Elly Koot

Elly Koot
Elly Koot in 1964
Born	1943 (age 78–79)
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Beauty pageant titleholder
Hair color	Blonde

Elly Tibina Koot (born 1943) is a Dutch model who won the 1964 Miss Europe contest in Beirut, Lebanon.^[1][2]

She was born in Rotterdam, where her mother was visiting family, but grew up in Amsterdam on the Singel near the Bloemenmarkt. She was discovered by the fashion photographer . She married Frank Brandt in 1966. She and Brandt (at that time a photographer) met while shooting a commercial for Rexona - a brand of deodorant - for which he was a stand in model. Though primarily a photo model, Amsterdam she did fashion shows for  [nl] and Fong Leng. From 1970 she also modeled in the United States for the Wilhelmina Models agency. In the 70s she was sometimes a jury member at Dutch beauty contests. In 1976 she developed Cushing's disease for which she had a successful surgery in the United States. Since 1996 she is Dame de Salon of Mart Visser's fashion house in Amsterdam.^[3]

The jury of Miss Amsterdam 1973. Left to right: Elly Koot, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Jeanette Sijnen, Ine Veen and Carry Tefsen

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External links[]

• Media related to Elly Koot at Wikimedia Commons

Awards and achievements
Preceded by	Miss Europe 1964	Succeeded by

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