Magali Febles

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Magali Febles (born 1951) is a famous Dominican beautician. She is the former owner of two luxurious salons,Magali Febles Salon and Spa in San Juan. Unfortunately for Febles, due to financial complications, she had no other choice but to sell these and dedicate her time to events production.

Magali Febles

Febles was named in 2003 as new national director of the Miss Puerto Rico contest. As such, she travels each year to the Miss Universe contest with Puerto Rico's representantives while she holds that position. In May of 2003 she travelled to Panama to watch for every detail concerning the care and behaviour of Miss Puerto Rico 2003, Carla Tricoli, in the weeks before the 2003 Miss Universe contest.

Febles gained nationwide fame in Puerto Rico towards the late 1990s and the early 2000s, as the organizers of both Miss Puerto Rico Universe and Miss World Puerto Rico contests began assigning her to care for every detail concerning their respective winner's beauty care. She has been the object of many newspaper and magazine articles, and, after Tricoli won the Miss Puerto Rico contest, Periodico El Vocero published a photo article that showed her flying with Tricoli to Tricoli's native town of Vieques, where they were received by a small gathering of fans at Vieques airport.

Rumors surfaced, in September of 2003, that Febles was interested in becoming the national director of the Miss Republica Dominicana contest too. At the time, Febles did not deny or confirm this, saying only that that "seems like an interesting idea". On November of 2003, with Amelia Vega on her left, Febles was announced as the new national director of Miss Republica Dominicana, becoming the first Dominican to head two Miss Universe affiliated contests at the same time. In 2005 complaints arose that Miss Republica Dominicana pageant had to be managed locally due to financials contrains in part of Febles.

On September of 2005, she was sued by Miss Puerto Rico 2005, Cynthia Olavarria, who allegued mistreatment towards Miss Puerto Rico winners and favoritism towards Miss Dominican Republic winners by Febles. The lawsuit also allegued that previous Miss Puerto Rico winners had also suffered mistreatment by Febles. Febles answered by stating on national television that she does not have that amount of money. Alleguedly, she also sent a representant of hers to ask Olavarria to give up her title as Miss Puerto Rico during one of Olavarria's personal appearances.