SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Miss Puerto Rico Petite competition canned the reigning queen . The pageant staff accused the young woman of "intolerable conduct" that included threatening and assaulting pageant staff.Keishla Villafane Rivera also used "coarse language" and violated her contract by agreeing to use her image in an advertisement without the pageant's consent.
Luis Santiago Productions, the pageant company, said it dismissed the 19-year-old queen after she made death threats and assaulted staff members.
But she said problems between the queen and pageant officials began shortly after the woman won the title last August.
The production company appointed another contestant, Tamara Perez, to serve the remainder of Villafane's term, which expires Aug. 26 with the next competition.
The contest is open to 16- to 24-year-olds who are 5-foot-5 or shorter. Villafane is 5-feet-2.
Beauty contests are taken very seriously in Puerto Rico. Five of its citizens have won the Miss Universe contest.
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