She had claimed to be 21 when she was really 18, and she was also married and a mother of two children.Ħ. Almost immediately after her crowning, judges discovered that Leona had lied about various details of her background, including her age. This scandal dates all the way back to 1957, when Leona Gage of Maryland was named Miss USA - and then dethroned in less than a day.
There was Leona Gage, who lost her Miss USA crown after only 24 hours. The rumors only got worse when sources told news outlets that Nia actually never moved to Nevada, but only set up the “minimum paper trail” to allow her to compete.ĥ. She appeared on a morning radio program called The Todd Show and was asked to name the capital of Nevada.aaaaand she couldn’t do it. In 2014, Nia Sanchez was fighting rumors that she wasn’t actually from Nevada, the state for which she was competing in the Miss USA pageant (which she won, BTW). When Nia Sanchez forgot the capital to her home state. She was eventually released after a judge found no evidence to prove that she was involved in criminal activity, but her crown was taken away all the same.Ĥ. At the time of her arrest, she was held with her boyfriend and six other people when the police found 9 mm pistols, semiautomatic rifles, and $53,000 in cash in their car. The dancers are businesswomen, said Rivers.Laura Zuniga was arrested in 2008 with charges of racketeering, drug trafficking, guns and money laundering. Rio Rivers of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who owns the pageant, and Kent, the Lumber Yard manager, disagreed. "The fundamental issue is: It degrades women it treats them like things rather than people," he said. But he said many will travel from other states, which will provide an economic shot in the arm for Des Moines hotels and restaurants.Ĭhuck Hurley, president of the Iowa Family Policy Center, based in Des Moines, said nude entertainment is bad for the area. Most of the estimated 10,000 customers who are expected for the pageant will come from Iowa, Kent said. "In our industry, this is the biggest event in the world," said Mike Kent, the Lumber Yard's manager. 20-25 at the Lumber Yard, a strip club just north of the Des Moines city limits, is expected to draw up to 75 professional exotic dancers from around the United States and several foreign countries, the organizer said. "I guess anything that has a potential to bring outside visitors to town is somewhat positive," said Greg Edwards, president of the convention bureau.
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