Playboy Special Editions - The Crowning of Miss Tropic Beauty 2013

It was four days of fabulous females with fashion parades, bikini runway walks and hot, short club wear for parties for the 100 Tropic Beauty Model Search contestants from 20 countries at MGM Grand.

The third annual world finals wrapped in the resort’s entrance lobby with 2012 winner Ligia Hernandez, 27, of Venezuela passing her tiara to blonde-haired Linda Zimany, 26, from Budapest, Hungary.

Linda studies law at KRE University in Budapest. She began modeling at age 14 and won her first pageant in 2001 as Miss Cyberspace Hungary. Linda shot a nude 12-page pictorial for the Hungarian edition of Playboy Magazine in May 2010. It landed her TV hosting and European modeling assignments that brought her to L.A.

Her 2013 Tropic Beauty model contract is worth $80,000. Linda is 6’, 123 pounds and measures 34D-24-35. Another Playboy cover in Hungary wound up on the cover in 11 other worldwide editions, including South Africa and Britain. Working on Hungarian TV for three years as a show host, she also appeared in that country’s edition of I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here.

Linda was the European winner of Miss Bikini World and placed first runner-up in the Queen of the World pageant a year ago. Our contributing photographers were kept busy covering the beauties, who really dazzled in national costumes.

Linda told she was still gasping for breath after winning: “I can’t believe this happened. I came here never expecting to win. I hoped but didn’t think it was possible. Now I hope this will lead to American modeling work and maybe more in Hollywood. That’s what we always dream of.

“But I have loved Las Vegas the short time I am here, and I could easily live here. It’s so much fun.”