Things got ugly after New York City’s first-ever Miss Sri Lanka beauty pageant — when a caught-on-video brawl erupted between well-heeled revelers at the post-party with contestants on Staten Island.

Mrs. Sri Lanka World winner, Pushpika De Silva, claims she was injured while having the crown "snatched" from her head at the pageant in Colombo on April 4. According to footage of the broadcast ...

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The first-ever Miss Sri Lanka New York beauty pageant held in Staten Island ended in a brawl. The beauty pageant was marred by a physical fight involving several attendees at the pageant’s after-party ...

The incident was captured on a televised broadcast of the ceremony, which showed reigning Mrs. World Caroline Jurie removing Pushpika De Silva's crown from her head Pushpika De Silva, a pageant queen ...

The newly crowned Miss Sri Lanka New York lashed out at the rumors circulating about the chaotic brawl at the pageant’s after-party on Staten Island. Angelia Gunasekara aimed to quell the apparent ...

Controversy erupted at the Mrs. Sri Lanka beauty pageant on Sunday, when a former title holder took the crown off the winner’s head and falsely claimed she was a divorcee and therefore ineligible to ...

Mrs. Sri Lanka World winner, Pushpika De Silva, claims she was injured while having the crown "snatched" from her head at the pageant in Colombo on April 4. According to footage of the broadcast ...