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Donald Trump took a break from campaigning for Anna Wintour's ambassadorial appointment to collect $5 million in damages from Miss USA hopeful Sheena Monnin. (Recall that in June she accused the pageant of rigging the top five, then later backtracked, attributing her outrage to the allowance of transgendered contestants, but not before incurring the wrath of Trump's lawyer squad). The case's judge ruled that the former Miss PA's
"defamatory" statements "were false" and "showed a reckless disregard." Trump called the ordeal "an expensive lesson for her." [NYPost]