Father-in-law and Brother-in-law of Miss USA 1996, Murdered In Mexico

Film director Alejandro Monteverde with his wife, former Miss USA Ali Landry. 
Photo: Europics

[From article]
The father and brother of Mexican film director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, who is married to former Miss USA Ali Landry, were found dead after being held hostage for 16 days.
Juan Manuel Gomez Fernandez and Juan Manuel Gomez Monteverde were kidnapped in Tampico, a city in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, and were found dead a few weeks later with critical head wounds, Central European News reported.
Despite a ransom being paid to bargain for the father and son’s survival, the pair were murdered in a region known for drug cartel violence between Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel.

http://nypost.com/2015/09/23/film-directors-brother-father-found-dead-after-being-held-hostage/

Ali Landry’s father-in-law, brother-in-law found dead after being held hostage
By Melkorka Licea
New York Post
September 23, 2015 | 9:01am

NH Free Speech Advocate Will Hold "Draw Muhammad" Contest

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD: Jerry DeLemus of Rochester, N.H., shown yesterday with his copy of the Constitution, says he hopes his August ‘Draw Muhammad’ contest will go ‘completely peacefully.’
[From article]
Lightning rod anti-Sharia law activist Pamela Geller is applauding a New Hampshire man’s plan to organize a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in the Granite State this summer — and the organizer, a former Marine, says he isn’t looking for trouble but will be ready for it if it comes.
Jerry DeLemus of Rochester, N.H., said he is planning to hold a cartoon contest in late August on private property, though he said he hasn’t decided on a particular town or venue. He said it is intended as a “free speech” demonstration and an answer to extremists who threaten to harm anyone who depicts the Prophet Muhammad.
“My purpose is just to shine a light on what’s really going on in our country, and how we as a country are willing to give up our rights of expression when someone threatens to kill us, and how wrong that really is,” DeLemus, 60, said. He said he was inspired by Geller’s cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, last month, which was attacked by two would-be jihadis who were shot dead by security officers.
“I am glad to see other Americans organizing these events,” Geller said yesterday in an email to the Herald, adding she is “unable to attend this event, but wish it all success.
[. . .]
DeLemus is a Tea Party activist whose wife, Susan, serves in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. DeLemus made headlines last year as leader of a makeshift militia that faced down federal agents in a bid to stop the seizure of property from Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/06/terror_target_pamela_geller_backs_contest_plans

Terror target Pamela Geller backs contest plans
Monday, June 15, 2015
By: Jack Encarnacao
Boston Herald

Winning Cartoon of Contest in Garland, Texas Where Muslim Terrorists Were Killed

Winning Cartoon

[From article]
As authorities continue to investigate an attempted attack on a contest to draw the Prophet Muhammad in Texas on Sunday, the winner of the event has retreated into hiding, saying he faces persistent death threats.
Bosch Fawstin netted $12,500 for winning the contest’s grand prize as well as the “People’s Choice Award” for his drawing depicting Muhammad wielding a sword and saying, “you can’t draw me!”
In an interview on Tuesday, the cartoonist was vague about his whereabouts, saying only that he lives somewhere in the U.S.
“I don’t want to say where,” Mr. Fawstin said, also declining to say his age. “There are Muslims out there who want to kill me.”
Mr. Fawstin said he was raised by Albanian Muslim parents in the Bronx but eventually renounced his faith. He said the 9/11 terrorist attacks motivated him to use his art to denounce Islamic extremism.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/muhammad-cartoon-contest-winner-retreats-into-hiding-1430852911

Muhammad Cartoon Contest Winner Retreats Into Hiding
Man says he faces death threats after winning grand prize for drawing of prophet
By NATHAN KOPPEL

May 5, 2015 3:08 p.m. ET


Winning Cartoonist
Bosch Fawstin

Bess Meyerson, Dies at 90, Worked For John Lindsay, Ed Koch, US Senate Candidate, Obituary

 
Cover of her book


[From article]
Bess Myerson, a New York favorite daughter who basked in the public eye for decades — as Miss America 1945, as a television personality, as a force in public affairs and finally, under a harsher light, as a player in a shattering municipal scandal — died on Dec. 14 at her home in Santa Monica, Calif., her death occurring in the relative obscurity in which she had lived her last years. She was 90.

 
As Miss America

[. . .]
Her coronation, on Sept. 8, 1945, just days after Japan’s surrender had ended World War II, came at a time when a beauty queen could still capture the nation’s attention and even emerge a heroine — in Ms. Myerson’s case as the first (and, so far, only) Jewish Miss America.
[. . .]

 
Being Sworn By NYC Mayor John V. Lindsay

Mayor John V. Lindsay named her as the city’s first commissioner of consumer affairs. She seized on the job, succeeding in gaining passage of some of the nation’s toughest consumer-protection laws.
[. . .]
Few sponsors, it turned out, wanted a Jewish Miss America to endorse their products. Certain country clubs and hotels barred her as she toured the country after the pageant. Appearances were canceled.



Walking in New York With Ed Koch, Jackie Kennedy

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/nyregion/bess-myerson-miss-america-and-new-york-official-tarnished-in-scandal-dies.html?_r=0

Bess Myerson, 90, Dies; Famed for Beauty, Public Service and Scandal
By ENID NEMY and WILLIAM McDONALD
JAN. 5, 2015

Former Miss Venezuela Shot Dead

[From article]
A former Miss Venezuela and her Irish ex-husband were shot and killed and their 5-year-old daughter was wounded when they resisted robbers by locking their car doors after it broke down, police said Tuesday.
The murders of popular soap-opera actress Monica Spear, 29, and Thomas Berry, 39, were the latest high-profile crime in a country where people are regularly killed in armed robberies and where rampant kidnapping has ensnared even foreign ambassadors and professional baseball players.
[. . .]
Venezuela has one of the world’s highest murder rates, and violent crime is so rampant that residents tend to stay home after dark.
http://nypost.com/2014/01/07/former-miss-venezuela-shot-dead/

Former Miss Venezuela shot dead
By Associated Press
New York Post
January 7, 2014 | 4:03pm

Muslims Kill 19-year-old Beauty Pageant Contestant

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/05/31/2011-05-31_beauty_queen_stoned_to_death_by_muslims_for_being_in_pageant.html?r=topnews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nydnrss%2Fhome+%28Home%29

Beauty queen Katya Koren stoned to death by Muslims for being in pageant
BY Larry Mcshane
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, May 31st 2011, 11:21 AM

White Beauty Contest Winner at Black College


http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.48d4a7ee7157a03122c383175e63be4f.161&show_article=1&catnum=-1

White beauty queen at US black uni pens plea to Obama
Oct 16 11:23 AM US/Eastern
AFP
Breitbart.com