Csilla Andrea Molnár (20 January 1969 – 10 July 1986) was a Hungarian

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. She was crowned

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on 5 October 1985, in

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, the first Hungarian beauty queen after a 50-year interval. She also entered for the Miss Europa 1986 beauty contest in Malta, where she came in third place. She committed suicide on 10 July 1986 by overdosing on lidocaine. In a radio interview, shortly before her death, she complained of being harassed by the public saying: "I don't know whether I can bear this, everybody is harassing me. They ask: Where and from whom did you get those beautiful clothes? Who helped you? Do you or your father have special connections with the jury? And so on". She was the subject of a 1987 book ''Isten óvd a királynőt! – a felszabadulás utáni első – eddig egyetlen – magyar szépségkirálynő, Molnár Csilla Andrea életének és halálának hiteles dokumentumai'' ("God Save the Queen! – the first authentic documentary on the life and death of Csilla Andrea Molnár, the first – and so far only – Hungarian beauty queen after the liberation") by (HP Hungaroprop Kulturális Kiadó, ). The 1987 film ' (''Pretty Girls''), directed by and , explored the story of the beauty contest and Molnar's death. Her life and death continues to be a source of interest in modern Hungarian news media. On 20 January 2019, several Hungarian newspapers reviewed her biography on what would have been her 50th birthday.

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* * 1969 births 1986 deaths 1986 suicides Hungarian beauty pageant winners Hungarian female models People from Kaposvár Drug-related suicides in Hungary {{Europe-pageant-bio-stub