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Also see: Aras Agalarov; Emin Agalarov; Phil Ruffin;
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Undated: In January 2013, [Aras] Agalarov and his son visited Las Vegas, Nevada, after Donald Trump, the beauty pageant's owner, announced at Miss Universe 2012 that the next competition would be hosted by Agalarov in Moscow.[3] He paid Trump $20 million to host the pageant.[2] In November 2013, President Vladimir Putin awarded Agalarov the Russian Order of Honor.[3] That month, Agalarov hosted Miss Universe 2013 at his Crocus City Hall.[3][4] Moreover, Agalarov's wife acted as a judge on the panel while his son was one of the performers.[5]
Herman Gref, who runs Sberbank of Russia, Agalarov and his son hosted a dinner for Trump on the night of the pageant.[3] While in Moscow, Phil Ruffin, who is a partner in Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, and Trump met with Agalarov and his son at the Ritz-Carlton.[3] Trump then appeared in a music video with Agalarov's son alongside many of the contestants.[3] Trump and Agalarov planned on a $3 billion project, with state-owned Sberbank agreeing to provide 70% of the financing.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aras_Agalarov
-- 2016 --
May 15: When Donald Trump brought Miss Universe to Moscow
How a 2013 beauty pageant explains Trump's love for Russia and obsession with Vladimir Putin.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-russia-moscow-miss-universe-223173
September 27: Alicia Machado, Miss Universe weight-shamed by Trump, speaks out for Clinton
Clinton made the former Miss Universe turned actor and activist a talking point of the first debate, criticizing Trump’s public comments about her weight
Alicia Machado became an American citizen just in time to vote against Donald Trump. It’s a vote that has been a long time coming.
In May 1996, the Venezuelan beauty queen was just 19 years old when she was crowned the winner of the Miss Universe pageant, which had recently been bought by the Manhattan business mogul. That year should have been one of sheer happiness and possibility for Machado, and for a moment it was. “I remember I hug my mom and I tell her, now our lives is going to be changed forever,” she told the Guardian in an interview in her adopted hometown of Los Angeles.
But when she put on weight soon after winning, Trump turned what should have been a golden year into the most traumatizing one of her life. It wasn’t just that Trump shamed her about about gaining weight, calling her things like “Miss Piggy” and “an eating machine”. It wasn’t even that he did so publicly. It was that he did it with the biggest audience he could find, in an attempt to sear her weight fluctuation into the public consciousness, forever changing how she would be remembered.
Then on Monday night, in a twist of cosmic justice, Trump – now the Republican nominee for president – was presented with a bigger audience for his comments about Machado’s weight than he ever could have imagined, or wanted.
In what has been billed as the most-watched debate in presidential history, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton made Trump’s remarks to Machado a centerpiece of their first televised clash, citing the name-calling – in particular, Trump calling her “Miss Housekeeping” in reference to her Latina origins – as a prime example of her opponent’s demeaning views about women.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/27/alicia-machado-miss-universe-weight-shame-trump-speaks-out-clinton
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September 18: Investigators are examining closely efforts apparently made by the Russian government to pass Trump’s team damaging information on Hillary Clinton, using Trump’s politically connected Miss Universe business partners as couriers.
They are also looking into the $20m fee that Trump collected for putting on the pageant from those same business partners – along with extraordinary allegations about Trump’s private conduct behind closed doors at the Ritz-Carlton hotel during his 2013 stay in Moscow.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013
-- 2018 --
March 8: Trump Eliminated Miss Universe Finalists Who Were ‘Too Ethnic’ or ‘Snubbed His Advances,’ Pageant Staff Claim
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-miss-universe-women-ethnic-837139
October 8: Everything You Need to Know About the Miss Universe Trump Tape
"Before a show, I'll go backstage and everyone's getting dressed."
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj4pbq/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-miss-universe-trump-tape
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