That is NOT an excellent search for the Miss Universe group!
Late final week, Vox obtained a leaked video of a board assembly from November 2023 through which the Miss Universe co-owner, Anne Jakapong Jakrajutatip, argued that variety was only for present! Ugh! Throughout the assembly, Anne mentioned it might be good to incorporate a variety of ladies in a possible Miss Universe actuality present — however she drew a tough line, noting, “They can’t win.” Particularly, she famous:
“The trans girls, the ladies with husbands, divorced girls … It is a communication technique, as a result of, you perceive … they’ll compete however they can’t win. We simply put the coverage on the market. Social inclusion, as folks would say.”
Jeez! That is particularly stunning contemplating Anne is a transgender girl and a mom, too!
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Later, one other board member urged:
“We will have a casting for fashions of all completely different colours, sizes, no matter. We’re additionally trying to commercialize that type of factor — an company. ‘Miss Universe Mannequin Company.’”
Anne agreed, including:
“We will have actual dimension magnificence, the contestant. Very huge dimension.”
However she additionally agreed with one other board member who mentioned “we’ll have to manage the viewers” so that they don’t “vote all for the large dimension.” Anne insisted they’d already “know who’s the winner” however would come with different physique varieties and ladies to make the viewers really feel included — all so they’d then go to the shops and purchase Miss Universe merchandise, she cheered:
“It’s all linked. For cash!”
Wow. So f**ked up — and this solely makes these rigging allegations extra plausible! See the stunning video HERE.
In case you don’t know, Anne acquired MUO in 2022 because the CEO of JKN International Group. However in 2023, JKN filed for chapter, and this January, she bought half her shares to Mexican businessman Raúl Rocha Cantú (who was within the video however didn’t say a lot). The recording was shared by former CEO of Miss Universe Mexico, Rodrigo Goytortua Ortega, who was current on the assembly. He determined to leak the video after Cantú allegedly didn’t pay him for his work. The clip first went viral in Asia and Latin America earlier this 12 months, inflicting Anne to launch a press release, saying on Fb in February:
“The malicious edited video was out of context and used to control different folks which led to the general public confusion, misunderstanding, misinterpretation and flawed conclusion. I hope the world wouldn’t go spherical by this nonsense cleaning soap opera alike. I nonetheless don’t comprehend why this man, who I used to be so good to him, want to jeopardize me and the group whereas we have been speaking about one of many new actuality present episodes not the pageantry itself. … I’m a trans girl and a mom myself who all my life struggle for the gender equality rights to be the place I’m.”
In mild of the resurfaced leak, the Miss Universe org launched a press release initially dated in February, claiming the leak was a part of a smear marketing campaign. They wrote:
“In mild of current misinformation and makes an attempt to smear the Miss Universe Group, we reaffirm our unwavering dedication to the core values we now have diligently defended through the years.”
The assertion continued:
“The Miss Universe Group has labored tirelessly to advertise inclusion, transparency, and integrity, and we is not going to be swayed by unfounded allegations. We have now been knowledgeable of malicious makes an attempt by sure people to tarnish the repute of our group by spreading false accusations.”
However are they actually false accusations? The board members very explicitly mentioned all this themselves on tape!!!
As Perezcious readers know, this disturbing look into the org comes after each Miss USA and Miss Teen USA resigned from their roles months early amid bullying and harassment allegations. Sadly, the women have been barred from sharing their tales attributable to strict NDAs, which former Miss USA Noelia Voigt slammed in a put up on Instagram a day after this aforementioned video was leaked. She shared:
“I’m constrained by a non-disclosure settlement (NDA) and want to emphatically assert that, following the unauthorized circulation of my resignation letter, [Miss USA President and CEO] Laylah Roses‘ assertions in her current assertion that contradict my expertise after three weeks of unanswered resignation notification are unequivocally inaccurate. I strongly encourage her to waive our NDA to allow me to talk.”
Within the “open letter,” Laylah mentioned partly:
“We’re very disenchanted to listen to the current false allegations made by people talking on behalf of our former titleholder. We can’t and won’t handle each falsehood, however I’ll handle just a few right here. The allegations of sexual harassment, poisonous atmosphere and bullying will not be true.”
However judging from this leaked assembly and what others have mentioned on behalf of Noelia and the previous Miss Teen USA, UmaSofia Srivastava, it looks as if there could also be some deeply disturbing issues behind the scenes… Ideas? Tell us (under).
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[Image via MEGA/WENN & Miss USA/YouTube & Noelia Voigt/UmaSofia Srivastava/Instagram]
