Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean's religious discrimination lawsuit against pageant officials is "without merit," an attorney for pageant co-director Shanna Moakler said.
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"On Ms. Moakler's behalf, I can say unequivocally that Ms. Prejean's lawsuit is without merit," Mel Avanzado said in a statement...
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Carrie Prejean claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that she was fired as Miss California USA in an act of religious discrimination by pageant officials Shanna Moakler and Keith Lewis.
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Prejean filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Moakler and Lewis, as well as pageant organization publicist Roger Neal. Her suit claims religious discrimination, slander, libel, public disclosure of private facts, intentional infliction of ...
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Former Miss California Carrie Prejean says she will "absolutely not" pose for Playboy or appear on the NBC reality show I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!
Prejean, deposed from her throne this week after pageant officials accused her of missing appearances, ruled out the show and magazine in an interview Friday with Today.
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Carrie Prejean's fight over same-sex marriage and risqué modeling photos weren't enough to cost her the Miss California crown, but the pageant says she's been stripped of it for the ultimate beauty queen crime: not showing up.
"The Miss California USA Organization, in conjunction with the Miss Universe Organization and with the blessing of its owner, Mr. Donald J. Trump, announced today the termination of Carrie Prejean as Miss California USA 2009, citing continued breach of contract issues," the Miss California USA Organization said in a statement.
Miss Malibu Tami Farrell, who was the first runner-up, is now Miss California.
Prejean, who Trump spared after Perez Hilton and other bloggers posted the risqué photos, removed her Wednesday because of her "unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization," Keith Lewis, the pageant's executive director, said in a statement.
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