Rima Fakih has just one more week to go in her yearlong reign as Miss USA. A scrutiny-filled year after winning the title, Fakih is simply "proud to say that I am giving up my crown on June 19th and that I still have the crown."

Miss New York Davina Reeves boarded Miss USA Rima Fakih's float while wearing her crown and sash and remained on board the vessel until handlers convinced her to disembark from the float. Drop Dead Gorgeous is real.

• Miss USA Rima Fakih has decided to weigh in on the Ground Zero mosque controversy: "It shouldn't be so close to the World Trade Center," she said on Inside Edition. "We should be more concerned with the tragedy than religion."

Miss Universe contestants recently posed topless, covered in body paint. Naturally, some people are quite upset. But I happen to think this is a good thing.

Miss USA recently spent a week cataloging everything she ate for Grub Street. We thought it might be interesting to look at this — so what did the most beautiful girl in the nation consume?

• In a new interview Bret Michaels says when he suffered a brain hemorrhage in April he was watching TV and switching from "SportsCenter to Busty Cops 3... Maybe that's what did it!" Unfortunately, his health problems aren't over...

Amid the insanity surrounding new Miss USA Rima Fakih and the controversy over France's possible burka ban comes some sane context. Mostly from women who know what they're talking about.

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Hezbollah. Alexis de Tocqueville. Poledancing. What do they have in common? They have all been invoked to discuss Miss USA Rima Fakih. Donald Trump, you PR genius.

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• Jessica Simpson was linked to Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner after they spoke to each other at an Oscars party and were spotted entering the same hotel, but he reportedly told his real girlfriend that it's all a publicity stunt.

Hours into her Miss USA tenure, Rima Fakih has her first (low-grade) scandal: a "Stripper 101" crown in college. Meanwhile, creative right-wing haters are implying, in more ways than one, that she won because of a pro-Muslim, pro-immigrant conspiracy.

Rima Fakih, the first Arab-American Miss USA, won last night after saying birth control should be covered by insurance. Asked how she felt about winning, she said, "Ask me after I've had a pizza."