Sheena Monnin resigned as Miss Pennsylvania after the pageant.
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Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin has been ordered to pay Donald Trump $5 million for defamation of the Miss USA pageant, an arbiter ruled.
A contestant who claimed the Miss USA contest was fixed has been ordered to pay the pageant $5 million for defamation.
In a decision signed last week, an arbitrator found that the comments from Sheena Monnin were false, harmful and malicious.
Monnin was Miss Pennsylvania.
The arbitrator said there’s no reasonable possibility the judging was rigged.
Monnin did not participate in the arbitration. Her lawyer’s office said he had no comment.
The arbitrator said Monnin was disgruntled about not making it past the preliminary rounds. He also said she objected to the pageant’s decision to allow transgender contestants. She resigned as Miss Pennsylvania after the pageant.
The arbitrator said Monnin’s allegations on Facebook and NBC’s “Today” show cost the pageant a $5 million fee from a potential 2013 sponsor.