Model Drug Lordette: Angie Sanclemente on the run

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No one ever said the life of a model was an easy one. Sure there's the glitz and the glamour that surrounds it all--from catwalks to photoshoots, the life of making a living off of simply being beautiful. The stuff of the greenest of envies. But, as with all glamorous industries, there is of course a cesspool of an underbelly that has always surrounded the modelling world, pre-pubescent young girls being taken from their homes in, say, Eastern Europe or Russia, carted over to the likes of Paris, London or New York, grouped into houses with other models just to be poked and prodded at the hands of their agents, stylists, designers etc. And being paid, most of the times, very very little. 

So today, whence I logged onto my computer and, as per usual, scoped out CNN.com (my homepage), I certainly had cause for pause upon seeing the following headline: Model, allegedly drug queen, on the lam. Colombian beauty Angie Sanclamente is on the run, Interpol has officially issued an international warrant for her arrest. The charge? The aging model (now 30) is accused of being a "queen pin" of an international drug operation that uses models as drug mules, moving boatloads of coke illicitly out of the Buenos Aires airport rather than breezy neutral chiffon separates down a Spring/Summer catwalk. 

It's like something out of CSI, or even Nip/Tuck. Remember the hookers whose enormous silicone implants were used for just the same purpose in season 1? The sick thing is that this isn't daytime TV we're talking about. 

Six people in total have been arrested so far in connection to the cartel, and of those, one has coughed up the fact that Sanclemente and her boyfriend, an Argentine male model (now also in custody), were indeed the trafficking ring's perfectly bone structured ring leaders. 

In situations like these, the stuff of rated R action flicks starring Nicholas Cage (Megan fox as Sanclamente, anyone?), the how and the why always remain the crux of the thing. 

A woman, who refused to be named, told CNN: "Narcotraffickers go to beauty pageants to buy the women they like. In other cases they sponsor candidates, paying for their outfits, their plastic surgery and even bribing the judges so their girl wins." Disgusting. 

Despite the fact that the international modelhunt slogs on, not only has the pretty trafficker continued to slip through the law's grip (allegedly a bit of hair dye and some blue contacts have done her wonders), she has continued to update her Facebook page (as the manhunted are wont to do). She even sent CNN a direct FB message this week, writing:  "I'm very sad and hurt by the bad information. I don't know how the press can destroy an innocent person." I really hope Interpol are tracking this girl's twitter. RT@Queenpin112 anything you facebook can and will be used against you in a court of law...

Click here for the CNN story To my fellow Americans: Our most beloved silver fox will be charting the topic on AC 360 CNN tonight 10 PM ET (2 AM GMT)