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Trump: Cranberry Beauty Queen is 'Looking For Another 15 Minutes of Fame'

Former Miss Pennsylvania USA was ordered again to pay $5 million to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is again speaking out against Former Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin, of Cranberry Township.

Executive VP and special counsel to Trump, Michael Cohen, stated to Us Magazine:

"Looking for an additional 15 minutes of fame, Miss Monnin continues to make statements that are inaccurate, have no relevance to the arbitration proceedings or any aspect of the 30-page decision which holds her liable for $5 million to Mr. Trump.

"One would think she would be very mindful of any future comments in light of this most recent decision.

"It's not only Mr. Trump and the organization that she is defaming, it is against every woman who has ever wanted to, who has ever competed in and who has ever won a state pageant hoping to become winner of Miss USA and/or Miss Universe.

"The fact that it's a large amount of money and she would be devastated to have to pay this, you would think she would humble herself, acknowledge that she is a sore loser, apologize to Mr. Trump and hope that he would forgive the judgment."

The statement comes after Monnin continued to stand by her assertion that the Miss USC competition is rigged on her Facebook page after she was again ordered to pay $5 million to Trump for defamation last week.

"I was hopeful for a different outcome, but I am pleased that the true nature of the Miss USA judging procedure has been exposed by the testimony of the Miss Universe Organization and Ernst & Young during the arbitration proceedings—testimony that reveals that the MUO does select the top 15 contestants irrespective of the preliminary judges’ scores," Monnin wrote. "This is not about me being a ‘sore loser’ or wanting my ’15 minutes of fame’. This is about the MUO’s admission under oath that they manipulate the judges’ results to suit their own ends."

She included a link to her defense fund.


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