Overview
- A video surfaced showing a 13-year-old contestant walking in a bikini and high heels at the Campania regional preselection
- Miss Italia rules require participants to be 18–30 years old, with the Mascotte tier reserved for 17-year-olds turning of age next year
- Patrizia Mirigliani denounced the appearance as a “moral error” and immediately terminated the contract with regional organizer Antonio Contaldo
- The contestant’s family, including a cousin managing her roughly 50,000-follower Instagram, asserted that she chose to participate voluntarily
- The incident has reignited criticism of underage sexualization at beauty contests and exposed procedural oversights amid no reported legal sanctions