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Miss USA 1983, Julie Hayek, writing a book about ‘the pitfalls of dating powerful men’
Miss USA 1983 Julie Hayek is reportedly writing a book about ‘the pitfalls of dating high-profile men’ which will lift the lid on her string of romances with well-known billionaires.
Hayek’s former flames include Koch brother David, Prince Albert of Monaco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, real estate tycoon Richard Cohen and hedge fund manager Jim Chanos.
‘Julie hasn’t decided whether it will be a tell-all, or more of a lesson on the pitfalls of dating powerful men,’ a source told the New York Post’s
‘She is working with a ghost writer, but it is early days. She is going over her diaries to see what stories she has.’
The source warned that is she does write a tell-all book, a string of wealthy men could be concerned that their name will appear in its pages – and not in the most favourable light.
They added Hayek, 51, has much to spill on Koch, who she dated before he married to his now-wife Julia Flesher, with whom he has three children, in 1996.
The beauty queen turned down Koch, who is worth $37.8 billion, when he first asked her on a date in the 1980s as she was seeing Mitch Kupchak, the current general manager of the L.A. Lakers.
When she broke up with Kupchak in 1989, a few years after he had retired from playing basketball, she was with Koch for years. But he was dating numerous women at the same time, and they eventually split.
She later dated Prince Albert of Monaco for a matter of weeks in 1998. He married South African Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock last summer.
Hayek went on to date real estate magnate Cohen, whom she met on Match.com in October 2011 when he was using the name Flyboyny5987, she previously told the Post.
It came four years after he split from CNN anchor Paula Zahn following 20 years of marriage.
On their very first date she claims he told her: ‘You better go home and call your mom tonight, and tell her you’ve met the man you’re going to marry.’
Cohen flew her Argentina for a romantic getaway and claimed he wanted to spend the New Year with her on Anguilla – but it was an empty promise.
He simply stopped returning her calls but when she logged on to Match.com she could see that he was there too, spending hours hunting for his next target.
Hayek said last December: ‘It is disappointing… It’s very hurtful. He’s going to do the same thing to these other ladies… He’s so addicted to Match.com. I think he wants to get back at Paula.’
After winning Miss California and Miss USA in 1983, she went on to Miss Universe, where she scored top points in the swimsuit and evening gown segments before coming first runner up to the winner.
Since, she has worked as an actress, appearing in Dallas, Twin Peaks and As The World Turns.
Courtesy of Daily Mail Reporter
Miss USA: Rigged or Not?
It is bothersome that there is so much controversy involving pageants nowadays. Rating-booster or not, it’s just bad press altogether. In the last few years, we’ve witnessed the slow and painful deterioration of this industry.
Pageants used to be an integral part of the American culture. Family used to sit down in front of the television and watch the Miss America Pageant like they do with the Super Bowl. The winners in the old days received instant celebrity status and they are treated like royalty. What went wrong? Its appeal persisted among the baby-boomers but almost non-existent to the iPhone-using, XBox-playing, Twitter-sending, Facebook-posting generation of today.
The pageant industry has reached a milestone in the 90’s by abdicating tradition and let trends dictate its future. When Donald Trump acquired the Miss Universe Organization in the late 90’s, the world of pageantry changed forever. Pageants are now viewed and treated as business entities where ratings and profit margins are more important than anything else. In 2006, Miss America abandoned the Boardwalk Hall of Atlantic City, which has been its home for 85 years, and moved to the lights and glamour of Las Vegas. Its ratings decreased dramatically in the early 2000’s and the organization had to make some tough choices. They moved the pageant from network to cable and then back to network again in 2011.
Pageants will always have its share of controversy but it’s definitely turning for the worst. In the early days, majority of pageant controversy revolved around pregnancy, inappropriate photos and citizenship issues. These days, it revolves around drug addiction, drunk driving, weight gain, plastic surgery and felony charges. It’s the sign of the times!
The most recent controversy at the Miss USA Pageant takes the cake. A non-finalist contestant claims that the pageant was rigged. She claims that one of the other contestants saw a piece of paper listing the top 5 finalist before the pageant even began. Seriously? It’s totally unfathomable that the Miss Universe Organization, if they were indeed rigging the pageant, will leave a piece of paper of such importance backstage for everyone to see. It just doesn’t make sense. The pageant was broadcasted live to millions of audiences and there is no doubt that the women in the top 5 unequivocally deserved those spots.
Everyone knows that the Miss Universe Organization partakes in the selection of the semi-finalists. If you pay attention to the disclaimer statement right before the semifinalist’s names are announced, it is clearly stated that the votes of the preliminary judges, along with members of the Miss Universe Organization, determine who would make the first cut. Donald Trump acknowledged in an interview for a pageant documentary, that in the past, he had seen beautiful, extremely talented contestants, who he thinks are more deserving of competing for the title, have been eliminated and are backstage crying while less-deserving ones are out on stage competing. He doesn’t think that this is fair and as a business owner, he thinks that a company must have a say on whom they believe best represents their organization. He took immediate action and the organization started getting involved with the selection of semifinalists. Because of this, even if a contestant scores well in the preliminary competition, it doesn’t guarantee her a spot in the semifinals. The MUO clearly has the ability to modify the list of semifinalist at its discretion if they believe that the results from the preliminary judging is not up to par with their list of who they believe should move forward in the competition. Some people might consider this rigging and some will argue that it is simply influencing or persuading the results a certain way by injecting their opinion, but at the end, the result is still in the hands of the judges during the finals. What do you think?
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