Breasts, Lawsuit of the Day

Lawsuit of the Day: Miss California's Breasts Are Entered into Evidence

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The legal issues swirling around the Miss California pageant are as messy and troubling as the state’s budget problems. Carrie Prejean was crowned Miss California 2009, and was first runner up in Donald Trump’s Miss USA 2009 contest. But her beauty has not been able to distract from controversy.
Topless photos of her emerged on the Internet. She told Miss USA celebrity judge Perez Hilton that she didn’t believe in same-sex marriage during the contest in April. And pageant officials dethroned her in June, giving the Miss California crown to the 2009 runner-up.
Prejean sued the Miss California USA organization in August. She has accused them of religious discrimination — claiming they fired her because of her beliefs about same-sex marriage — and invasion of privacy — for revealing to reporters that her breasts were fake.
Now the organization is firing back with a countersuit, reports CNN. The organization lent Prejean $5,200 for her breast enhancement, and they want their money back. They also deny invading her privacy:

The truth about Prejean’s breasts “ceased being private during the swimsuit competition of the nationally televised Miss USA pageant, in which Ms. Prejean walked the stage in a bikini,” pageant lawyers said.

We present exhibit A — before and after photos — after the jump.


After winning the Miss California crown, Prejean and the organization agreed that she needed bigger boobies to compete nationally. The organization lent her enhancement money and she underwent surgery in January. Here’s Prejean in a bathing suit before and after surgery. Do you think the enhancement of her private parts was still reasonably private?

Prejean has a tell-all book coming out next month. Maybe she’s mad that the pageant runners spilled the beans about her boobs before she could do it herself?
In its countersuit, the Miss California organization wants more than the cost of Prejean’s boob job. They’ve also asked for the profits from Prejean’s book, claiming that the book was written in violation of her pageant contract. More from CNN:

The pageant’s counter-complaint said Prejean’s belligerent behavior, lack of cooperation and contract breaches caused her firing, not her opposition to same-sex marriage.
“Ethically and morally, Carrie Prejean no longer deserved to be Miss California USA,” the pageant filing said.
“She attempts to cast herself as a virtuous young woman and the victim in a supposed conspiracy against her,” the pageant suit said. “Had she 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 — which will ultimately reveal the hypocrisy of Carrie Prejean.”

Amen?
Miss California USA sued over breast implant money [CNN]
Perez Hilton vs. Miss California [The Week]

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