Sued by Ousted Teen Beauty Queen, Pageant Fires Back with Diminution-of-Value Claim
Did Domonique Ramirez really get too fat and attend only lackadaisically and insubordinately to her duties as Miss San Antonio? Or, as the 17-year-old beauty queen claims, did organizers of the pageant apply too strict a standard in claiming that she and her mother failed to meet their contractual obligations?
A Texas court has been asked to decide these and other critical questions raised in a lawsuit and counterclaims between the parties, according to the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express.
In the latest litigation salvo, Miss Bexar County Organization Inc. contends in counterclaims that Ramirez and her mother damaged the group’s reputation, diminished its value and cost it revenue by their breaches of duty, the San Antonio newspaper reports.
Earlier this month, Ramirez sued in an effort to keep her crown and won a temporary restraining order precluding the group’s board from promoting the runner-up, the Chronicle explains.
Also at issue, as other news reports detail, is whether the 5-foot-8-inch Ramirez—who says she is the same weight, 129 pounds, as when she won the pageant—needs to “get off the tacos” and lose 13 pounds in order to compete effectively for the Miss Texas crown this summer.
She is has been late to events or attended them “with her boyfriend holding her hand, which is a complete violation,” Miss San Antonio board president Linda Woods told the Chronicle.
Additional coverage:
KIAH-TV: “Beauty Queen Stripped of Crown for ‘Eating One Too Many Tacos’ “
New York Daily News: “Miss San Antonio Domonique Rogers competing in court to retain crown over ‘insubordination,’ weight”
Today: “Beauty queen in ‘tacos’ suit: ‘I’m still the same weight’ “
Updated at 6:08 p.m. to correct a typographical error in the headline.
