Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The beauty queen from Cranberry also posts a new video explaining some of her actions—including why she called the Miss Universe organization “trashy.”
Sheena Monnin, the ex-Miss Pennsylvania USA from Cranberry, is continuing to fight back against the $5 million lawsuit Donald Trump filed against her last year after she claimed the Miss USA pageant was rigged. This time, she’s saying the arbitration judgment made against her in December has yet to be confirmed. “There was an arbitration judgment decision made on December 10th, 2012. The judgment was sent to the Southern District Court of New York to be affirmed,” she said in a statement to Patch. “The Miss Universe Organization (MUO) announced they had ‘won’ a $5 million judgment against me on December 18th. It is apparent that the MUO knew that the arbitration judgment had NOT been confirmed when they released the news to the public.” …
Thursday, January 3, 2013
The beauty queen from Cranberry creates a support page on Facebook as she prepares to appeal the $5 million judgment against her.
Ex-Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin is asking for the public’s help in battling a $5 million judgment made against her after she claimed the Miss USA competition was rigged. “This truth has cost me greatly,” she said in YouTube video released New Year’s Day. “I’m at a place where for me to continue to fight this injustice, I need your help. I am not financially able to continue to fight this on my own.” After reaching the maximum capacity 5,000 friends on her Facebook page, the beauty queen also has created the Sheena Monnin Support Page. As of Wednesday the site had close to 1,500 Facebook likes. A Cranberry resident, Monnin made national headlines in June after she resigned as Miss Pennsylvania USA just days after the televised Miss …
Friday, December 28, 2012
Former Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin says a clause in the Miss Universe contract could prove her claim the contest is rigged.
Despite a $5 million legal victory against her, it appears Sheena Monnin won’t let her war of words with media mogul Donald Trump go down without a fight. The Ex-Miss Pennsylvania USA from Cranberry once again took to her Facebook page to express her dissatisfaction with the Miss Universe organization—and this time she said a clause in the organization’s own contract gives credibility to her claim the contest was rigged. “Since I had no idea that an arbitration hearing had taken place until receiving notification of the judgment made against me, I would like to release an initial response,” she said on her Facebook page Thursday. Monnin resigned as Miss Pennsylvania in June, just days after the televised Miss USA 2012 pageant took place. …
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Kourtnie Regan lives in Seven Fields.
Seneca Valley High School has another teen queen. Kourtnie Regan, 17, was crowned Miss Butler County USA 2013 during the pageant held earlier this week at Kean Theatre in Richland Township. The Seven Fields resident also was named Miss Photogenic. The Miss Butler County USA pageant is an official preliminary to the Miss Pennsylvania USA Pageant, which leads to the national televised Miss USA pageant owned by the Miss Universe organization. As the Miss Butler County USA 2013 winner, Regan will receive automatic entry into the 2014 Miss Pennsylvania USA pageant. An honor student, the Seneca Valley junior also was named Teen Miss Butler County in 2009 and Young Miss Butler County in 2007. She works as a hostess at Aviva Brick Oven in …
Thursday, November 29, 2012
A senior at Seneca Valley High School, Hannah O’Donoghue will take part in this weekend's pageant.
As she competed in her very first beauty pageant last December, Hannah O’Donoghue could hardly believe it as her named was called out as winner of the Miss Butler County USA contest “It was awesome,” she said. “I cried.” The Cranberry teen now has a chance to bring home an even bigger title—Miss Pennsylvania USA. A senior at Seneca Valley High School, O’Donoghue, 18, will compete for the crown at the Miss Pennsylvania USA pageant this weekend at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon. As Miss Butler County USA 2012, O’Donoghue receives automatic entry into the Miss Pennsylvania USA pageant, where contestants range in age from 18 to 26. The winner of the contest moves on to the nationally televised Miss USA …
Monday, July 2, 2012
Julia Belechak will take over duties for Monnin, who resigned as Miss Pennsylvania USA amid scandal in June.
Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA will be pulling double duty for the rest of the year. Cranberry resident Julia Belechak will take over the appearance duties of Sheena Monnin, who resigned as Miss Pennsylvania in June. Monnin, also of Cranberry, made headlines last month when she accused the Miss USA pageant of being rigged. In statements on her Facebook page, Monnin said a fellow contestant in the competition saw a list of the top five women in the pageant before judging began on the show. The 27-year-old also called the organization fraudulent, lacking in morals and trashy. The move earned her the ire of outspoken mogul—and Miss Universe co-owner—Donald Trump, who publicly threatened to sue Monnin. The Miss Universe Organization—which runs the…
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Plus, the Miss USA organization is moving forward with legal action against the Cranberry resident.
In the week since she first earned the ire of Donald Trump by claiming the Miss USA competition is rigged, ex-Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin, of Cranberry, is continuing to grab headlines. Fox News reported Wednesday that a second Miss USA contestant has stepped forward to collaborate Monnin’s story that she heard Miss Florida, Karina Brez, reveal the list of finalists backstage before the pageant’s Top 15 were announced June 3. The contestant, who spoke to Fox on the condition of anonymity, said Brez appeared upset and flustered as she revealed the names. “I thought it might be because she didn’t make the top 15 cut, but at that point she was able to reveal to me at least four of the five names who went on to be the top girls,” the …
Friday, June 8, 2012
The 27-year-old beauty queen from Cranberry appeared on the "Today" show Friday morning.
Despite threats of a lawsuit from Miss Universe co-owner Donald Trump, former Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin said she wouldn’t back down from her claims that Sunday’s televised Miss USA was fixed. “I feel prepared to continue to pursue the truth,” the 27-year-old beauty queen said during an appearance Friday morning on NBC’s Today show. “I know what I heard and I know what I in turn witnessed come true.” Monnin, of Cranberry, made headlines this week when she turned in her title and claimed, in two statements on her Facebook page, that a fellow contestant in Sunday’s competition saw a list of the top five women in the pageant before judging began on the show. She also called the organization fraudulent, lacking in morals and trashy. …
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Trump on Wednesday said he plans to file a lawsuit against Sheena Monnin, who resigned after she said a fellow contestant saw a list of the top five women before judging began Sunday.
Miss Universe Organization co-owner Donald Trump says he plans to file a lawsuit against former Miss Pennsylvania USA contestant Sheena Monnin after she accused the pageant of being fixed. “She said some really strong things,” Trump said during an appearance on NBC’s Today show Wednesday morning. “When she’s using the word ‘fraud,’ that’s pretty strong, so we’re going to be suing her on that basis.” Calling the pageant fraudulent, lacking in morals and even trashy, Monnin turned in her sash and crown Monday. “After 10 years of competing in a pageant system I once believed in, I now completely and irrevocably separate myself in every way and on every level from the Miss Universe Organization,” Monnin, of Cranberry, said in a statement on …
Art Wegweiser
4:56 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Bravo to Ms Monnin for fighting the mean and nasty slime sack Trump. more ›