The sudden end to a legal battle between dethroned Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant officials was prompted by the revelation of a "sex tape," according to a source familiar with the lawsuits' settlement.
The legal battle between Miss California USA pageant officials and former beauty queen Carrie Prejean ended Tuesday with an agreement to drop their claims, according to a pageant spokesman.
Miss California USA officials want Carrie Prejean to repay $5,200 they say she borrowed to have her breasts augmented last year.
All that glitters may not be gold, but for Colombia's narco-molls the most important thing is that it glitters.
A Mississippi schoolteacher was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for shooting and stabbing to death her lover's pregnant fiancee in 2006.
When did the Heisman Trophy race become lengthier and costlier than a presidential campaign?
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.
Prejean's "bigoted statements" caused her own downfall, Moakler's lawyer says
Carrie Prejean has filed a lawsuit against Miss California USA officials who stripped her of her title, accusing them of libel and religious discrimination for her views on same-sex marriage.
The Hills star channels Britney Spears as she performs her song, "Body Language"
The sudden end to a legal battle between dethroned Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant officials was prompted by the revelation of a "sex tape," according to a source familiar with the lawsuits' settlement.
The legal battle between Miss California USA pageant officials and former beauty queen Carrie Prejean ended Tuesday with an agreement to drop their claims, according to a pageant spokesman.
Miss California USA officials want Carrie Prejean to repay $5,200 they say she borrowed to have her breasts augmented last year.
All that glitters may not be gold, but for Colombia's narco-molls the most important thing is that it glitters.
A Mississippi schoolteacher was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for shooting and stabbing to death her lover's pregnant fiancee in 2006.
When did the Heisman Trophy race become lengthier and costlier than a presidential campaign?
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.
Prejean's "bigoted statements" caused her own downfall, Moakler's lawyer says
Carrie Prejean has filed a lawsuit against Miss California USA officials who stripped her of her title, accusing them of libel and religious discrimination for her views on same-sex marriage.
The Hills star channels Britney Spears as she performs her song, "Body Language"
The country has the first repeat winners as Stefania Fernandez takes the 2009 crown
Venezuelan Stefania Fernandez was named Miss Universe 2009, beating out more than 80 other contestants during a pageant held Sunday night in Nassau, Bahamas.
The reality star will sing "Body Language" at the Miss Universe pageant this month
The Internet video appears to feature the Grey's Anatomy star and his wife
Carrie Prejean's lawyer gave Miss California USA executive director Keith Lewis what he said was a final warning to retract statements made about the former beauty queen or face a defamation lawsuit.
Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean wants to set the record straight.
Tami Farrell, who became Miss California USA last week when Donald Trump dumped Carrie Prejean, promises to avoid controversy during the five months of her reign.
The ousted Miss California USA calls the reasons for her firing trumped up
The ousted Miss California USA insists gay marriage, not contract violations, cost her the crown
Carrie Prejean has been dethroned as Miss California USA for "contract violations," including missing scheduled pageant events, according to a state pageant official.
Donald Trump blasts the Miss USA runner-up for not playing nice with others
After her crowning in January, Katie Stam, Miss America 2009, went from beauty queen to traveling machine -- within minutes. "The moment they put that crown on my head I started work...literally," she told CNN.
Donald Trump's decision to let Miss California USA Carrie Prejean keep her title convinced Shanna Moakler to quit as head of the pageant's California organization.
Moakler says she no longer believes in the pageant after Carrie Prejean is allowed to keep her crown
Donald Trump's decision to let Miss California USA Carrie Prejean keep her title convinced Shanna Moakler to quit as head of the pageant's California organization.
Moakler, a state pageant official, tells PEOPLE she now supports Carrie Prejean after venting her frustrations at her
Donald Trump will let Miss California USA Carrie Prejean keep her title despite controversy over seminude photos and charges by state pageant officials that she had abandoned her duties to devote time to opposition to same-sex marriage.
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"The pictures taken were fine," Donald Trump says of Carrie Prejean's semi-nude photos
The Miss California USA controversy is playing out like one of Donald Trump's highly rated reality shows, with viewers waiting to hear whether he'll utter his famous phrase, "You're fired!"
But first, state pageant officials get their digs into Miss USA runner-up Carrie Prejean
Miss California USA pageant officials appear close to announcing if they will strip Carrie Prejean of her crown because of her lingerie photos and same-sex marriage statements.
A second lingerie-modeling photo of Miss California USA Carrie Prejean has appeared after she assured pageant officials this week that the earlier shot was the only one she had appeared in.
Miss California USA Carrie Prejean has assured pageant officials that a lingerie modeling photo published online this week is the only one she posed for, the state pageant director said.
Comic and best-selling author Joy Behar appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" Wednesday.
Miss California USA Carrie Prejean "breached her contract" by keeping semi-nude photos a secret and could be stripped of her beauty queen title, according to a state pageant spokesman.
Carrie Prejean, the Miss USA contestant from California who declared her opposition to same-sex marriage on the pageant stage, will star in a new $1.5 million ad campaign funded by the National Organization for Marriage.
The reality TV star supports gay marriage, says she "definitely thinks a lot broader" than Carrie Prejean
A lot of folks are always saying they like to keep it real, that they want authenticity and straight talk. Yet when someone actually does it, there is hell to pay.
The University of Indianapolis undergrad wins the pageant in Las Vegas
Pressures after her drug scandal in 2006 pushed the beauty queen to the edge, she admits on Gone Country
Classically trained ballet dancer Riyo Mori had dreams of dancing on Broadway, but her plans suddenly changed when, aged 21, she won the Miss Universe beauty pageant.
Riyo Mori is a classically trained ballet dancer who won the 2007 Miss Universe beauty pageant. She talks to CNN about Tokyo, dancing and baseball.
A 23-year-old beauty queen and seven men arrested in vehicles loaded with weapons and cash near the central Mexico city of Guadalajara have been transferred to Mexico City, the state news agency said Wednesday.
The Extra correspondent returns as emcee of the televised pageant
Tara Grinstead, a 30-year-old schoolteacher and former beauty queen, attended a Saturday night beauty pageant and then left a dinner party, telling friends she was going straight home. She has not been seen since that night -- October 22, 2005.
"There was a determination there," remembers contestant Maryline Blackburn
Just like last year, the American Miss Universe entry tripped during the gown parade
Miss Missouri, Candice Crawford, makes the Top 10 but loses to Miss Texas
The Miss USA judge hits the club and dances into the night
Fortune Small Business first met Diana Reed when she was a senior at the University of Iowa, double-majoring in business and dance, starring at football games as one of the Big Ten's top baton twirlers, and running her own for-profit twirling studio on the side. This week, the rest of the world got a look at Reed's talents, as the reigning Miss Iowa twirled her way down the red carpet at the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas.
Thursday, January 24, 2008 I feel like the biggest jerk because of some of these "judges rules."
Two beauty-pageant employees allegedly involved in the pepper-spraying of beauty queen Ingrid Marie Rivera's belongings at the Nov. 24 Miss Puerto Rico contest are expected to be arrested within the coming days, say San Juan police.
The love of my life is seeing other women. It started innocently enough, a bite to eat, a stroll through the park -- the stuff I never have time for. Then came the private jokes, the pet names, the stolen kisses, the bubble baths.
After a "tabulation error," Miss California USA organizers have stripped the original winner of her crown and awarded it to Raquel Beezley, 21.
Video courtesy NBC Miss Puerto Rico Ingrid Marie Rivera says her alleged pepper-spray incident – and the controversy it has sparked – will not trip her up on the road to the Miss Universe pageant.
Mario Lopez is getting pretty good at this pageant stuff. The Dancing with the Stars hunk is coming back for a third round as host of the Miss Teen USA pageant in Pasadena, Calif., on Aug. 24.
A Frenchwoman has helped Japan return as a Miss Universe superpower. But are her proteges Japanese enough?
Ten seconds Miss USA Rachel Smith would probably like to forget: Slipping and landing on her behind while modeling her evening gown at Monday night's Miss Universe pageant in Mexico City. (See video below.)
Donald Trump ended up getting a "Stone Cold Stunner," but he walked out of Ford Field with his hair. Vince McMahon wasn't as lucky.
Larger-than-life developer, reality-television star, one-time presidential candidate - Donald Trump has done almost everything over his 60 years. A workingman's plutocrat, Trump survived near-bankr...
Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer has an unusual resume: tap dancer, baton twirler, Miss Georgia 1976, M.D., and former president of the American College of Physicians.
Miss America is waving goodbye to Atlantic City, N.J., organizers of the pageant announced Thursday.
Ivory-tower academics, watch out: Donald Trump is getting into the education business.
A former West Virginia beauty queen has sued dozens of Web site operators for posting an Internet porn video falsely claiming to show her in a sex romp in the back of a Channel 13 news truck.
Sharron "Nikki" Redmond was an accidental beauty queen who shot and killed her boyfriend when she learned he was seeing another woman, a prosecutor told jurors during opening statements Tuesday in Redmond's murder trial.
First an Australian became a royal princess in Denmark and now a fellow countrywoman has earned another crown of sorts, with Miss Australia Jennifer Hawkins winning the Miss Universe 2004 pageant.
When the seven-person branding agency Powell won the Rheingold beer account in July 2002, the client's instructions were simple: Relaunch a brand that had been dead for almost 25 years, do it for l...
For critics, the latest Miss America pageant. . . is still a distasteful show that exploits ((the contestants)) as sex objects. . . The. . . pageants have tried to become more socially conscious, c...
WICHITA, KANSAS -- Home state favorite Kelli McCarty . . . was crowned Miss USA 1991 in a pageant marred by lawsuits . . . The crowning of the new Miss USA ended the reign of Carole Gist of Detroit...
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