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Vanessa van Arendonk

Curaçao model

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ7914735 ↗
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Vanessa Maria van Arendonk (born 22 November 1980 in Curaçao) is a Curaçaoan model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Curaçao 2003 and competed in Miss Universe 2003, held in Panama. She was the first Miss Curaçao to have the two most important beauty queen titles of the island under her name: Miss International Curaçao (2001) and Miss Curaçao Universe (2003).

Van Arendonk graduated from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Vanessa van Arendonk” is curaçao model. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Vanessa, Arendonk and Curaçao, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2003, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-11-22. For this dossier, Vanessa, Arendonk and Curaçao is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7914735. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980, 2003 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vanessa van Arendonk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.