Four new queens who stood out among more than 100 contestants will represent Tennessee and Georgia in the Miss USA and Miss ...

Isaac Brekken/Getty Images Miss Rhode Island USA Olivia Culpo waves to the crowd after winning the 2012 Miss USA pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on June 3, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Miss USA 2012 By . Post Staff Report. Published May 31, 2012, 4:01 p.m. ET. 1 of 42. The Miss USA 2012 Contestants pose for pictures at the Trump Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The world has welcomed the new Miss USA 2012 Olivia Culpo with open arms, praising her for her style, grace and poise. Miss USA, an annual pageant sponsored by Donald Trump, is the precursor to ...

Olivia Culpo won the Miss USA pageant in 2012, but Sheena Monnin, who competed as Miss Pennsylvania that year, alleged that the pageant was rigged and the top five contestants were selected before ...

Miss USA R'Bonney Gabriel won the Miss Universe competition on Saturday. She is the first Miss USA to win the competition since Olivia Culpo in 2012. Miss Venezuela Amanda Dudamel was second ...

For example, at the Miss USA pageant in June 2012, Culpo said she welcomed the participation of transgender women in the competition – a comment that Trump supported.

In 2012, the Miss USA pageant changed its rules to be more inclusive of transgender women, as previously reported by NPR. As the official pageant website states, ...

After becoming Miss Rhode Island in her first-ever pageant, Olivia Culpo won the Miss USA pageant in 2012 before securing the title of Miss Universe that same year.

Miss USA 2024 will be the first contest under a new set of rules aimed at modernizing the pageant. ... She was the first American woman to hold the title since 2012. ...

Culpo, from Rhode Island, was trying to end a long losing spell for the U.S. in the competition. An American had not won the right to be called Miss Universe since Brook Lee won the title in 1997.

Bailey Anne Kennedy, a Cambodian American immigrant, military wife, and transgender woman over 30, is shattering the Miss USA pageant's traditional mold and inspiring a new generation of beauty ...