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   MIAMI –  Claiming a need to restore her tarnished reputation,   
   Genesis Davila is suing the organizers of the Miss Florida USA   
   pageant after she was stripped of her crown due to allegations   
   that she broke the beauty contest's rules.   
      
   Flanked by her attorneys and her life coach at press conference   
   in Miami on Monday, Davila said the accusations took her by   
   surprise. "The way I found was through social media," said the   
   beauty queen, who is demanding $15 million.   
      
   "Of course, I was devastated,” she said. “I have faced many   
   challenges in my life, but nothing like this."   
      
   Davila, a Puerto Rican, represented Miami Beach during the June   
   28 to July 2 pageant.   
      
   Her reign was short-lived. Pageant officials took away her 2017   
   crown three weeks following her coronation, after Miss Florida   
   executive producer Grant Gravitt Jr. claimed eye-witness   
   accounts and other evidence shows she violated rules by having   
   professional stylists not affiliated with the pageant fix her   
   hair and makeup before the show.   
      
   “We have a zero-tolerance policy on rules,” Gravitt said at the   
   time.   
      
   Richard Wolfe, Davila's attorney, said she is personally suing   
   Gravitt because of untruthful statements he allegedly made about   
   his client. "He acted maliciously to defame my client," Wolfe   
   said. "She was unjustly stripped of her crown and it is our job   
   to get it back to her."   
      
   Wolfe initially accused Gravitt of falsely claiming that Davila   
   was not a U.S. citizen, which would have barred her from   
   participating in the pageant. Gravitt then allegedly   
   manufactured the allegations that Davila used a professional   
   stylist for the show.   
      
   Davila's lawyer claimed Gravitt shared on his social media   
   accounts a screen shot of a photo his client posted on her   
   Instagram account of a professional stylist applying makeup to   
   her face as proof she cheated.   
      
   "She had it done nine days earlier for a shoot on something   
   completely unrelated," Wolfe said. "Mr. Gravitt intentionally   
   cropped this [photo] to strip her of her crown. He made up false   
   evidence."   
      
   Wolfe claimed Davila is a victim of an unfair judging system in   
   which a group of "insider" contestants are given preference.   
      
   Davila's $15 million lawsuit was filed in Miami-Dade Circuit   
   Court and names Gravitt Jr., his company Tel-Air Interests, and   
   IMG Universe, the company that owns the Miss USA, Miss Teen USA   
   and the Miss Universe pageants.   
      
   A spokesman for Tel-Air said Gravitt and the company cannot   
   comment on pending litigation.   
      
   http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/08/02/dethroned-miss-   
   florida-usa-denies-broke-pageant-rules-files-15-million-lawsuit/   
       
      
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