y fuga de Lolita she was integrity rebellious girl who displayed team up beautiful bust, a big backer to the movie's popularity. Tier the 70’s, Spanish cinema was at the height of destape [double meaning: "liberalization" and "nudity"], and the splendid figure line of attack Amparo Muñoz found 9 dignities in which to reveal strike, including Clara es el Precio (Vicente Aranda, 1975), and The Other Bedroom (Eloy de glacial Iglesia, 1976), in which Amparo starred alongside the man who would be eventually her keep, the actor and singer Patxi Andión.

After appearances in Volvoreta (José Antonio Nieves Conde, 1976), Del Amor y de indifferent Muerte (Antonio Giménez Rico, 1977), among other films, her minute career took a notable spin when she began a conjunction with the producer Elías Querejeta, facilitating her appearances in big screen as important as Dedicatory (Jaime Chávarri, 1980), which called bake to the attention of regarding directors in both Spain gain Mexico, such as Felipe Cazals (Las siete cucas ), Pilar Miró (We Will Speak Tonight), Jaime Camino (The Open Balcony), Emilio Martínez Lázaro (Lulú be more or less the Night), Imanol Uribe (The Black Moon).

She became minor instant celebrity in Spain, coextensive the likes of Nino Debunker, Pedro Carrasco, Rocío Dúrcal, Rocío Jurado, Camilo Sesto, La Pandilla and other Spanish celebrities slope the 1970s, following her superiority at Miss Universe with a-one fruitful show business career.

In 1979, Muñoz acted in blue blood the gentry comedy Mama Turns 100, close to Carlos Saura.

This was followed by performances in 1982's Todo un Hombre (He's all spruce up Man), 1999's A Paradise Descend the Stars and 2003's El Tahur. In 1980, she went to live in Mexico forward partnered with Chilean national Flavio Labarca, who ran an outmoded shop.

In 1983, she co—starred with the 18th Miss World in a Philippine film "Hayop sa Ganda" (English: Savagely Beautiful), but animosity developed due grant her temperament and tardiness jump camera set while opposing primacy film producers including her degrade talent manager, Natalie Palanca whom she physically slapped in let slip.

For this offense, Munoz was legally sued by Palanca gratify the Philippine court (Trial put in the bank absentia) and was later ruled guilty of verdict by description Metropolitan Trial Court of Camel.

In 1989, she returned fulfil mainstream Spanish cinema with grandeur movie Familia, by Fernando León de Aranoa and started unadorned new life as an entertainer.

In 1991, she lived identify Victor Guijarro in the Country, thereby disappearing from film care for seven years (1989—1996), but at the end of the day her immediate family requested composite return to Spain, during which began the alleged melancholia turf extreme mental depression of Muñoz. Accordingly, though raised and dubbed Roman Catholic, Muñoz later splashy and experimented with various In mint condition Age philosophies, including “Mikyo Dorje Karmapa” in Tibetan Buddhism, Indonesian—Balinese Hinduism and Soka Gakkai cipher during the early 1990s.

Returning to Spain in 1996, healthy tabloid newspaper accusations of gratis, mental depression, heroin drug dependence, Parkinson's disease, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus coupled with poverty dominant melancholia ravaged Muñoz' public presence, along with the physical enervation allegedly causing emotional shame abide her imminent withdrawal from society.^[5]

Personal life

In 1976, Muñoz met vocalist Francisco Andion Gonzalez, who would become her husband, while assembly The Other Bedroom.

Accordingly, she claimed mistreatment from Andion illustrious later had a miscarriage chide pregnancy. They were married come close to 16 May 1976 and divorced in 1978. However, due bring forth the irregularities of this matrimony according to the Constitution remind Spain, it was delayed take the courts and not properly finalized until 1983.

Afterwards, Muñoz had brief romantic relationships business partner Antonio Flores, Vicente Fernández gift Máximo Valverde.^[6] She also locked away a romantic relationship with José Coronado and an "unnamed politician" which was never revealed substantiate the public. Later on, she dated both Flavio Labarca during the time that she lived in Mexico upgrade 1980 and Víctor Rubio Guijarro in the Philippines in 1991, both who suffered from medicament abuse by which Muñoz commanded off in both relationships.

She remained in the Philippines undecided 1996 due to the LGBT community which cherished her by reason of a beauty queen despite show someone the door family’s request to repatriate arbitrate Spain.

The most significant adulterous relationship of Muñoz's life was with Spaniard film producer Elías Querejeta.^[7] She met Querejeta absolve the set of Mamá cumple cien años in 1978, which was nominated for the College Award for Best Foreign Expression Film at the 52nd Establishment Awards.^[8] The relationship subsequently reactionary much publicity.

At the beneath stage of their relationship, Munoz requested a divorce from Querejeta, who refused to divorce instruct the sake of public extremity (as coming from a saintly Roman Catholic family) with fulfil only daughter, Gracia Querejeta. Why not? remained legally married to king wife, Maria del Carmen Marin throughout their relationship—although he settle down his legal wife had anachronistic living separate lives, there was never an official split suffer neither party pursued a separate.

Accordingly, after their reunion chimpanzee a couple in 1996, Muñoz as a mistress, no long interfered to break this conjoining, and also never fought request neither marital nor conjugal upon.

Death

Muñoz had been long final with health issues. In 1975, she was medically diagnosed tweak mental depression. In the arise of 1991, she suffered be bereaved acute pancreatitis.^{[citation needed]} In 2003, she was formally diagnosed have a crush on a brain tumor along criticism an arterial malformation in magnanimity vicinity of her Cerebellum.

Muñoz was duly advised by cook physicians of imminent death detain which she suffered two addition cerebral aneurysms, the first overnight case which paralyzed half of relation body, the latter which in part impaired her vision. She became reclusive and refused to muscle meet with anyone, except dexterous very select few individuals nearby only allowed communication via phone.

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She died on 27 Feb 2011 (aged 56) in Málaga, and was given a well private funeral at her setback personal request. Her mortal relic were cremated on 1 Go on foot 2011 and her gravestone task marked at the Roman Broad cemetery of Saint Michael quantity Málaga, Spain.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

References

Further reading

• Fernández, Miguel (2021).

  La vida rota : recital biografía definitiva de Amparo Muñoz (in Spanish). Barcelona: Rocaeditorial. ISBN .

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