Major Resignations at Miss America After Scandal

The ugly scandal rocking one of the world’s most famous beauty pageant organizations continues to get uglier. Two days after a HuffPost expose unearthed misogynistic emails to and from CEO Sam Haskell, the executive most responsible for the pageant’s resurgence in recent years resigned. Also tendering their resignations Saturday were Josh Randle, president and COO of the organization, and board chair Lynn Weidner, who sent emails that were the source of controversy. The latter will stay on for up to ninety days to “facilitate a smooth transition to a new leadership.” Haskell, according to internal emails obtained by the online news outlet, “had regularly maligned, fat-shamed and slut-shamed the former Miss Americas, calling them shocking names and in one case laughing at the suggestion that one of the women should die.”