The embalmers did a wonderful job.
I don’t quite understand how they could have gotten her to drop a lawsuit by threatening to release a sex tape of her. Isn’t that illegal somehow?
If they planned to use it in the trial to demonstrate yet another reason they did not want her to represent California then I don’t think it would be considered blackmail.
Unfortunately true. Vetting the contestants is supposed to be done before they are elected. Either they knew about it and didn’t care, or they didn’t think it was worth trying to find out about it.
While I agree with the rest of you that she is an idiot, I don’t think someone should be able to fired because of their political or religious belief. And being pro-life is always one or the other.
The pageant people knew they couldn’t win on the merits of the case But they did have something they could use against her, and they used it. They had a built-in loophole to keep from getting prosecuted for blackmail.
:smack: So it was. Same actress, though, so half points?
They didn’t become aware of it until after the pageant. She was in breech of her contract by not having divulged that she did a series of porn tapes when she entered the pageant. She didn’t have a leg to stand on. It wasn’t blackmail, it was straight up breech of contract on her part.
Check, check… how much makeup is Lenin’s corpse wearing?
That assumes that the pageant officials are the only people who have copies of the sex tape(s), which I doubt, considering her ex-boyfriend is apparently nattering about them to any gossip rag which will listen.
Larry King was really funny on the Daily Show.
Not if she were contending that she is a pure as the driven snow religious girl who was just so offended by the attacks against her religiosity. The nude tapes are relevant and suggest she is a poser. It contradicts her stance and suggests she is a gold digger trying to shake down the beauty contest for money.
I don’t think they were threatening to release them, merely that they had them.
1.) I agree that that her stance, as stated in her answer in the pageant (i.e., it was against her personal religious beliefs, with no mention of legality or legislation), should not have been grounds to disqualify her. People can believe whatever stupid shit they want.
2.) Where is this pro-life thing coming from? The whole kerfluffle was about same-sex marriage.
I wonder if she’ll sue over this comment.
Why on earth does Lewis feel the need to issue a statement? Anyway, it’s not like anyone is going to have much sympathy for her. They chose her, after all. It’s not her fault if they didn’t look beyond tits and teeth.
She wasn’t stripped of her Miss California crown for being a hateful bigot. She may have lost Perez Hilton’s vote costing her first place in the Miss USA for it though. The pagents case is that she was spending all of her time sucking up to the RW nutjobs and ignoring her contracted duties as Miss California. The cherry on top for them is that it came out after the fact that she had hidden a number of photos and videos that she was required to inform them about, thus breeching her contract in another way as well.
Prejean would have to prove it isn’t true.
Sympathy for them, I mean. Although her works too.
I have sympathy for them. Besides, she’s been trashing them, why shouldn’t they say something back?
Not after the settlement.
So what?
I believe that Keith Lewis issuing a statement is valid because … well, why not throw some more entertainment cherries on the top of this shit sundae.
Need I remind everyone again that the hallowed institution that is being sullied throughout this whole ordeal is the Who Gives A Shit About Miss America Contest.
Gay pageant judges, free speech, fake tits, nude pictures, religious persecution, masturbation videos, Larry King, lawsuits, statements, … I’m just hoping we get into UFO abductions and maybe something on the Illuminati to officially turn this story into The Funniest Blip of Entertainment News of the Year.
I haven’t been following this but if her being terminated supposedly had nothing to do with her gay marriage gaffe, why does gay marriage have anything to do with it?
And also, why is her lying about the “sex” tape relevant? Why was it even brought up?
Her grandfather fought for General Patton; what more proof do you need that they’re lying?
My favorite moment is her hysterical tearful spiel glurge over how Gwampa’s fighting for Patton somehow gave her the right to be in beauty pageants and express her opinion as a Christian.