Mirta Teresita Massa

Mirta Teresita Massa is the first delegate of Argentina to capture the Miss International crown in 1967. She is the second Latin American to win the beauty pageant after Maria Stella Márquez Zawadzky of Colombia did it in 1960.

She became an instant celebrity in her country, grazing parades and fashion magazines. Mirta went on to pursue a career as a model, and was even offered some acting opportunities.

Mirta was also romantically linked with tennis player Guillermo Vilas. She eventually took up an interest in painting, and continues to do so upon retirement from modeling.

In 1999, she was wrongly reported to have died in a traffic accident in Trenque Lauquen. The fatality was a woman who was of the same age as hers (late 40s to early 50s). It was eventually clarified that the woman was not the ex-Miss Argentina, but just have the same name, Mirta Isabel Massa. [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.clarin.com/diario/1999/02/22/e-03902d.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Mirta%2BMassa%2522%2BArgentina%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D]

References

* http://cualquierapuedebloggear.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_cualquierapuedebloggear_archive.html