Miss Venezuela Kidnapped for Nude Photographs

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — After kidnapping and robbing Venezuelan model
Veruska Ramirez, thieves asked the former Miss Universe finalist to
sign her latest calendar as a memento, the model’s manager said Thursday.

Ramirez, a former Miss Venezuela, was robbed of a large quantity of foreign
currency and personal belongings and then kidnapped from her car for roughly
three hours in the central city of Valencia last week, Luigi Ratino told
the Associated Press.

The thieves saw a box in her car containing 15 calendars containing nude
pictures of Ramirez. They asked her to autograph the calendars and made
off with them, leaving her on a city street, said Ratino.

The brunette, who won the Miss Venezuela title in 1997 and was a finalist
in the Miss Universe pageant the following year, was not mistreated by
the thieves, Ratino added.

from CNN