Georgina Rizk

Georgina Rizk is a Lebanese model, socialite and beauty queen who is best known as being Lebanons first and so far only Miss Universe. She is currently a main beauty pageant judge for the Miss Lebanon contest and is the current wife of Lebanese singer and actor Walid Toufic.

Rizk was born in Beirut in a Christian household, to a Lebanese father and Hungarian mother. Her mother was married to an Italian prior to marrying Rizks father. That union produced a daughter , fashion designer Felicina Rossi. She was crowned in the Miss Universe pageant in 1971 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. She was the first woman from the Middle East and the fourth woman from Asia to win the title. In the pageant, she made a memorable fashion statement by wearing a very revealing top and hotpants. The 1972 Miss Universe pageant was held in Cerromar Beach Hotel in Dorado, Puerto Rico. OnMay 1972, a month before the pageant telecast,Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico along with other victims, were killed during an attack at the Lod Airport in Israel . The massacre was perpetrated by three members of the Japanese Red Army on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . Due to the possible retaliation from the massacre, Rizk was not allowed to attend the Miss U

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