Miss USA contestant to pay $5-million for defamation

“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,” reports Yahoo News today.usa

“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 Continue reading “Miss USA contestant to pay $5-million for defamation”