keeps title despite racy photos but is barred from international pageants
PARIS — Miss France 2008 will keep her crown, despite racy photos that appeared recently in a gossip magazine, but will not compete in the Miss World or Miss Universe pageants.
Valerie Begue, 22, will not be stripped of the title she won Dec. 8, but will not be allowed to take part in upcoming international competitions, Miss France organizers said Friday.
Begue described the outcome as "a compromise which satisfies all parties.”
The pageant’s criteria stipulates that candidates must "never have posed or exhibited (themselves) in dubious outfits or poses, partially or totally nude.”
Photos published in Entrevue magazine last week included one of a bikini-clad Begue lying on a cross in a swimming pool and another of her licking what appeared to be yogurt or evaporated milk.
Begue is a native of France’s Indian Ocean island of Reunion. She is to be replaced in international pageants by the first runner-up, Vahinerii Requillart, Miss New Caledonia.
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LOS ANGELES — Lawyers will decide who gets these Academy Awards.
A judge has ordered mediation in a lawsuit over two Oscars presented to Mary Pickford and a third given to Charles "Buddy” Rogers, who was married to the actress.
If the mediation ordered Friday fails, a trial will be held next year.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is suing heirs of Rogers’ second wife, Beverly, to prevent the public sale of the statuettes.
The Academy claims that under its bylaws, it gets first chance to buy the Oscars for $10 each.
Pickford won the Academy Award for best actress in 1930 for "Coquette.” She received an honorary Oscar in 1976. Rogers won a humanitarian award Oscar in 1986.
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