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Muslim Miss USA Arrested for DUI

Maureen O'Connor · 12/05/11 10:25AM

And now, the final piece of evidence that first Muslim Miss USA* Rima Fakih is as American as the rest of them: Last night, the former Miss Michigan was arrested for driving drunk in Detroit enclave Highland Park. Just a good old-fashioned drunk-driving stripper. [NYDN, image via Getty]

5-Year-Old Terrorized by Eyebrow Wax

Maureen O'Connor · 01/14/11 01:55PM

Child abuse infomercial Toddlers & Tiaras has outdone last week's episode—which featured a 2-year-old in a cone bra—by finding a pageant mom to force her screaming, begging, and crying 5-year-old to get her eyebrows waxed on television.

Choire · 12/06/07 05:20PM

Miss California USA, Raquel Beezley, left, receives her crown and her sash from reigning Miss California USA Meagan Tandy at a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007. Blaming an accounting mix-up, Miss California USA organizers have handed this year's title from Miss Los Angeles Christina Silva to Miss Barstow Raquel Beezley. Beezley was handed the crown Thursday in a Beverly Hills ceremony by last year's Miss California, Megean Tandy, after the pageant's state director, Keith Lewis, blamed the mistake on "human error." (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)