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Wednesday, 3 August 2016

Miss Florida lost her crown; now she wants $15M

                              

A beauty queen who had her scarf and crown stripped from her last month is looking for $15 million in harms, People reports.

Beginning Davila was named Miss Florida USA 2017 on July 16. Her rule endured all of six days.


Event official chief Grant Gravitt tells the Miami Herald he stripped Davila of her title in the wake of getting "30 to 40 grumblings" from different challengers.

At issue is Davila conceivably utilizing her own proficient hair and cosmetics group rather than the one gave by the event. Gravitt cases to have photographic verification of Davila breaking the standards.

By losing her crown, Davila additionally loses the opportunity to contend in the Miss USA 2017 event and in any event $100,000 in "supports and appearances." Now she's suing Gravitt and alternate coordinators of Miss Florida 2017 for maligning, looking for harms of $15 million.

Her legal counselor says Gravitt's photographic proof originates from a week prior to the show and that he "acted vindictively and deliberately to slander and hurt my customer."

Davila, who is from Puerto Rico, additionally asserts Gravitt blamed her for not being a U.S. national, the Sun-Sentinel reports. "I am honest," People cites Davila as saying. "I have confronted numerous difficulties throughout my life, yet in no way like this."

(Six runners-up sued a stunner exhibition in Texas over the champ.)

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