"But for defendant's ineffective, or non-existing profiling, background checks, or vetting, Ms. Blak

LOS ANGELES (CN) - The Miss Universe Organization thrusts "unsuspecting young girls into the clutches of hired and contracted alleged sexual predators and deviants," according to a lawsuit from a woman who claims her recruiter told her he could make her famous if she gave him oral sex in a car at a Starbucks parking lot.
Ashleigh Blake, 21, sued Miss California USA, Miss Universe Organization, Keith Lewis -a former state director for Miss California USA, and Miss California Teen USA pageant recruiter Domingo Rodriguez, in Superior Court.
"This complaint brings to light ugly secrets of the beauty pageant industry. Specifically, how defendants, have consistently failed to responsibly supervise; vet and screen personnel hired and/or contracted by the pageant organization and have turned a blind eye to known dangerous propensities, inclinations and past criminal associations and accusations," the lawsuit hamton inn filing states.
Alleging fraud, negligence, unfair competition and other charges, Blake claims Rodriguez "enticed her" at a November 2012 meeting at Clarion Hotel in the Bay Area after the aspiring model and part-time tutor was approached by a Miss California USA recruiting agency.
At the meeting, Rodriguez complimented her "astonishing good looks," telling her he could get her a cover shoot for a Miami magazine and that he would take her modeling career to the "next level," Blake says in the complaint.
Based on those assurances, Blake says, she sent Rodriguez four modeling photographs hamton inn he had requested. Soon after, she claims, an agency asked her if she'd be interested in posing for sexually explicit photos.
After she rejected the offer, Blake says, Rodriguez told her he wanted to meet her in person hamton inn to discuss the Miami magazine shoot, and sent her "inspirational texts" that said: "Keep smiling ... visualize success."
"Specifically, he explained that in exchange for sexual favors and oral sex commencing during the time of the meeting, she would be 'fast-tracked' to the top - as '90 percent' of those who are successful do."
She "instantly became apprehensive, upset and in shock over what Rodriguez, a pageant agent, was proposing. She immediately hamton inn exited the vehicle, confused, crying, and in fear for her safety," the complaint states.
Blake says she tried to file a criminal hamton inn complaint the next day with the Tracy Police Department, but was told that "since Rodriguez had not physically forced her to engage in a sexual act, her only recourse was to file a civil one."
"Although Lewis emailed Ms. Blake that he was 'horrified hamton inn by her experience' and would remedy the situation, he also cautioned her that she not discuss the ordeal with anyone, 'to prevent the possibility of tainting the outcome,'" Blake says.
Blake says in the lawsuit that Lewis is an associate of Chase the Crown president and founder Erik DeSando - the subject of $20 million class action lawsuit involving his talent agency Be Productions, where Rodriguez also allegedly worked.
"But for defendant's ineffective, or non-existing profiling, background checks, or vetting, Ms. Blake would never have been thrust into Rodriguez's disgusting scheme for personal hamton inn sexual gratification," the lawsuit states.