Larissa del Mar Fiallo Scanlon (born 17 June 1983 in

Concepción de la Vega La Vega, officially Concepción de la Vega (Real), is the third most populous city and a municipality of the Dominican Republic. It is the provincial capital of the homonymous province. The city is known as the Carnival epicenter of the Dominica ...

), commonly known as Larimar Fiallo, is a Dominican beauty pageant titleholder who represented her

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at the Miss Universe 2004 pageant. She represented her home province La Vega in winning the Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2004 pageant. Her mother, Gisselle Scanlon Grullón, represented the

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. Fiallo now works as psychologist.

Family

She was born to Alberto Emilio Fiallo Billini (1945–) and Giselle Josephine Scanlon Grullón (1956–), both prominent doctors. Her father was son of Margarita María Billini Morales, a

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, and Antinoe Fiallo Rodríguez; and thus, a nephew of Viriato Fiallo Rodríguez, and first cousin-once removed of

Oscar de la Renta Óscar Arístides Renta Fiallo (22 July 1932 – 20 October 2014), known professionally as Oscar de la Renta, was a Dominican fashion designer. Born in Santo Domingo, he was trained by Cristóbal Balenciaga and Antonio del Castillo. De la Renta ...

. Her mother, Giselle Scanlon, was born to Thomas Scanlon, an

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, and Zaida Grullón Gómez, a Dominican; Scanlon was also Miss Dominican Republic 1974 and is currently executive director of the ''Instituto Nacional de la Salud'' (''Insalud'').

References

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