Patricia Southall
Patricia "Pat" Annette Smith (née Southall) (born 1971) is the founder and spokesperson of Treasure You. The former beauty queen from Portsmouth, Virginia is a James Madison University journalism graduate who won the Miss Virginia USA crown in late 1993. Representing Virginia in the Miss USA 1994 pageant, Southall placed first runner-up to Lu Parker of South Carolina.[1]
Southall was married to actor-comedian Martin Lawrence from 1995 to 1996. She and Lawrence met in the summer of 1992, while she was working in Gov. L. Douglas Wilder's media office. Lawrence was appearing in Richmond at a Def Comedy Jam concert.
Following her divorce from Lawrence, she later married football star Emmitt Smith on April 22, 2000.
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- ^ Little, Robert (1994-02-13). "Mom's Death Inspired Miss USA contender". The Virginia Pilot. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=VP&p_theme=vp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAFF71A4C4159ED&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
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