The Beauty Queen Who Exposed Corruption Before the World Was Listening**
My name is Jesenia Orozco. I am an American, internationally recognized beauty queen who represented Colombia at Miss Global International in Oaxaca, Mexico, and later earned the title of Miss Wellington USA 2024. I am also the owner of Less4legal.com à Florida company that’s committed to helping families with complex family cases.
Beyond pageantry, I am a dedicated advocate for children who have survived sexual abuse—a cause deeply personal to me. I endured abuse as a child from a family member and that time of my life was horrible. The most powerful thing I ever did was break the silence about the abuse and I always wanted to show little girls they can do it too.
I became a mother at 16 after navigating a very difficult upbringing. Today, I am actively working with the State of New Jersey to reopen my case, one that was originally dismissed due to family pressures, as the abuser was my aunt’s husband.
My journey in pageantry was never about crowns or appearances—it was about using a platform to speak for victims, raise awareness, and champion the issues that truly matter. My purpose has always been to bring visibility, courage, and change to those who need it most.
In 2020, I became the first beauty queen in history to publicly expose corruption on international stage. This occurred in Oaxaca, Mexico, during a major pageant.
In front of a global audience, I screamed “FRAUD” and demanded respect for all contestants, after witnessing severe misconduct behind the scenes—actions that endangered contestants and violated every value pageantry is supposed to stand for.
My act of courage went viral. But only weeks later, the pandemic hit, media attention collapsed, and my voice—along with the deeper conversation about corruption in pageantry—was silenced.
Today, my 2020 video has resurfaced because of the current global controversy surrounding Miss Universe. As the public questions transparency, fairness, and women’s rights within major pageant systems, my story has regained urgent relevance.
The Miss Universe current public stance is now amplifying an organization whose behavior contradicts the ethics that young women and the international community expect and deserve.
I am speaking up again because:
**I was almost killed in Mexico for exposing the truth.
My viral moment wasn’t a meltdown—it was a historic act of courage. It symbolized what pageantry should be:
A platform where women are respected, protected, and treated with dignity.
My story is not just about a crown—
It is about women’s rights, courage, freedom of speech, inspiration, empowerment, empathy and so much more.
I love to share my story and motivate women all over the world to love themselves and I’d most importantly want to share that a crown doesn’t define you. It’s your essence, personality, character, courage, and everything that you had to overcome in your life that makes you a queen. At last I realized, I don’t need a crown to be a queen and neither do you.
Jesenia Orozco
Owner of Less4Legal
International Beauty Queen • Advocate for Women’s Rights -Viral Whistleblower of Miss Global Colombia 2020-2022
Miss Wellington USA 2024
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