Because of this incident and scandal, since then there has been careful monitoring of all the young women who get into major beauty contests.

Amparo Muñoz as she was when she won the Miss Universe title

Naturally, having an inquiring mind and with the resources of the Internet now available, I decided to check out this story last night. I found out that information about this subject was relatively hard to obtain. I learned from a Philippines web site of all places the name of the woman in question. I made a long search for photos. Finally, I found some. They were very hard to download, so I stole ‘em, and here they are.

What really surprised me is that she did not just drop out and disappear, the story I had always heard. Rather, she became a major film star in Spain. She has now starred in 22 Spanish language motion pictures, not counting the porn movies which she also made.

Spain's Amparo Muñoz won in 1974. She did not finish her reign, but became a soft porn star and made one movie in the Philippines where she was involved in a slapping incident and scandal involving money. Amparo Munoz is still a film star in Spain and starred in three 1996 movies, including: Lycantropus - The Full Moon Murders, and Familia, even though she is 43 years old! (She was born on 22 June 1954 in Málaga, Spain).

Please note: If you want to do an Internet search for Amparo Munoz you must also search for Amparo Muñoz, the way her name appears on all Spanish language web sites.

Here are the film credits of Amparo Munoz, plus some more of Amparo Munoz.

Amparo Muñoz as she soon appeared in pornographic motion pictures after she won Miss Universe

• Familia (1996) .... Carmen
  ... aka Family (1996)
• Fotos (1996) .... Rosa
• Licantropo (1996)
• Al acecho (1991)
• Luna negra, La (1989)
• Dos orillas, Las (1987)
• Delirios de amor (1986)
• Invitados, Los (1986)
• En penumbra (1985)
• Lulú de noche (1985)
  ... aka Lulu by Night (1985)
• Reina del mate, La (1984)
• Gran mogollón, El (1982)
• Hablamos esta noche (1981)
• Dedicatoria (1980)
• Mamá cumple cien años (1979) .... Natalia
  ... aka Mamma compie cent'anni (1979)
  ... aka Mamá cumple 100 años (1979)
  ... aka Mama Turns 100 (1979)
  ... aka Maman a cent ans (1980) (French title)
• Tahúr, El (1979)
• Anillo matrimonial, El (1978)
  ... aka Anello matrimoniale, L' (1978) (Italian title)
• Acto de posesión (1977)

Amparo Muñoz as she appears in the 1996 movie "Familia". She is on the far left.



• Del amor y de la muerte (1977)
• Mauricio, mon amour (1976)
• Otra alcoba, La (1976)
• Clara es el precio (1974)

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UPDATE: At 10:21 PM 2/23/2001 -0000, Alberto Otero wrote:

Dear Sir,

I was looking for information in internet about Amparo Muñoz when I have found your site and I must say I am really angry because of the stupid things I have read in it.

Amparo has never been a porn star and has never made a porn film. She just had problems with drugs years ago and a lot of personal problems because of that. She won Miss Universe and renounced because of the way she was treated as an object.

She is a famous, respected and remarkable actress here in Spain.

Nudity and erotic scenes are normal in European films. That doesn't mean they are porn. We can watch these films on national TV. Maybe this is something difficult to understand for Puritan American people, that think watching a "nipple" is dangerous for children, but they can watch violence without any problem.

We don't understand either how you choose a sod killer as the president of the nation.

Sincerely

Alberto Otero, Spain.

From: Sam Sloan sloan@ishipress.com
To: "Alberto Otero" elmerseiscientos@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Amparo Muñoz

Thank you for your well-written letter.

Would you give me permission to include your letter on my Amparo web site?

Sam Sloan

From: "Alberto Otero"

Hi Sam,

Thank you for attending to my letter.

Of course you have my permission. Please, change the word "thing" for "think" in the 12th line and "normal" for "usual" in the 10th and sorry about my English.

I understand that it's hard to find accurate information about Amparo Muñoz, unless you can read Spanish, but I hope you rectify your Amparo site.

According to IMDB she has made 35 movies (in fact more than 40) and no one is porn. She has also made theatre and TV. In 1975, after the 40 years Franco's dictatorship in Spain, she appeared in a naive full frontal nude scene, only a few seconds, but it was the first time in Spanish cinema.

Only 3 days ago, she was on a TV talk show. She said she wanted to renounce to Miss Universe just 15 days after winning it, but was forced to stay for 6 months. She has always told how pissed off she finished with the contest.

At that time this was a big scandal, because nobody had did that before. So I guess all that false legend about her, was made up for the organization of the contest to keep clean their prestige, after the Amparo's explanations.

Anyway, in my opinion she has been one of the very few "no-ugly" ones winners. Take the pic as a present, and sorry I was a bit rude in my letter before.

Alberto Otero

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Here are links:
• Interview of Amparo Muñoz in La Rivista
• Filmography for Amparo Munoz
• Lycantropus - The Full Moon Murders
• Order "Mama Turns 100"
• Familia
• Latinas A
• World Class Beauties
• List of All Miss Universe Titleholders and Finalists
• List of All Miss World Titleholders and Finalists
• My Personal Picks for the Miss Universe Contest.
• The Bangkok Nation article
• Two Women Fight Court Battle to Decide Who is the Real Beauty Contest Winner
• Miss Puerto Rico: Joyce Giraud
• Miss Spain Jose Besora Villanueva
• Miss Portugal Icilia Berengue
• Trump Rules in favor of Miss Puerto Rico
• Miss Universe Wendy Fitzwilliam
• Why are Beauty Contest Winners not Very Beautiful?
• The Miss Illinois and Miss America 1997 Controversy
• Order "The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson" from Barnes and Noble


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