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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Arbitrator: Beauty Queen Defamed Pageant, Owes $5M

A beauty queen who claimed this year's Miss USA contest was fixed has been ordered to pay the pageant organization $5 million for defamation.

In a decision signed last week, an arbitrator found that the comments from Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin were false, harmful and malicious. Monnin had alleged that the five finalists had been selected in advance of the pageant's live telecast.

The arbitrator, Theodore Katz, said Monnin had two motives: "She was a disgruntled contestant who failed to make it past the preliminary competition" and she objected to the pageant's decision to allow transgender contestants. He wrote that the way the contest is judged "precludes any reasonable possibility that the judging was rigged."

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

i will gladly console her.

Mr. Mcgranor said...

How can this ruling stand?

Anonymous said...

Malicious women are hot.

Anonymous said...

If I had to bet, I would bet she is correct. Everything has been corrupted, but the ones with the most money (the corrupted) always win in court.

Jim said...

She is hot but so were the other contestants. I am wondering how she will pay the 5 million.

Anonymous said...

How can transgendered compete in a women's beauty pageant? He definitely had to be rigged!

lmclain said...

Has Donald Trump (bankrupt TWICE!!) EVER lost a lawsuit in New York? Facts don't matter, but money does...