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Former Miss Russia Busted Buying Vicodin with Fake Rx
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John Del Signore
Published May 20, 2010
Modified May 20, 2010
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Published May 20, 2010
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With a local Fox news crew on hand to document her humiliation, former Miss Russia Anna Malova was arrested Tuesday afternoon after allegedly using stolen perscription sheets to buy 85 Vicodin pills from a West Village pharmacy. Milova—fashionably attired in a black fur-lined coat and skinny jeans, toting a Burberry plaid umbrella—told a Fox 5 reporter she didn't know why she was being arrested, and had no answer to the reporter's maudlin follow-up question: "What do you tell little girls who look up to beauty queens like you?"
In 1998, Anna Malova was Miss Russia and a Miss Universe semifinalist, and was once romantically involved with George Soros and comedian Garry Shandling. It was all downhill from Shandling: Now the 38-year-old is charged with criminal possession of narcotics, forgery and criminal impersonation of a physician. According to the AP, several months ago Malova pleaded not guilty in a similar case in which she was "accused of stealing a prescription pad from another doctor — a psychiatrist who specializes in addiction — and using it to fill a prescription for 90 Vicodin pills."
This time the state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement was tipped off by another psychiatrist who reported that several prescription forms were missing from her pad following an appointment with Malova in late February. Narcotics cops told pharmacies to be on the lookout for Malova, who was actually a doctor in Russia. Then early last month, a pharmacist working at the pharmacy Malova was busted on Tuesday narced out the tall blonde. (In Russia, blonde narcs out you.)
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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