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.)
