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Trump: Miss Cali Stays
 Trump: 
 Miss Cali Stays  
May 12, 2009 10:51 AM CDT

Trump: Miss Cali Stays

(Newser) - Donald Trump declined to fire the embattled Miss California today, TMZ reports. In a press conference, Trump, the owner of the Miss USA pageant, praised Carrie Prejean for answering a "tough" question about gay marriage 'honestly"—the same way, he noted, the president and the majority of Americans...

More Topless Miss Cali Pics Found

Trump's decision expected today

(Newser) - Donald Trump’s decision on whether to remove Carrie Prejean as Miss California just got a little bit harder. TMZ uncovered even more topless photos—and these are from last year, unlike the first set, which she says were taken when she was a minor. The partially nude photos are...

Prejean: 'Satan Set Gay Trap for Me'

She rejected devil and 'stood up for God' on gay marriage, Prejean tells Dobson

(Newser) - Miss California has told a Christian radio program that "Satan tried to tempt me" with the gay marriage pageant question that rocketed her into controversy. "I wanted to sound politically correct" and win the Miss USA pageant, Carrie Prejean told evangelical leader James Dobson yesterday. "Then God...

Organizers Defer to Trump on Miss Cali Title

(Newser) - Officials of the Miss California USA pageant have strongly criticized titleholder Carrie Prejean, but said today it's not their decision whether she should be stripped of her crown. Co-executive directors Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler told a Beverly Hills press conference that only Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump can...

Miss California May Get the Boot Today

Pageant officials meeting

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean may be spending her last few hours with the Miss California crown. The pageant directors are holding a news conference today; Prejean wasn't invited, but runner-up Tami Farrell was, ABC News reports. And Donald Trump, who co-owns the Miss Universe Organization, has skedded one for tomorrow. Her offense?...

Guess Who's Friends With Miss California

Prejean's dad says Palin called—and gay community's 'empathic'

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean’s dad says support for his daughter has been pouring in, and she received a call from an equally controversial governor. “She called her directly to offer support,” William Prejean said of Sarah Palin. He also says Carrie has gotten encouragement from an even less likely...

Get Off Prejean's Back: Pastor
 Get Off Prejean's Back: Pastor 

May 8, 2009 9:20 AM CDT

Get Off Prejean's Back: Pastor

Plus, pageant exec stars in new pro-diversity campaign

(Newser) - Topless photos of Carrie Prejean may disqualify her from being Miss California, but “they do not disqualify her from being able to share her opinion,” her pastor tells E! “We all have things in our past that we would not want to have broadcast on national television....

Prejean Parents Slung Gay Accusations in Divorce

Both sides alleged homosexuality, court docs reveal Gay Angles in Folks' Divorce May Have Shaped Prejean

(Newser) - Both Carrie Prejean’s parents hurled accusations of homosexuality during their messy divorce and decade-long custody battle, TMZ reports after reviewing court papers. The mother of the embattled Miss California repeatedly accused their father of being gay. In return, he told the girls their stepfather was gay—along with all...

Miss Cali Offered $1M for Porn
 Miss Cali Offered $1M for Porn 
May 7, 2009 9:05 AM CDT

Miss Cali Offered $1M for Porn

Also, second racy pic unveiled

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean's topless-photo scandal could cost her the Miss California crown, but it’s brought her a $1 million offer to star in a porno, TMZ reports. “This is purely a business offer and has nothing to do with your religion or your personal beliefs,” Vivid Entertainment’s...

Maybe I Should Be Miss Cali: Runner-Up

Promises focus on 'positive aspects' as photos haunt Prejean

(Newser) - The California beauty who lost the state pageant to Carrie Prejean is eying the tiara, TMZ reports. Prejean’s” beliefs are not what is in question, but her contractual obligations to the Miss California USA program,” Tami Farrell wrote officials, alluding to semi-nude shots of Prejean that may violate...

Racy Photos May Cost Prejean Her Crown

No decision yet from pageant officials

(Newser) - The seminude photos of Carrie Prejean that emerged recently may not be the only ones—and the secret snaps could cost the controversial gay marriage opponent the Miss California crown, CNN reports. Pageant officials held closed-door meetings yesterday to discuss Prejean’s fate. “The reports say that there are...

Miss Cali Slams Nude Shots as 'Intolerant'

(Newser) - Want to see Miss California’s fake boobs? A nearly-nude shot of Carrie Prejean surfaced yesterday on TheDirty.com, showing the model topless, but with her arm over her breasts. The site claims to have five more shots, including one of her completely nude, but even a single semi-nude shot...

We Paid for Implants: Pageant Boss

We wanted to boost her confidence, says co-director

(Newser) - Another Miss California pageant organizer has confirmed that the pageant paid for winner Carrie Prejean’s breast implants, the Huffington Post reports. “We assisted when Carrie came to us and voiced the interest in having the procedure done,” said co-director Keith Lewis on CBS' Early Show, though “...

Next for Miss California: $1.5M Marriage Ad Campaign

She's heading to DC on behalf of conservative group

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean is going to push “opposite marriage” in a new $1.5 million ad campaign bankrolled by same-sex opponent National Organization for Marriage, CNN reports. The group says the ad will call “gay-marriage advocates to account for their unwillingness to debate the real issue: gay marriage has...

Miss California Pageant Paid for Prejean's Implants

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean—the Miss USA contestant whose views on gay marriage made her an instant celebrity—now has another media flap to deal with: The organizers of the Miss California pageant say they paid for her to have breast implants, reports Access Hollywood. "It's not a rarity," says...

Miss California 'Made Me Laugh': Rosie

Comedian found gay marriage comment funny

(Newser) - It was only a matter of time before Rosie O’Donnell commented on Miss California’s gay marriage drama, but the comic wasn’t too harsh. Carrie Prejean’s comment “made me laugh,” O’Donnell told the New York Daily News. “She said, ‘In America, you...

Miss Cali Really, Really Not Sorry on Gay Marriage

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean, the controversial Miss California, defied state sponsors who asked her to apologize for her remarks about gay marriage, the AP reports. On the contrary, Prejean—coached by her San Diego megachurch’s founder, a former NFL player—has become more resolute in her beliefs. “I learned that...

Gay-Rights Group Reaches Out to Miss California

Group hopes to change her mind in light of anti-gay harassment

(Newser) - Carrie Prejean, the Miss USA contestant who stirred up controversy with her opposition to gay marriage, may soon be having dinner with gays and lesbians from her home state, the San Francisco Bay Times reports. Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, said he invited Prejean because “Miss California...

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