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.

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

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 ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- More than 300 attendees came out to support 14 contestants who dazzled at the first-ever Miss Sri Lanka New York beauty pageant, held Friday night at The Vanderbilt at South ...

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 ...

A Sri Lankan contender for a US beauty pageant has been stripped of her local title after she claimed corruption had prevented her from winning the global event, organizers said Wednesday. Pushpika de ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Miss Sri Lanka New York has posted on social media to downplay rumors circulating about a fight that took place at the pageant’s after-party earlier this week. Angelia Gunasekara ...