The legal battle between former Miss California Carrie Prejean and USA pageant officials ended Tuesday with a mutual agreement to drop all claims, according to CNN.
Team Donald Trump and pageant officials dropped their lawsuit filed last month demanding that the beauty queen repay $5,200 given her for breast implants.
In exchange, Prejean withdrew her suit accusing the pageant of violating her privacy by confirming to reporters that her breasts were not real.
The public fight began last April when Prejean, 22, stepped into controversy by declaring her opposition to same-sex marriage while answering judge Perez Hilton's question at the Miss USA pageant. Prejean finished as first runner-up.
Prejean proceeded to make public statements about same-sex marriage and slowly her image began to fade as public opinion became even lower. She was dethroned in June by Trump, the owner of the Miss USA pageant.
"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," pageant Executive Director Keith Lewis said in a written statement.
California pageant officials say they loaned the money for the breast surgery under an oral agreement with Prejean and she never repaid them.
"Ms. Prejean disclosed that she had been thinking about and wanting to have breast augmentation surgery for some time, but did not have the money to pay for it," the pageant filing said. "She felt that if she had the surgery, in her opinion, she would be more competitive for the Miss USA pageant." |
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