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Beauty Pageant

An Illinois state’s attorney claims the promoter of a state beauty pageant add-on called Miss Photogenic told contestants that money from the competition would be donated to a children’s hospital, but he kept it for his own benefit.

CHICAGO – An Illinois state’s attorney claims the promoter of a state beauty pageant add-on called Miss Photogenic told contestants that money from the competition would be donated to a children’s hospital, but he kept it for his own benefit.

The plaintiff is the People of the State of Illinois through Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx. The defendants are Derrick Lee individually and dba Team DQ and Pageant Prep & Image Consulting dba Miss Illinois United States Organization.

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