Several former pageant queens have done so died tragically after winning their crowns.
Ksenia Alexandrova She won Miss Universe Russia in 2017, eight years before she died after a fatal car accident at the age of 30.
“It is with deep sadness that we announce that our colleague and friend, model Ksenia Alexandrova, passed away last night,” wrote her modeling agency, Modus Vivendis. an August 2025 statement. “Ksenia was brilliant, talented and extraordinarily bright.”
A month after Alexandrova’s death, the beauty pageant community experienced another loss when the Jamaican beauty queen Tyra Spaulding he died at the age of 26.
“She was a radiant soul and an incredible human being. Her light, grace, beauty and kind spirit touched every life she encountered, leaving memories that will never fade,” the Miss Universe Jamaica organization said in a statement.
In December 2025, the news broke Raquel Escalante died at age 28 after a battle with cervical cancer.
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