“Who do you complain to? He owns the pageant. The pageant celebrates the whole woman, and its spirit is.
“I’m telling you Donald Trump owned the pageant for the reason to utilize his power to get around beautiful women,” Dixon said. It is the first time in the pageants 63-year history that a Miss America winner has been asked to yield her crown, Mr.
“If that was something he did, then everybody would have noticed.”įormer Miss Massachusetts Teen USA Jessica Granata said it seemed unlikely because “there were so many chaperones.”īut Dixon said she thinks it was possible because everyone else reported to Trump. “There was way too much security,” said Crystal Hughes, former Miss Maine Teen USA. “I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’” said Mariah Billado, former Miss Vermont Teen USA, according to BuzzFeed.īut other contestants from the 1997 pageant told BuzzFeed they never saw Trump and raised doubts that he could have been there. Some women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, which Trump also owned, shared similar stories with BuzzFeed News. Trump came under fire this week after a leaked recording of a 2005 conversation featured him boasting about being able to “do anything” to women because of his fame.
