Miss Universe dethroned amid pregnancy rumour

MISS UNIVERSE, Oxana Fedorova, has been sacked after less than four months amid rumours that she is pregnant.

The former Miss Russia (24) also refused to fulfil the obligations of the title, according to pageant organisers.

Property tycoon Donald Trump, who owns the pageant said: “It’s too bad it didn’t work out better with Oxana, but our new Miss Universe is equally beautiful and she is a tremendous crowd-pleaser.”

Ms Federova is kept in the lap of luxury in Russia by a well-connected boyfriend who showers her with gifts.

Pageant officials were said to have been concerned that Federova might be secretly married to her boyfriend, which would be a violation of the Miss Universe rules.

“He’s taken care of her since she was 16. She’s an unbelievable beauty, and an unbelievably spoiled bitch. She doesn’t want to do anything.

"She’s gained about 15lbs and we think she might be pregnant,” said one insider.

As Miss Universe, Ms Federova was expected to travel extensively making personal appearances. But she allegedly refused a number of assignments, including the live, two-hour prime-time broadcast of the 2002 Miss Teen USA Competition on CBS.

A letter sent last week informed Ms Federova she’d been canned. It read, in part: “Your continuing refusal to perform your duties as a Miss Universe titleholder has, and will, cost the Miss Universe Organisation hundreds of thousands of dollars while gravely affecting our reputation.”

The newly promoted Miss Universe, Justine Pasek of Panama, was the first-runner-up on May 29 in Puerto Rico when Federova was crowned.

She vowed to do all so could to promote the pageant. “I will work to make this transition as easy as possible,” she said.