Sheena Monnin PHOTOS: Miss USA, Pennsylvania Owes Donald Trump $5 Million for Defamation, Falsely Claims Beauty Pageant is 'Trashy, Rigged'

Reports confirm that the infamous business mogul Donald Trump has won a $5 million defamation settlement against former Miss U.S.A. 2012 contestant from Pennsylvania, Sheena Monnin. Back in June, the brunette bombshell publicly resigned from the annual beauty pageant insisting that the entire competition was rigged. Monnin went on a social media rant days following the event, insisting that the Miss Universe Organization was "fraudulent, lacking in morals, inconsistent, and in many ways trashy." Monnin went so far as to allege that a fellow Miss USA contestant had actually seen a list containing the top 5 contestants before they were officially announced at the 2012 event. Trump (the owner of the pageant) heatedly denied such claims, and the Miss Universe Organization promptly filed an arbitration action for defamation which sought "significant damages" from Monnin for her shady remarks. Earlier this week a New York district court judge sided with Trump, ruling that "the method in which the Miss USA Pageant is judged... precludes any reasonable possibility that the judging was rigged." Monnin must now pay up $5 million to the "Apprentice" star.

The lawsuit filed by Trump claims that Monnin not only defamed the entire Miss Universe Organization, but more specifically she slandered Miss Oregon, Alaina Bergsma. Following the $5 million settlement (which the New York Post reported about on Tuesday, Dec. 18), Trump released a statement which reads:

"We cannot allow a disgruntled contestant to make false and reckless statements which are damaging to the many people who have devoted their hearts and souls to the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageant systems. While I feel very badly for Sheena, she did the wrong thing. She was really nasty, and we had no choice. It is an expensive lesson for her."

Apparently following her resignation over the summer, Monnin went to a bunch of media/news outlets to bash the Miss USA Pageant as fake and rigged. She posted in a rather heated Facebook message:

"I witnessed another contestant who said she saw the list of the Top 5 BEFORE THE SHOW EVER STARTED proceed to call out in order who the Top 5 were before they were announced on stage. Apparently the morning of June 3rd she saw a folder lying open to a page that said 'FINAL SHOW Telecast, June 3, 2012' and she saw the places for Top 5 already filled in.

Thinking she was just seeing a rehearsal fake top 5 from a previous day she walked away, then realized that it had without a doubt been labeled as the Final Show Telecast, June 3rd. After the Top 16 were called and we were standing backstage she hesitantly said to me and another contestant that she knew who the Top 5 were. I said 'who do you think they will be?' She said that she didn't 'think' she 'knew' because she saw the list that morning. She relayed whose names were on the list. Then we agreed to wait and see if that was indeed the Top 5 called that night.

After it was indeed the Top 5 I knew the show must be rigged; I decided at that moment to distance myself from an organization who did not allow fair play and whose morals did not match my own."

Following Monnin's seedy claims, Trump announced on "Good Morning America" - "We're going to be suing her now because she made a charge and she said that it's fixed, and now it turns out that it wasn't fixed [...] she suffers from a thing called loser's remorse."

Before badmouthing Trump's organization, Monnin insisted that she actually resigned from her post as Miss Pennsylvania due to the pageant's take on gender:

"In an email to state pageant organizers, she cited the Miss Universe Organization's policy regarding transgendered contestants, implemented two months ago, as the reason for her resignation," a rep for Miss Universe told E! News at the time.

But Trump wasn't having it, and he went along with the defamation lawsuit. And won (adding $5 million to his already hefty income). Miss Rhode Island, Olivia Culpo, ultimately won the 2012 Miss USA Pageant.