Miss Cali Snags Fox News Gig

Executive director resigns a day after decision

(NEWSER) - Shanna Moakler has resigned as executive director of the Miss California USA pageant, she tells Us magazine a day after Carrie Prejean was allowed to keep her crown and Donald Trump promised all was well in pageant-land. “I cannot with a clear conscious move forward supporting and promoting the Miss Universe Organization when I no longer believe in it,” Moakler said. More»

(AP) - Officials of the Miss California USA pageant have strongly criticized titleholder Carrie Prejean, but said today it's not their decision whether she should be stripped of her crown. Co-executive directors Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler told a Beverly Hills press conference that only Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump can make that decision. More»

Pageant co-director is still no fan of dethroned Miss California

(NEWSER) - Miss USA co-director Shanna Moakler may have had her problems with Carrie Prejean in the past, but now she hopes Prejean and her live-in fiancé have many beautiful children…gay children. Moakler, who resigned from the pageant for a while due to Prejean's gay-marriage drama, tells TMZ , “I hope Carrie has the most beautiful, glorious gay children. She’s actually not good enough to have such fantastic gay children.” More»

Yes, the Donald has a special rule for it and everything

(NEWSER) - In her new book, Carrie Prejean claims Donald Trump weeds less-than-attractive girls out of the Miss USA pageant, and TMZ says she’s right. In an audio tape from the 2009 pre-show screening, the Donald executes “The Trump Rule,” which declares that almost half of the women who advance are selected—based on looks, naturally—by he and his staff, because before he bought the pageant, “the most beautiful people were never chosen,” he says. More»

Claims 'lost earnings,' even though she got a book deal...

(NEWSER) - The Miss California drama isn’t over yet: dethroned Carrie Prejean is filing a lawsuit against the organization, reports Perez Hilton, who snagged a copy of the complaint. Prejean names Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler, but not Donald Trump, as defendants in her suit for—among other things—slander, libel, and religious discrimination. Lawyers for both sides are in talks to handle the matter through mediation, sources say. More»