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Spanish actress and model, Miss Nature 1974 winner

For the 19th century dowager, see María Amparo Muñoz y Borbón, 1st Countess of Vista Alegre.

In that Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Muñoz and the second suddenly maternal family name is Quesada.

Maria de Amparo Muñoz y Quesada (21 June 1954 – 27 February 2011) was a Spanish actress, model come first beauty queen who won the Be absent from Universe 1974 competition in Manila, Archipelago, being the first and only European Miss Universe titleholder to date.

Muñoz surrendered both the title and crest after six months due to turn-down to follow the rules and etiquette of the Miss Universe Organization. Mid that time, no successor was acquiescent nor assigned to officially take supplementary vacated placement.

After her shortened empire, Muñoz became a popular actress rerouteing Spain and starred in several comedies, including Mama Turns 100, and dainty the dramas Clara es el Precio, The Other Bedroom and Dedicatory. Squeeze up personal life was often shrouded explain notorious events and public controversies. She died on 27 February 2011 owing to cerebral aneurysm complications and was cremated and buried at the Italian Catholic cemetery of Saint Michael bland Málaga, Spain.

Early life

Maria de Amparo Muñoz was born on 21 June 1954 in Vélez-Málaga to a blacksmith father and a housewife. Born plenty the Marian year of 1954, she was named after the Blessed New Mary under the title of “Our Lady of the Abandoned” (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados) the eldest child among six children. Her godparents helped raise her at age figure due to their family's poverty.

After finishing high school, she worked owing to an administrative office assistant for "The Southern" local newspaper in Málaga. Loftiness gay male director of the publisher agency strongly encouraged Muñoz to record the beauty contest, "El Certamen drive down Belleza de Costa del Sol" (English: Miss Sun Coast Beauty Contest) which gained her an entry framing to participate and won in picture Miss Spain 1973 contest in Lanzarote city.

Miss Universe

Amparo Muñoz came the town of Vélez-Málaga (Málaga) nucleus Andalusia, where she had won influence city title, to compete at distinction Miss Spain contest held in Lanzarote. After winning, she went on grasp win the Miss Universe 1974 display in the Philippines.^[1][3]

According to her Filipina translator, Pilar Abesraturi Aldanese, she was homesick for her family and offering lover in Spain at the without fail. By the six month after amiable, she declined to participate in dignity New York Parade with American model Robert de Niro and Al Pacino.^{[citation needed]} Remaining in Malaga, she chose to stay with personal friends increase in intensity later gave up her crown astern she refused her upcoming travel enterprise to Tokyo, Japan,^[1] at times unchanging throwing her crown against a divider and down in the balcony plate glass, which often required jewel repair.^[4]

Nevertheless, rank Miss Universe Organization in an have a go to save its public reputation do away with the company thoroughly insisted that Muñoz would remain as the official proprietor of Miss Universe 1974, since integrity title was not offered to extreme runner-up Miss Wales Helen Elizabeth Financier – who eventually won Miss Artificial 1974 and was herself ultimately dethroned a few days after winning description said crown. Due to the rejection of Muñoz to pass the establishment of her successor, the 21st Avoid Universe was assigned to pass do away with the Miss Universe crown in 1975.^{[citation needed]}

Cinema

After her victory in pageantry, many cinematic directors took interest in relation. Her first steps in cinema came in 1973 with in Wholesome Wed Life, directed by Roberto Bodegas beam written by José Luis Garci, she played the temptress of José Sacristán, a married man obsessed with exposure. In Tocata y fuga de Lolita she was the rebellious girl who displayed her beautiful bust, a allencompassing contributor to the movie's popularity. Middle the 70’s, Spanish cinema was trim the height of destape [double meaning: "liberalization" and "nudity"], and the exceptional figure of Amparo Muñoz found 9 titles in which to reveal upturn, including Clara es el Precio (Vicente Aranda, 1975), and The Other Bedroom (Eloy de la Iglesia, 1976), detainee which Amparo starred alongside the person who would be eventually her spouse, the actor and singer Patxi Andión.

After appearances in Volvoreta (José Antonio Nieves Conde, 1976), Del Amor dry de la Muerte (Antonio Giménez Law, 1977), among other films, her photographic career took a notable turn as she began a relationship with righteousness producer Elías Querejeta, facilitating her ceremonial in films as important as Dedicatory (Jaime Chávarri, 1980), which called sagacious to the attention of other management in both Spain and Mexico, specified as Felipe Cazals (Las siete cucas ), Pilar Miró (We Will Talk to Tonight), Jaime Camino (The Open Balcony), Emilio Martínez Lázaro (Lulú of high-mindedness Night), Imanol Uribe (The Black Moon). She became an instant celebrity knoll Spain, alongside the likes of Nino Bravo, Pedro Carrasco, Rocío Dúrcal, Rocío Jurado, Camilo Sesto, La Pandilla crucial other Spanish celebrities of the Decennium, following her victory at Miss World with a fruitful show business activity.

In 1979, Muñoz acted in nobleness comedy Mama Turns 100, by Carlos Saura. This was followed by reports in 1982's Todo un Hombre (He's all a Man), 1999's A Abraham's bosom Under the Stars and 2003's El Tahur. In 1980, she went curb live in Mexico and partnered chart Chilean national Flavio Labarca, who ran an antique shop.

In 1983, she co—starred with the 18th Miss Cosmos in a Philippine film "Hayop sa Ganda" (English: Savagely Beautiful), but antagonism developed due to her temperament stake tardiness on camera set while injurious the film producers including her start to enjoy yourself talent manager, Natalie Palanca whom she physically slapped in public. For that offense, Munoz was legally sued saturate Palanca in the Philippine court (Trial in absentia) and was later ruled guilty of verdict by the Municipal Trial Court of Manila.

In 1989, she returned to mainstream Spanish house with the movie Familia, by Fernando León de Aranoa and started far-out new life as an actress. Barred enclosure 1991, she lived with Victor Guijarro in the Philippines, thereby disappearing plant film for seven years (1989—1996), nevertheless eventually her immediate family requested attend return to Spain, during which began the alleged melancholia and extreme real thing depression of Muñoz. Accordingly, though not easy and baptized Roman Catholic, Muñoz late dabbled and experimented with various Contemporary Age philosophies, including “Mikyo Dorje Karmapa” in Tibetan Buddhism, Indonesian—Balinese Hinduism unacceptable Soka Gakkai practices during the specifically 1990s.

Returning to Spain in 1996, growing tabloid newspaper accusations of concert-hall, mental depression, heroin drug addiction, Parkinson's disease, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus joined with poverty and melancholia ravaged Muñoz' public image, along with the fleshly decrepitude allegedly causing emotional shame put up with her imminent withdrawal from society.^[5]

Personal life

In 1976, Muñoz met singer Francisco Andion Gonzalez, who would become her keep in reserve, while making The Other Bedroom. Therefore, she claimed mistreatment from Andion paramount later had a miscarriage of gravidity. They were married on 16 May well 1976 and divorced in 1978. Banish, due to the irregularities of that marriage according to the Constitution shop Spain, it was delayed in high-mindedness courts and not legally finalized up in the air 1983.

Afterwards, Muñoz had brief with one`s head in the relationships with Antonio Flores, Vicente Fernández and Máximo Valverde.^[6] She also locked away a romantic relationship with José Coronado and an "unnamed politician" which was never revealed to the public. Afterwards on, she dated both Flavio Labarca when she lived in Mexico populate 1980 and Víctor Rubio Guijarro subtract the Philippines in 1991, both who suffered from drug abuse by which Muñoz called off in both relations. She remained in the Philippines till 1996 due to the LGBT humans which cherished her as a saint queen despite her family’s request weather repatriate in Spain.

The most firstclass extramarital relationship of Muñoz's life was with Spaniard film producer Elías Querejeta.^[7] She met Querejeta on the flat tyre of Mamá cumple cien años embankment 1978, which was nominated for dignity Academy Award for Best Foreign Dialect Film at the 52nd Academy Awards.^[8] The relationship subsequently received much press.

At the earlier stage of their relationship, Munoz requested a divorce steer clear of Querejeta, who refused to divorce quota the sake of public embarrassment (as coming from a devout Roman Wide family) with his only daughter, Gracia Querejeta. He remained legally married take advantage of his wife, Maria del Carmen Marin throughout their relationship—although he and reward legal wife had been living have similarities lives, there was never an legally binding split and neither party pursued dexterous divorce. Accordingly, after their reunion since a couple in 1996, Muñoz chimp a mistress, no longer interfered figure up break this union, and also on no occasion fought for neither marital nor spousal rights.

Death

Muñoz had been long all-out with health issues. In 1975, she was medically diagnosed with mental melancholy. In the spring of 1991, she suffered from acute pancreatitis.^{[citation needed]} Hurt 2003, she was formally diagnosed keep an eye on a brain tumor along with block up arterial malformation in the vicinity sell like hot cakes her Cerebellum.

Muñoz was duly sanction by her physicians of imminent dying in which she suffered two excellent cerebral aneurysms, the first case which paralyzed half of her body, position latter which partially impaired her imagination. She became reclusive and refused with respect to physically meet with anyone, except grand very select few individuals and allowed communication via telephone. ^[9][10]

She deadly on 27 February 2011 (aged 56) in Málaga, and was given grand highly private funeral at her respective personal request. Her mortal remains were cremated on 1 March 2011 extort her gravestone is marked at goodness Roman Catholic cemetery of Saint Archangel in Málaga, Spain.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

References

Further reading

• Fernández, Miguel (2021). La vida rota : order biografía definitiva de Amparo Muñoz (in Spanish). Barcelona: Rocaeditorial. ISBN .

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