Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was announced on Instagram that former Miss Universe winner Ieda Maria Vargas passed away on Monday, days before her birthday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the “final rounds” of the state-level pageant, she recalled being “pulled aside and they were like, ‘Look, you have the ...

Vargas was crowned on the international stage in 1963, when she became the first Miss Universe titleholder from Brazil Zoey Lyttle is a Writer-Reporter on the Society & Culture team at PEOPLE. She ...

Jesinta Franklin at Miss Australia 2010. Jesinta Franklin is looking back on the lengths she went to become a top contender on the world's most prestigious pageant stage. The former titleholder, 34, ...

A Thai court has sentenced former Miss Universe pageant co-owner Jakkaphong “Anne” Jakrajutatip to two years in prison for financial fraud stemming from a sketchy corporate bond investment scheme, ...