Miss Universe Organization ran the Miss USA competition until 2020, when The Miss Brand Corp., headed by Crystle Stewart, took over.
… I understand how isolating it is to win Miss USA,” Elle Smith, who was Miss USA last year, said in a TikTok video.
She argued that Gabriel was “the clear front-runner.”“She needed to perform at Miss USA and she did exactly that,” Smith added.
When I won Miss Texas USA, Miss USA and more recently, became President of the Miss USA Organization many women of color were inspired and filled with hope,” she said in her statement Friday.
“Because this is not the Miss USA organization that we all looked up to as little girls.