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Osmel Sousa (Osmel Ricardo Sousa Mansilla) was born on 26 September, 1946 in Cienfuegos, Cuba, is a Venezuelan beauty pageant entrepreneur. Discover Osmel Sousa's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Osmel Ricardo Sousa Mansilla
Occupation President of the Miss Venezuela pageant 1981 – 2018 (retired) National director of the Miss Universe Argentina pageant (2019-2021) and Uruguay (2019)
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 26 September, 1946
Birthday 26 September
Birthplace Cienfuegos, Cuba
Nationality Venezuela

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1946

Osmel Ricardo Sousa Mansilla (born 26 September 1946) is a Cuban-Venezuelan beauty pageant entrepreneur, and the former president of the Miss Venezuela Organization.

Prominently known for his excellence in both pageantry and advertising, Sousa has been called "The Tsar of Beauty" for his significant role in producing the large number of beauty titles for Venezuela.

For what he is considered, as the best coach of beauty queens, worldwide.

1969

In 1969, Osmel Sousa went to work for the publicity company in charge of organizing the annual Miss Venezuela contest.

He was assigned to work with the Venezuelan Committee of Beauty.

1970

Sousa continued working with that committee when, in 1970, Ignacio Font Coll reconstituted it as the OPPA Advertising Agency, which in turn was the predecessor of the actual Miss Venezuela Organization.

In the 1970s, Osmel Sousa undertook advising selected contestants, many of whom went on to win the Miss Venezuela crown, at the same time he started designing nightgowns for most of the contestants.

1972

His first success was María Antonieta Cámpoli, who became Miss Venezuela in 1972, and went on to be 2nd runner-up in the Miss Universe contest.

1979

In 1979, Maritza Sayalero was the first Venezuelan contestant to admit that she'd had plastic surgery.

Sousa changed the way that the Miss Venezuela contestants achieved success and public attitudes on plastic surgery In Venezuela, and other countries plastic surgery received much more general acceptance and even became fashionable.

In recent years, Sousa has been also involved in several controversies related to same-sex marriage in Venezuela, by saying he's not only against it, but also against child adoption by same sex parents.

He also has said in many occasions he was estranged by his parents, and consequently sent to Venezuela when he was only a teenager, and even put him on hormonal treatment to make him "manlier" due to his sexual orientation.

1981

In October 1981 Ignacio Font Coll died and Osmel Sousa became the president of the Miss Venezuela Organization.

During his thirty-year career he has been considered to be the driving force behind the large number of Miss Venezuelas who go on to become Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth.

Sousa has been called a Pygmalion, an artist who turns out talented and beautiful young women.

To date, Venezuela has had seven Miss Universe titleholders, six Miss World winners, eight Miss International crowns, and two wins in Miss Earth, becoming the most successful pageant powerhouse in history.

1996

In 1996 he became the franchise manager for the Mister World for Venezuela; In 1998, he achieved his first success in this contest for male beauty, awarding the first title of Mister world to Venezuela, which was won by Sandro Finoglio.

2007

In 2007, Sousa joined with Lupita Jones, a former Miss Universe (1991), and Carlos Calderón, emcee of "El Gordo y La Flaca", in judging Univision's Hispanic beauty contest Nuestra Belleza Latina.

2018

On 8 February 2018, Sousa announced his public intention to retire from the position and was ultimately succeeded by Gabriela Isler as national director for the Miss Venezuela pageant.

Osmel Sousa was born in Rodas, a town in the province of Cienfuegos in Cuba.

When he was thirteen, his family sent him to live with his grandmother in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

After high school he studied with Horacio Peterson's acting company with Lupita Ferrer, Miguel Ángel Landa and Luis Abreu, but quickly realized that he was not cut out to be an actor.

He then briefly held jobs as an advertising draftsman and art designer for the two large television networks in Venezuela, the state owned VTV and the cable network RCTV.

On 6 February 2018, Sousa publicly announced his retirement from the Miss Venezuela organization after forty years of tenure.

2019

At the beginning of July 2019, Sousa announced, through his social networks, that he will assume the direction of the Miss Argentina beauty pageant.

Osmel Sousa has been involved in a number of controversies over the years, with everything from whether the color and style of dress that he picked was appropriate, to whether or not he advised plastic surgery for a particular contestant to the charge that he creates "fashion mannequins".