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May Miat Noe, a native of Myanmar and (brief) champion of the 2014 Miss Asia Pacific beauty pageant has apparently gone on the lam after contest authorities attempted to revoke both her winner status and her extremely pricey prize tiara, which the 18-year-old squirreled away with her before falling off the radar.

The Korean contest organizers claim that Noe’s status was revoked after it was discovered she’d apparently lied on her profile about… something (the agency appears reluctant to specify), and that she’d “been rude” to staff and extended a 10 day visit for her mother – which the agency paid for – to Seoul, where the contest was held, into a three-month sojourn.

Update: Reports now suggest that Ms. Noe is refusing to return the tiara, which is worth approximately US$100,000, until the contest’s organisers apologise for branding her a liar. The dethroned champion alleges that the contest’s director of media, Mr. David Kim, lied about her age and accused her of having undergone plastic surgery in order to give her career a boost. It was not her intention to take the tiara with her, Ms. Noe insists, but she now has no plans of returning it to the contest’s organizers without first receiving an apology.

But, as with all disputes involving large sums of money, there appears to be more to the story than what the contest organizers are letting on. Although Noe obviously can’t be reached for comment at this time, David Kim, the director of media for the Miss Asia Pacific pageant, also told press that they’d offered her a recording contract to become a singer if she agreed to get plastic surgery and breast augmentation.

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Read between the lines and one could conceivably draw the conclusion that some back door deals with Noe fell through – possibly when she refused the surgery – and the organizers decided to get vindictive, strip Noe of her title, and blame it on her with some flimsy attacks on her character.

The organizers did, after all, continue to pay for Noe’s mother’s visit for the entire three months when, if it was such a problem for them, they easily could have refused.

There’s quite a bit of they-said-she-said going on right now, and we probably won’t be able to truly get to the bottom of this one until Noe goes back on the grid.

(Note that some media outlets are reporting that Noe actually received breast augmentation surgery, while other outlets say she refused and indicate that that may have been the event that kicked all this off.)

Source: Yahoo.jp
Photos: May Myat Noe Facebook page