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On 20 December 2015 comedian Steve Harvey, acting as host of the Miss Universe pageant, accidentally crowned Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez as the new Miss Universe. Although the mistake was quickly remedied (Miss Philippines Pia Wurtzbach was given the crown in an particularly awkward moment of beauty pageantry), rumors immediately started circulating in the aftermath of the public gaffe. One rumor came from the web site Super 7 News, who reported that Miss Colombia committed suicide shortly after the Miss Universe crown was removed from her head: The web site Here It Before News also spread some misinformation about the beauty pageant contestant, reporting on 21 December 2015 that Miss Colombia had filed a $5 million lawsuit against Steve Harvey: Both Super7News and Here It Before News are fake news web sites that do not publish factual stories. Miss Colombia is still alive and has not announced (as of this writing) that she has filed a lawsuit against Harvey: A video posted to the Miss Universe Facebook page shortly after the pageant shows Miss Colombia saying that everything happens for a reason:
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