Miss USA 2010, Rima Fakih, Arrested On Drunk Driving Charges

From the moment she received her Miss USA crown, Rima Fakih has been embroiled in controversies.

She initially grabbed headlines in 2010 when she became one of the only, if not the first, Arab American and Muslim to win the Miss USA crown. Hailing from Michigan since 2003, Fakih is a Lebanese immigrant who moved here when she was a baby and celebrates both Muslim and Christian faiths.

But despite the feel-good nature of her 2010 win, Fakih got caught up in scandal after scandal -- including a new one just last night.

TMZ reports that the beauty queen was arrested in Highland Park, Michigan on Saturday for suspicion of drunk driving. Fakih tried to deny the incident initially, tweeting on Saturday, "Let's clear things up now.... I'm NOT in Michigan and I'm NOT in jail! Wrong Fakih."

But Doraid Elder, her attorney, told the Detroit Free Press, "Unfortunately she was." The tweet has since disappeared and Elder commented that Fakih is "very saddened and very apologetic for the situation that she is in right now."

We should say so, given the trouble she's gotten in before. Just the day after winning the Miss USA title, Rima was exposed as a former pole dancer by radio show MojoInTheMorning.com, which posted photos of the pageant winner participating in the "Stripper 101" contest at a Detroit gentlemen's club three years earlier. She later came under fire for some late-night partying, which doesn't seem like a big deal to us but had some critics wagging their fingers.

Now she's actually gotten into trouble with the law. But her lawyer tells the Detroit Free Press that the arrest was based merely on "allegations." Further investigation by the Highland Park police will happen tomorrow.

In the meantime, take a look at the pure, unblemished moment in time when Rima Fakih won her Miss USA crown.

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Comments

[jonathanzimmel]

12:20 AM on 12/08/2011

guess michigan is different than NY if she wound up in jail, in NY women half as attractive as her wink and smirk and flirt and get away with anything with our cops.....go michigan police! even miss usa pays the price

[Sistagirl Young]

09:41 AM on 12/07/2011

Wow. "...I'm NOT in Michigan and I'm NOT in jail!" Po' chil'. I guess the next thing she'll tell us is "I'm NOT Rima Fakih." Life.

[buzzzlove]

06:52 AM on 12/07/2011

oops she screwed up there! Thats the way it is if you step in to the public light it will defiantly shine on you.
I guess look at it from the view of a parent is it ok for your daughter to look up to a stripping drunk driving liar? Miss USA is not Paris Hilton who is just a rich kid who party's to hard I never understood why because she was born with money why it makes her a role model.
The title dose actually stand for something set aside the shallowness of any beauty contest there are responsibilities like most things in life.
She didn't live up to those expectations so she should lose her job. Shes the same as any of us she made some wrong choices so she has to deal with it.

[aralpharetta]

06:31 AM on 12/07/2011

Liars, theives, drunks,,,,,,,ever clear deceptively ( thanks 4 watching )

[V-Bottom]

02:23 PM on 12/06/2011

she can dance on my pole....yummy....

[amyh1991]

01:53 PM on 12/06/2011

Why is everyone always out to get the famous person. Before she was crowned no-one knew of her past. After she was crowned, everything and anything that could possibly cause someone to look down on her is brought up. And how can you be arrested on "suspicion" of driving drunk. It's kind of a "you are or you aren't" kind of deal....

[gmaj56]

04:01 PM on 12/06/2011

I don't think everyone is always out to get the famous person, but she is representing
America, and her actions reflect on all of America to some degree.

[amyh1991]

11:26 PM on 12/06/2011

ah, you have a point. But it does seem that people always try to dig up the dirty laundry when someone is "put out there".

[jaymac824]

12:36 PM on 12/06/2011

I live in the suburbs of Detroit, for those who don't know the area Highland Park is the ghetto! Wtf was she doing in that area?

[jaymac824]

12:25 PM on 12/06/2011

Rima will you marry me? :)

[Puttza Puttza]

11:36 AM on 12/06/2011

I love how she says "Wrong Fakih." Ha.. like its a name Ann or Jane.

[dlpfrench]

11:22 AM on 12/06/2011

Imagine if she was drunk and pole dancing....if she fell off the pole she could have broken her neck....don't worry after this latest one the sex tape cannot be far behind in her repetoire

[adamben]

11:22 AM on 12/06/2011

where's the mug shot?

[princep]

10:20 AM on 12/06/2011

Drunk? Muslim? Shame on her. That's supposed to be a No No.

[Michaelj Sullivan]

10:10 AM on 12/06/2011

We've all done stupid things. The good news is no one got hurt. Wishing her well.

[Datadog314]

09:58 AM on 12/06/2011

She's a kid, she messed up.............I've driven drunk before (ALOT of us have).

[MsMoonpieJD]

09:09 AM on 12/06/2011

So now our Miss America is a drunken Muslim pole dancer. Geez Louise.