EXCLUSIVE: Carrie Prejean Lawyer Ready To Sue Over Sex Tape Claims
Posted on Nov 04, 2009 @ 05:31PM - 27 comments
Just one day after a settlement was reached in the lawsuit between the dethroned Miss California Carrie Prejean and the Miss California Pageant, it appears that there might have been a breach in the contract.
Carrie Prejean And Miss California Pageant Settle
"In my 26 years of practice I have never dealt with a situation like this," her attorney Charles Limandri told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview. RadarOnline.com is aware of the existence of a raunchy sex tape of Prejean that is being reported as the reason she settled the lawsuit. "It seems as if someone has acted in an unethical and unlawful manner by even raising this issue," said Limandri. "We are weighing our options and if this is a breach of contract we are considering suing for punitive damages."
PHOTOS: Miss California Carrie Prejean
Prejean sued the pageant after she lost her crown, claiming they were discriminating against her religious beliefs. In the Miss California Pageant counter suit, they claimed that Carrie never paid the organization back for her breast augmentation surgery and tried to have the pageant director Keith Lewis fired.
Problems With Carrie Prejean Began Before Pageant Says Official
The settlement was reached Tuesday and a joint statement said: "Carrie Prejean, Keith Lewis and K2 Productions have dropped their claim against each other and wish each other the best in their future endeavors."
While he would not deny or confirm the existence of a sex tape, Limandri told RadarOnline.com: "In the agreement everyone agreed to deny previous claims and accusations."
EXCLUSIVE: Carrie Prejean Responds To Miss California Lawsuit
Carrie's book Still Standing: The Untold Story Against Hate, Gossip and Political Attacks will hit bookstores on November 9.
Carrie Prejean And Miss California Pageant Settle
Posted on Nov 03, 2009 @ 04:47PM - 4 comments
Former Miss California, Carrie Prejean, and the Miss California Executive Director, Keith Lewis have settled their differences and are ready to move on.
PHOTOS: Miss California Carrie Prejean
In an official statement released Tuesday both sides said, “Carrie Prejean, Keith Lewis and K2 Productions have dropped their claim against each other and wish each other the best in their future endeavors.”
Problems With Carrie Prejean Began Before Pageant Says Official
Back in August Carrie Prejean filed a lawsuit against Miss California USA claiming religious discrimination, pageant officials fired back with their own lawsuit demanding Prejean pay back $5,200 they claim they lent the former beauty queen for breast augmentation.
Carrie Prejean Sues Miss California USA
A source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com that when Prejean saw the countersuit filed by the pageant she decided she no longer to pursue her case.
Pageant Officials Say Prejean Never Paid Back Money For Breast Augmentation
Keith Lewis said in his own statement Tuesday, “We are moving forward from the past and looking towards the crowning of two winners and the new look of the upcoming Miss California USA pageant, telecast live on November 22nd.”
EXCLUSIVE: Carrie Prejean Responds To Miss California Lawsuit
Posted on Oct 20, 2009 @ 06:13PM - 12 comments
The beauty pageant world never has a dull moment. Carrie Prejean has responded to the countersuit the Miss CA USA pageant filed against her on Monday. Carrie’s lawyer released a statement to RadarOnline.com where he accused the pageant officials of trying to besmirch Carrie.
PHOTOS: Miss California: Carrie Prejean
"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."
Problems With Carrie Prejean Began Before Pageant Says Official
Keith Lewis, the executive director of the Miss CA USA pageant, told RadarOnline.com on Monday: "Carrie Prejean asked us for the breast augmentation because she felt it would make her more competitive in the Miss USA pageant. She asked for the money and never paid it back. The surgery cost $5,200.”
BREAKING NEWS: Carrie Prejean Sues Miss California USA, Claiming Religious Discrimination
Prejean has written a book about being de-crowned as Miss California. Still Standing: The Untold Story Against Hate, Gossip and Political Attacks will hit bookstores on November 9. Carrie's publisher tells RadarOnline.com that she wrote the book herself, and did not use a ghostwriter.
EXCLUSIVE: Carrie Prejean Tried To Get Pageant Director Fired
EXCLUSIVE: Miss California Officials Say Carrie Prejean Never Paid Back Money For Breast Augmentation & Tried To Get Director Fired
Posted on Oct 19, 2009 @ 08:04PM - 18 comments
It is the beauty battle that still has legs one year later. The Miss California Pageant has filed suit against former beauty queen Carrie Prejean, alleging she never paid them back for her surgery and tried to get the pageant director fired.
See The Court Papers Here and Here
"In January, 2009, Ms. Prejean and K2 Productions entered into an oral agreement whereby K2 Productions 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. Ms. Prejean agreed that she would repay the loan, and proceeded to have her desired breast augmentation surgery. 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," the papers said.
Problems With Carrie Prejean Began Before Pageant Says Official
Echoed pageant director Keith Lewis in an exclusive statement to RadarOnline.com: "Carrie Prejean asked us for the breast augmentation because she felt it would make her more competitive in the Miss USA pageant. She asked for the money and never paid it back. The surgery cost $5,200."
PHOTOS: Miss California: Carrie Prejean
The papers also state that on June 4, 2009, Prejean e-mailed Miss Universe Organization President Paula Shugart in support of two of the show's producers taking over the organization. "And to add insult to injury, Ms. Prejean said her recommendation was 'Just from me to you' - obviously because she was not telling Mr. Lewis that she was seeking to have K2 Productions replaced as the Miss California USA franchise holder," the papers added.
BREAKING NEWS: Carrie Prejean Sues Miss California USA, Claiming Religious Discrimination
EXCLUSIVE: Miss California Pageant To Crown Two Winners & Asks Carrie Prejean To Tape Message
Posted on Oct 16, 2009 @ 07:39AM - 3 comments
The pageant world has skyrocketed to the top of everyone’s entertainment list, and the Miss CA USA pageant has received national attention since the Carrie Prejean scandal. Now, the competition is getting a makeover. Executive Director Keith Lewis confirmed to RadarOnline.com: “We’re taking care of business by crowning two winners.” He also revealed that they have asked Prejean to tape a message for the show.
EXCLUSIVE: The Secret E-Mails Behind Carrie Prejean's Firing; Plus Her Lawyer Speaks Out
Posted on Jun 16, 2009 @ 08:58AM - Add a comment
Former Miss California Carrie Prejean is fighting back against the Miss California pageant organizers. "Keith Lewis tried to set Carrie up and the way he did it is despicable," Carrie’s lawyer Charles LiMandi tells RadarOnline.com. He says that Carrie shouldn’t have lost her crown, and he suspects ulterior malicious motives from the pageant officials!
Click here to read the E-Mails!
The Miss CA USA saga is far from over as the de-throned beauty queen considers legal action against the pageant director. "Carrie is looking at all of her options and definitely considering taking legal action against the Miss California USA pageant,” her lawyer tells RadarOnline.com. “There is a long statute of limitations so she doesn't have to do anything right now but she is absolutely looking into this and she isn't afraid to go all the way to trial with this case.” However, the 22 year old blonde pageant queen may not sue if the money starts rolling in. LiMandi explains what is going to stop her from suing, “She has told me that she has had thousands of requests for speaking engagements and quite a few job offers, so she may not find it in her best interest to sue after all, it just depends on the career decision she makes."
One of the major sticking points in the controversy was the book deal that Carrie was working on. Her lawyer explained to us that while Carrie has hired a literary publicist, she has not signed a book deal. LiMandi was emailing with the Trump office the Monday before Carrie was fired. “Mr. Trump supported her writing a book,” he tells RadarOnline.com. “He was in the process of writing an amendment to her contract to allow her to write the book when Carrie was fired. We were surprised to hear that that was one of the reasons she was fired.”
As for the claims by the pageant officials that Carrie was was making appearances in violation of her contract, her lawyer denies that claim and tells RadarOnline.com that her appearance for Shape Magazine was set up by Mr. Trump. “That’s the kind of thing Keith Lewis is saying she did as a breach of her contract, but that isn’t true.”
Carrie's lawyer tells RadarOnline.com that the published nasty email exchange Carrie had with Keith Lewis was a mistake that the beauty queen made after Lewis denied her request to visit the troops on the USS Ronald Reagan. "Carrie was frustrated and upset and she sent those emails in the heat of the moment. She knows they weren't nice but she was very upset and felt that Mr. Lewis was not treating her fairly."
“She wanted to go down and meet the troops on the USS Ronald Reagan and Keith Lewis wouldn’t give her immediate approval so she asked Mr. Trump and he intervened and asked Keith what the problem was and he said he was still thinking about it and Trump told him it was a no brainer. So she did that and it was a big hit. Visiting the troops was an honor for her, as Miss California and as Carrie Prejean.”
Even though the beauty queen doesn’t have her crown, all of her ill will is towards Keith Lewis, and not Donald Trump, the owner of the pageant. "Carrie and Donald have spoken several times since she was fired and he has told her that he was only going by what he was told by the pageant director Keith Lewis, but we feel that Keith lied to get his own way and to get rid of Carrie."
(Photo: Zuma Press)
Carrie Prejean Bails from Special Olympics Medals Ceremony
Posted on Jun 13, 2009 @ 10:12AM - Add a comment
While former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean has no problem being confrontational with pageant director Keith Lewis, looks like she doesn't intend on bumping into her replacement anytime soon.
New Miss CA Tammi Farrell has been booked to appear, in her new official capacity, at the forthcoming medals ceremony for the Special Olympics--a platform that Prejean supported in her bid for the title.
And Prejean has no desire for a run-in with the perky blonde wearing her old tiara.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Former Miss California Carrie Prejean Too Upset to Sleep Says Brother
Posted on Jun 12, 2009 @ 07:54PM - Add a comment
Regardless of what you think about former Miss California Carrie Prejean, one can’t help but wonder how her bumpy rollercoaster ride of fame has been affecting her beyond her continued poised TV appearances. RadarOnline.com spoke exclusively to her brother Billy to gain some insight into Prejean’s current personal hell.
Click on the video to find out more of Prejean’s dream turned nightmare
"My sister didn't deserve this!" Billy says. "She's very upset, not being able to sleep. She's beside herself."
"She doesn't understand why all this is happening. It just feels like a bad dream to her. I'm sure she'll make it through."
Earlier on Friday, pageant director Keith Lewis fought back against Prejean’s public denials that she failed to live up to her contract.
Click here to read his play-by-play of her reign.
Problems With Carrie Prejean Began Before Pageant Says Official
Posted on Jun 12, 2009 @ 04:54PM - Add a comment
Since she was fired from her post as Miss California, Carrie Prejean has been on the defensive, pegging much of her current woes on the controversial answer on gay marriage she gave during the Miss USA competition. But Keith Lewis, director of the Miss California organization, says their headaches with the beauty queen began long before she took the national stage.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump To Prejean: You're Fired!
Posted on Jun 10, 2009 @ 03:55PM - Add a comment
RadarOnline.com has exclusively obtained a statement from Donald Trump on the dismissal of Miss California USA Carrie Prejean.
“I told Carrie she needed to get back to work and honor her contract with the Miss California USA Organization and I gave her the opportunity to do so,” Trump says.
“Unfortunately it just doesn’t look like it is going to happen and I offered Keith [Lewis] my full support in making this decision. Carrie is a beautiful young woman and I wish her well as she pursues her other interests.”
California pageant director Lewis will name runner-up Tami Farrell the new queen "effective immediately."
(Photos: PR Photos/AP Images)
Meet The New, Fair And Balanced Carrie Prejean
Posted on May 14, 2009 @ 10:15PM - Add a comment
Miss California Carrie Prejean can't seem to keep herself out of hot water or follow pageant rules. On Thursday, it was announced that the beauty queen would be a one-time host talk show Fox and Friends- a decision not cleared by the Miss California USA pageant.
"We did not know about Carrie hosting Fox and Friends on May 27," pageant director Keith Lewis told RadarOnline.com. "She did not ask us if she could host the show and once again Carrie is not in compliance with her Miss CA USA contract and obligations." Prejean is supposed to clear her appearances with the organization per her contract.
As RadarOnline.com was the first to report, Prejean also skipped a scheduled appearance on Larry King Live on Thursday night.
(Photo: Wenn)
