His resignation was submitted by Sam Haskell, CEO of the Miss America Organization (MAO), the Miss America beauty pageant, following the leak of e-mails, which had derogatory comments about the contestants, according to the British network BBC.
The organization announced that it will immediately accept his resignation. President Lynn Weidner and two other high-ranking officials are also leaving the organization. According to the BBC, the emails allegedly contained vulgar references to older contestants and comments about their sex lives.
According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, the resignations were triggered by an article in the Huffington Post on Thursday, which revealed almost three years of internal emails to the MAO, with very offensive comments about the weight or personal life of former crowned.