the mogul has never spoken to either him , or any of his team , about the selection process . `` The story posted on that site contains many misquotes and -LSB- is -RSB- highly inaccurate , '' Schwandt wrote . `` I would like to disassociate myself from it completely and anything negative in regards to Miss Universe or even suggesting that Donald Trump ` rigs ' his event . I 'm perplexed as to why Guanabee.com would run a story such as this when they are aware that it is inaccurate . '' Daniel Mauser , publisher of Guanabee , said his site stands by the story , which resulted after Schwandt was contacted about his role choreographing both the pageant and a much talked-about performance by reality-star-turned-singer Heidi Montag . `` Whatever you see quoted in the article is verbatim what he said , '' Mauser said . `` So I can understand why he would want to retract those words , but unfortunately that was what was said . '' A statement from Miss Universe Organization President Paula M. Shugart , released Wednesday , said that `` to suggest the pageant is somehow orchestrated or `
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- An interview with a choreographer for the Miss Universe pageant spurred controversy Wednesday over alleged claims that Donald Trump personally selects some of the finalists . Donald Trump is at the center of a brewing controversy over the Miss Universe finalists . The Q&A with Michael Schwandt , which appeared on Guanabee.com , quotes him as saying that `` it 's just kind of common knowledge that -LSB- Trump -RSB- picks six of the top 15 single-handedly . '' `` And , his reason for doing so , as he told me and he 's told the girls before , is that he left it all up to preliminary judging in the past , and some of the most beautiful women , in his opinion , were not in the top 15 , and he was kind of upset about that , '' the story quotes Schwandt as saying . `` And he decided that he would pick a certain number and let the judges pick a certain number . '' Via e-mail , Schwandt said that he `` was speaking in hypothetical jest '' when he said Trump picks some of the finalists and said