Ex-Miss USA Accused of Shoplifting Beauty Products

[Elmore Furth]

My ideals have been shattered. Marc McGuire used steroids and now Miss USA is caught shoplifting.



I thought it was a scholarship contest.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 4, 2010
Filed at 9:20 p.m. ET

DENTON, Texas (AP) -- Police say a former Miss USA has been released from a Texas jail after she was accused of stealing almost $90 in beauty products from a Target store.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Wednesday that 38-year-old Shannon Marketic was released after posting a $500 bond in the north Texas town of Denton.

Marketic is charged with stealing an Oil of Olay Professional ProX skin treatment worth around $60, along with some baby items. She told The Dallas Morning News the items had rolled beneath her purse in her shopping basket without her knowledge and she denied shoplifting.

Marketic won the Miss USA title in 1992. In 1997, she sued the sultan of Brunei, accusing him of having held her as a sex slave. A federal judge threw out the lawsuit.


Ex-Miss USA Accused of Shoplifting Beauty Products

[mix]

1. She sounds complicated. nt

[Ikonoklast]

2. Is that a different way to say nuts?

I can imagine this person's life is just one series of chaotic events, one after the other.

[seabeyond]

3. was she hangin with guiliani daughter. what is this with shoplifting. nt

[MajorChode]

4. I saw that on the local news

She wrote some books about "inner beauty" a few years ago. I guess all that stuff takes on a different meaning when parts start going south and you need your Oil of Olay fix.

[qb]

5. She can join Winona Ryder's 5-finger discount support group.