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Agnieszka Kotlarska-Świątek (15 August 1972 – 27 August 1996) was a Polish fashion model and beauty queen.
While studying at Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Agnieszka won the Miss Polski beauty pageant held at the Forest Opera in Sopot on 19 July 1991. On 13 October 1991, she became the first Polish winner of the Miss International beauty pageant held in Tokyo, Japan.
She went on to pursue a modelling career in the United States, represented by Ford Models in New York for the likes of Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. Around 1992, while working in New York, she married Jarosław Świątek, one of the organisers of the 1991 edition of Miss Polski. The couple later returned to their native Poland at the end of 1993 to settle in her hometown Wrocław.
Kotlarska narrowly escaped death when at the last minute, she backed out of flying on TWA Flight 800, which crashed with no survivors off Long Island, New York on 17 July 1996. Rico Puhlmann, who was Kotlarska’s chief photographer, was among the victims.
She was stabbed to death by a stalker on 27 August 1996. The attack also injured her husband, Jarosław Świątek. Her two-year-old daughter was a witness to the attack. She was laid to rest at Grabiszyński Cemetery on 30 August 1996. The assailant, computer programmer Jerzy Lisiewski, was subsequently sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, finishing his sentence in 2012. Lisiewski was later arrested for stabbing a Romanian man during an attempted burglary in the district of Psie Pole in 2014.
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Beautiful job of telling this sad story.
I was lucky enough to have worked with Aga a handful of times. In fact, in 1996, I directed a couple of TV commercial starting Aga, that we filmed in Venezuela, and after that a photo shoot for Amica (Italian beauty magazine), in New York City. A month later her agent called to tell me the sad news. She was beautiful and kind and so sweet. Such a tragedy.
pozdrowienia z Polski
She is one of the most beautiful woman… I wish she didnt experienced it.
My birthday is august 15th ❤from 2002 tho
She was one of the most beautiful women ever…
Congrats, Rina, you have now proven yourself to be capable of tackling the true crime genre. You can make true crime or tragic stories of former beauty queens as one of your alternate formats!
Great storytelling Rina. Loved the extensive research into this that you did (even the Polish articles), and loved the clips of Agnieszka in the background during your narrating. What a crazy story… even the part about the airline 😱 Wow, stalkers can be some of the most dangerous people out there.
Tragic indeed. You did an excellent job honoring her. Please make one on the dethroned queens… I find it an injustice when nudity was the reason when most of them are just victims as they were young and innocent.
Watching these videos of yours while having dinner is my ultimate ritual now !!!
I love this new format!
This seams similar to the Monica spears incident
Well that was depressing
This is an old story known for decades…
We should never underestimate the ability of others to harm us. In Saudi Arabia, I dated a Pakistani man with multiple personality disorder. One of the "others" told him to kill me. I escaped when I found knives hidden under my bed.