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Beauty queen ordered to pay Miss USA pageant $5M for defamation

Last updated Monday, December 31, 2012 - 9:23am

PITTSBURGH — A Pennsylvania beauty queen who resigned after alleging that the Miss USA pageant had been fixed says she is stunned by an arbitrator’s ruling that she must pay the pageant organization $5 million for defamation.

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Contestant stands by claims that Miss USA event a sham

Randy Pennell The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, June 9, 2012 - 8:25am

PHILADELPHIA — The Miss Universe Organization says a former contestant should be made to pay for her "defamatory" claims that this year’s Miss USA pageant was a sham.

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Trump says there will be lawsuit over claims Miss USA pageant was rigged

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 5:55pm

PITTSBURGH -- The Miss USA pageant representative from Pennsylvania resigned her crown claiming the contest is rigged, but according to organizers the beauty queen was upset over the decision to allow transgender contestants to enter.

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Miss Rhode Island Olivia Culpo is crowned Miss USA 2012 during the Miss USA pageant, Sunday, June 3, 2012, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Miss USA Pageant 2012

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, June 4, 2012 - 11:46am

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Former Miss USA Rima Fakih appears before Judge Brigette Officer during a hearing and ordered to stand trial on a misdemeanor drunken driving charge at 30th District Court in Highland Park, Mich. Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. The judge set a March 14 trial date, but lawyers on both sides said they planned to talk in an attempt to resolve the case sooner. (AP Photo/Gary Malerba)

Former Miss USA picked up for DUI

Ed White The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 10:54am

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — Former Miss USA Rima Fakih has made an initial appearance in a Detroit-area courtroom in a drunken driving case.

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Jenelle Hutcherson, Miss Downtown Long Beach.

Miss California USA features two lesbian contestants

Ruben Vives Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 12:46pm

LOS ANGELES -- Amid the photographs of beauty contestants competing in Miss California USA this weekend are those of two young women who are making history.

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Former Miss Utah USA won't quit advancing her cause

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, October 29, 2011 - 9:23pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Jamie Lynn Crandall took off her crown recently, but she won't stop passing around the life-saving message that became her platform as Miss Utah USA 2011: "Hang up, Save a Life Before You Drive."

Crandall has spent her year as Miss Utah spreading the message to teenage drivers that it's not worth texting behind the wheel. She knows this all too well. In 2007, Crandall's friend, Lauren Mulkey, lost her life to a teen who was texting while driving.

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Alyssa Campanella, Miss California, is crowned as the 2011 Miss USA by Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih, Sunday, June 19, 2011, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Miss USA Pageant 2011

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, June 20, 2011 - 11:54am

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21-year-old Californian wins Miss USA crown

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, June 20, 2011 - 9:08am

LAS VEGAS — America’s latest Miss USA winner is a California model and self-described history geek, obsessed with Britain’s monarchy of centuries past but also a fan of "Star Wars."

Alyssa Campanella of Los Angeles says on Twitter that she was born in the wrong time period and played the popular pig-exploding game Angry Birds backstage on her iPad before the pageant Sunday night.

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