Denny M%C3%A9ndez

Denny Andrena Mndez de la Rosa is a DominicanItalian actress, model and beauty queen who represented Italy in the Miss Universe 1997 and placed Top 6.

Denny Mndez160... born in the Dominican Republic, was named Miss Italy after receiving nine million telephone votes from the television audience. Nine million Italians voted to shatter the prism of race, just by watching a TV beauty pageant and phoning in their votes! Beauty is, indeed, in the eye of the beholder, and the eyes of the world today are quite capable of seeing past skin color. The Italian peoples choice was Denny Mndez, notwithstanding the objections of a pageant official who said, A black girl cant be Miss Italy. Its not in the rules.

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