Before the two beauty queens hung up their sashes this week, the Miss USA organization was in turmoil and Miss Teen USA Umasofia Srivastava’s crown had been broken for months.
CEO Leila Rose Roisley didn’t have the money to fix it, the people said.
“she [Rose] Uma’s crown has been broken since October. Leila did not honor the end of his contract,” former social media manager Claudia Michel, who resigned on May 3, told the Post.
According to people involved, Loisley was facing a financial crisis after losing her sponsorship contract with Fred Mouawad, who had been producing the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA crowns for many years. Fred Mouawad, who has been producing the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA crowns for many years, lost his sponsorship contract after he allegedly forced one of the staff members to sit down at a pageant event, giving her a nosebleed. .
The organization announced that Miss USA Noelia Vogt resigned, accusing her of “bullying and harassment” in a bombshell resignation letter obtained by the newspaper, two days after Miss Teen USA Umasofia Srivastava resigned. As a result, the organization suffered a blow.
Last year, Roysley bought the struggling Miss USA franchise from the Miss Universe organization and became its chairman and CEO, calling it a way to improve the status of women.
But critics told the Post that she is a “narcissist” and a “pageant mom” who was allegedly kicked out of her job as a cheerleader coach at a Catholic school in 2019 because of her Playboy past. Ta.
Roysley and the Miss USA organization declined to respond to multiple requests for comment for this article.
The paper has learned that she appeared on the cover of India’s Playboy franchise Royal in 2009, posing in skimpy clothing under the name Leila Figueroa. There is no indication from her cover that she posed nude for the magazine.
The previous year, she attended a Playboy golf tournament in San Diego, California, where Brody Jenner was also in attendance.
“She has a very sordid past and obviously a path that she has tried to hide. When you try to hide things, they always come out,” a source close to the situation told the Post.
“She pretended to be Mother Teresa, but behind the scenes she was a Playboy girl, posing on the cover of India’s Playboy and running around half-naked on golf courses,” says the Catholic Church. She added that she is a devoted mother. school. “And no one knew about her past.”
A beauty pageant industry expert told the Post: Otherwise, just be who you are. ”
In fact, people familiar with the matter told The Post that when an employee flagged the cover two weeks ago, it was dismissed as photoshopped. This cover has been published online since his 2009.
“She screamed and said it wasn’t real, it was photoshopped. It couldn’t be her, she had kids and she’d never had breasts that small. ,” another source told the Post.
Miss Teen USA’s father then brought the matter to the Miss Universe organization’s vice president for international relations, Mario Bucaro Flores, who dismissed it as “AI and photo manipulation,” a former staffer said. he told the Post.
Loisley is also accused of not paying her staff and using Miss USA to promote herself.
When Miss USA was scheduled to appear in Charlotte, North Carolina, it was Rossisley’s face featured on local billboards.
Two former assistant national directors were paid $1,000 a month with no benefits and their checks were delayed, people told The Post.
“They both resigned and Leila sent a farewell note on April 29,” Michelle told the Post. Michelle said he worked for her for four months starting in January, but she was paid only $2,000.
Loisley, 45, is a thrice-married pageant mom with an impressive resume from a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio.
When she married Peter Figueroa in 2008, she declined to comment for the Post. I was the manager of Slender You Body Shaping Spa. She lives in Chardon, Ohio and is also a Playboy golf girl.
A year later, under her married name, Figueroa, she appeared on the cover of Royal magazine wearing a sheer bra top with the headline: “The fascinating Leila Figueroa talks about life and sex” worked as a ring girl At a boxing match at the Chevrolet Center in Youngstown, Ohio.
In 2011 she I worked on a little-known sports program. “Cavaliers Gab” as a reporter for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
She is currently married to her third husband, Tom Roisley, and they have a total of six children.
In 2018 she I was a cheerleader coach. to the Geauga Lions, a girls team from a Catholic school in Chardon, Ohio.
However, an independent contractor who has worked with Miss USA for 20 years told the Post, “Even though she was a cheerleading coach and was hired and paid, her parents came to a closed board meeting and told her I asked for his dismissal.”
The following year she Launched fashion line Laylah Rose She also performed at a catwalk event at New York Fashion Week “to promote beautiful and flattering designs for women of all shapes and sizes.”
In the same year, her second daughter, Voila, was born. Selected as 2019 Ohio Junior PrincessBut in 2020, the family moved to a $2.5 million home in Sarasota, Florida, and eldest daughter Mariya Lorenzo I started competing in contests in that state.
She has since won the title Including Teen Universe Ohio 2020Miss Florida Earth USA Teen and Top Model of the World 2021.
Loiczly seems to have entered the pageant business in 2021. Name yourself as executive producer Member of her company VIP Pageantry.
That fall, Loisley approached pageant industry consultant Tom Brodeur for help writing a proposal to buy the Miss USA franchise after her husband’s family sold their aerospace manufacturing company to a major competitor in 2022. discussed.
Brodeur said he had been promised a role as president of Miss USA, but instead she ghosted him and flew to Thailand to meet with trans-Thai business tycoon Anne. . JKN Global Group of Jacaphone, which owns Miss Universe. There, Roysley secured the Miss USA franchise.
In August 2023, Loizley officially took over the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA licenses, taking the name Layla Rose.
Sources say she is now pushing the contest hard.
“She bought a house but couldn’t put furniture in it,” Brodeur said.
A person familiar with the situation told the Post: “She’s the epitome of a narcissist. It’s not about the girls. It’s not about the contest and what it means, it’s about what she can get out of it.
“With all this history of who she is, how can Miss Universe continue to let her run this organization?”
