Archives for October 2009

The organizers of the Miss California USA pageant sued former beauty queen Carrie Prejean Oct. 19 to get back the $5,200 they gave her in January for breast implants.

The legal action, a countersuit responding to a suit by Prejean, also seeks proceeds from a book Prejean is writing.

Prejean won last year’s Miss California USA pageant, then got breast implants to help her compete in the national pageant in April, where she placed second.

There she ignited a controversy when she expressed her opposition to gay marriage in response to a question by a pageant judge, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton.

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The organization that directs the Miss California USA pageant is countersuing former beauty queen Carrie Prejean over the breast augmentation surgery it had helped to fund prior to this year’s Miss USA pageant.

“Had [Prejean] heeded the guidance of the Gospel of John, who admonished only those who are without sin to cast stones in judgment, she might have avoided this legal battle," states the lawsuit filed by K2 Productions, alluding to the suit Prejean filed this past August.

Nearly three months after the Miss California crown was taken away from her, 22-year-old Prejean filed a lawsuit against pageant officials for libel, slander, and religious discrimination, claiming that she has been subject to public ridicule and humiliation and lost out on modeling work because she lost her crown.

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Payback?  Miss California USA wants Carrie Prejean to repay $5,200 she borrowed from them for breast implants.  A CNN News report details that the beauty pageant people believe the implants are no longer private thanks to those photos of Prejean in that tiny little white bikini. Dita's
Dita's "Executive" Decision (Image: Splash News) Check that picture out here, plus more on the demands (and a link to video) from Jessica Warren.  More buzz being created by Dita's ample chest.

Dita Von Teese has revealed that she interviewed 12 different doctors before having a boob job – to make sure she made the right decision. The 37-year-old burlesque star had her boobs boosted when she was 21 years old, and said that it was not a decision she took lightly.

She said: "My breasts were a lot fuller when I was a teenager, and then, after some dramatic weight loss, that was it – they were gone and never came back!” She added: "I decided to have them done at 21. I saved up my money and did loads of research, interviewing 12 doctors and other people who'd had it done, to make sure I made a good, executive decision."

Former Miss California Carrie Prejean has been through a lot. First, racy pictures of her appeared on the Internet. But, Donald Trump, head of the Miss World Organization, told her she didn’t have to step down.

It seemed like things were looking up, until Carrie Prejean received word that she would lose the crown after all but for a different reason.

Miss California officials say Prejean failed to uphold her duties as the state rep, shirking public appearances and making unauthorized appearances of her own. But, Prejean’s camp says that just isn’t true, and that she was really fired for speaking out against gay marriage.

A lawyer for Prejean says the events were not required: “There is no indication that those would be official events that pageant winners would actually wear their tiaras and sashes,” said Charles LiMandri in a statement defending his client.

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San Diego resident and deposed beauty queen Carrie Prejean may lose more than her Miss California crown.

A new lawsuit claims she owes pageant organizers $5,200 for breast implants she received in January.

K2 Productions, which directs the Miss California USA pageant, claims their company loaned her the money after she requested the surgery “to be more competitive” at the April 2009 Miss USA pageant. She verbally agreed to repay the K2 loan, the complaint states.

The San Diego Christian College student was stripped of her crown in June after organizers accused her of violating her pageant contract.

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Carrie Prejean's lawyer has termed a lawsuit filed by USA pageant officials seeking return of the money the pageant paid for her breast implants as 'appalling and pathetic.'

The surgery cost $5,200 and Pageant officials claim Prejan entered into an oral agreement to refund the money. In a statement released to RadarOnline.com, Carrie's lawyer states:

"This is just the latest installment in K2 Production's ongoing smear campaign against Carrie Prejean. They have proven, once again, that they will use whatever scurrilous accusations they can dredge up – or invent – to try and tarnish Carrie's reputation and her good name. It is both appalling and pathetic to see K2 and their friends in Hollywood try to destroy this young woman simply for standing up for her beliefs."

In their lawsuit, K2 had stated that they "agreed to loan Ms. Prejean money to pay for breast augmentation surgery so that she (in her opinion) would be more competitive at the Miss USA 2009 pageant" and "the idea for Ms. Prejean to have the breast augmentation surgery came from Ms. Prejean herself, not from K2 Productions or the Miss Universe Organization."

Prejean was stripped of her crown in August for breaching her contract and refusing to make appearances. The 22-year-old beauty then sued the state organization, claiming it engaged in slander and discriminated against her because of her religious beliefs, causing severe emotional distress.

On Monday, K2 Productions filed a demurrer and cross-complaint, claiming that after Prejean sparked a media firestorm with her answer to a question about gay marriage at the Miss USA pageant, she had "an inflated sense of self," turned further against her state team, abandoned her obligation as the titleholder, and violated multiple provisions of her contract.

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Carrie Prejean made headlines last April in the Miss USA pageant when she famously responded in the question period that she believed marriage is between a man and a woman. The question came from celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton, and two days later Prejean was in New York appearing on the Today Show.

Escorting her to those media interviews was her pastor Miles McPherson of The Rock Church in San Diego, CA, where Prejean has attended for the past four years. McPherson spoke about the occasion in the October issue of Church Executive, a business magazine for larger and megachurches.

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When you think of pin-up calendar girls, do you shut your eyes and envision U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)? Or perhaps that uber-hottie, and anti-feminist, Phyllis Schlafly?

Better start.

The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, a think tank geared toward female conservatives, has released its fifth annual “Great American Conservative Women” calendar this month and – wait for it – has nearly sold out all 25,000 copies of its first printing.

The calendar features 11 conservative women, including Schlafly, Bachmann-- she with the “foot-in-mouth” habit of spouting off sound bites that Fox News and MSNBC love to gobble up -- as well as the va-va-va-voom Ann Coulter and former Miss California Carrie Prejean, who voiced her opposition to gay marriage this spring while competing in the Miss USA pageant.

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A letter writer (TNT, 10-2) states that Carrie Prejean was fired as Miss California because of her honesty when she answered a judge’s question about her views on gay marriage.

The truth is that she was fired because she refused, on several occasions, to fulfill her duties as Miss California. She refused to attend events that her contract stipulated she would attend.

While Miss Prejean is certainly entitled to whatever misguided beliefs she holds, she accepted a commitment to the Miss California organization when she entered that contest.

The fact that she was able to garner more media attention as a poor, persecuted Christian who just wanted to answer the question in the best way she knew how – well, let’s just say she hasn’t suffered in losing her crown.

In fact, she appears to simply have switched one crown for another as she currently appears to be Miss Conservative USA.