Keishla Villafane Rivera, Petite Beauty Queen, Fired By Puerto Rican Pageant

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Miss Puerto Rico Petite competition stripped the reigning queen of her crown Friday, accusing the young woman of "intolerable conduct" that included threatening and assaulting pageant staff.

Keishla Villafane Rivera also used "coarse language" and violated the terms of her contract by agreeing to use her image in an advertisement without the consent of the pageant, the organizers said in a statement.

Luis Santiago Productions, the pageant company, said it was obligated to dismiss the 19-year-old queen after she made death threats and assaulted staff members. Its statement provided no details of the purported misconduct.

Villafane could not be reached for comment. Her attorney, Maribel Vidal, did not respond to messages left with her office in San Juan.

A pageant spokeswoman, Libni Garcia, declined in an interview with The Associated Press to disclose details about the accusations, saying more information would be released in a legal action the company plans to file against Villafane.

But she said problems between the queen and pageant officials began shortly after the woman won the title last August.

"We were trying to handle this conduct of hers, but it was impossible," Garcia said. "It was constant."

The production company appointed another contestant from last year's pageant, Tamara Perez, to serve the remainder of Villafane's term, which expires Aug. 26 with the next competition.

The contest is open to 16- to 24-year-olds who are 5-foot-5 or shorter. Villafane is 5-feet-2.

Beauty contests are taken very seriously in Puerto Rico, which has had five of its citizens win the Miss Universe contest.

Police last year opened an investigation into allegations that someone sabotaged a beauty contestant's bid for Miss Puerto Rico Universe by dousing her evening gown and bathing suit with pepper spray. The investigation was dropped for lack of sufficient evidence.

Comments

[jaiba]

guau! Of all the problems facing the island/USA colony, you choose to print this inconsequential article.

[mouselion]

No more mojitos for her!

[starcasmdotnet]

Carrie Prejean fell backwards into her dethronement - this woman walked right into it proudly! Here's some photos of Miss Congeniality:
http://starcasm.net/archives/6592

[dutch163]

boy, they just don't make beauty queens like they used to..LOL

put me down for: we don't need beauty pageants at all

[Mchris1947]

2nd!

[Nina28]

Madame Villafane! if she acts like she sounds, she'd make a good Street walking dominatrix.

[munki]

Let's just get rid of all beauty pageants...

WHY? too much make up...

[Baudacious Buccaneer]

But no! Show the world that beauty of face and form hide the brain of the gecko kingdom and the mentality of survival of the species!

[lil11]

No! They are too much fun and they give you something to do and work for and to work your talent out on. I am a former pageant runner up. I love it!

[punkindmb]

This isn't about sex?

[jenrose]

Lucky she's close to midget size because if she was a 6 ft or more she would beat the crap out of everyone even the cops and or anyone trying to restrain her. I wonder if she bites and pulls hair in the process??

I wouldn't want her as a neighbor, relative or coworker.

[beaupritchard]

"intolerable conduct" ... I was thinking something done on the hood of a '57 chevy.

[NilesCrane]

So what if she threatened people, she is ridiculously beautiful...have you ever met a latina who hasnt had a temper and threatened people? Please, its in the blood, it is why they can dance the flamingo from infancy and make it look sexy.

She needs to move to hollywood soon and get herself a gig working on a new reality show...

called

Here She Is, Miss (Anger) Management!....

obviously its a dating show...

[Mayela]

Wise, deep and totally unbiassed, right???. Please, learn about anything besides your own backyard, pal, seriously. I have never threatened anyone, nor have my mother, my sisters or any of my female friends. Although probably this will be too dense for you, let me try to explain. It's not in the blood. It's in the education and the information gatthered from a particular social group. It comes with upbringing and peer pressure. Don't tell me North American women don't threat. Well, you are right. Some of them don't threat. They don't even bother; they go straight to the action.

[publicprofile487]

You seem angry.

[Balzac]

I agree, it's cultural, but I like stereotypical, hot-tempered Latinas. It's much more endearing than the stereotypical passive-aggressive women from more pale cultures.

[fairtaxplease]

what happened, was she prolife?

[jjgg5]

Can't these stupid pageants just be stopped? Really, what could be more irrelevant?

[canuckgirl]

I say scrap the beauty pageants, all of them worldwide. Why? Women don't want to be treated like sex objects and evaluated by their looks.

The woman of today wants to be treated like an equal. She wants people to recognize and validate her on her smarts and her abilities and potential and what she has achieved and what she will achieve in the future - not because of her "figure" and how pretty or thin she is.

Women have taken enough of being displayed in public as porcelain
dolls for all the world to view via beauty pageants.

Women power is here to stay!

[EKD]

Apparently you are wrong. Apparently there are plenty of women that wanted to be treated like sex objects and evaluated by their looks. Otherwise there wouldn't be pageants.

[daemos1]

Rubbish! If what you say is true, where tdo all the contestants come from?

[nimblehuman]

Ummm...speak for yourself. The large number of women taking part in these contests the world over suggests you are mistaken.

Let's face it, most humans, whether males or females, are shallow and selfish jerks. Small wonder so many females show off their selfish jerkishness by being in these contests...

[Lucas]

The truth about women today is pretty much the opposite of everything you wrote.

[Egalitare]

Mission Accomplished: now a lot more people know who she is, and her agent can now shop her on various reality shows.

And yes, she is VERY easy on the eyes.

[RobertFromMN]

Spot on. Miss Puerto Rico Petite wasn't going to do anything for her. (Who'd even heard of it until now?) But if she's the lunatic who got the boot from Miss Puerto Rico Petite... not that's marketable. Bad behavior, once again, gets rewarded. What a sick world.

[RobertFromMN]

Oops... I meant to say "...NOW that's marketable".

[Poorsarah]

Well, I can honestly say that she did all she could to get fired...and it worked!!!