Dethroned Miss California Carrie Prejean is suing K2 Productions which owns the Miss California USA franchise for defamation and religious discrimination over her support for man-woman marriage. Hollywood blog sites Big Hollywood and TMZ.com both report that Prejean filed court papers on Monday with the Los Angeles County Superior Court accusing K2 Productions officials, Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler, and publicist Roger Neal, of engaging in character defamation, religious discrimination, public disclosure of private facts, as well as both intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, Lifesite News says.
Prejean's lawyer, Charles S. LiMandri, told Big Hollywood in a statement: "Over the past two months we have worked hard to provide overwhelming evidence that Carrie Prejean did not violate her contract with Miss California USA and did not deserve to have her title revoked by Keith Lewis.
"We will make the case that her title was taken from her solely because of her support of traditional marriage. Keith Lewis has refused to clear her good name or even to admit any wrongdoing. Therefore, Carrie Prejean is left with no alternative but to take her case to court where she expects to be fully vindicated."
According to TMZ, the suit alleges that Lewis, the executive director of K2 Productions, and Shanna Moakler, the former Miss California pageant director, both conspired to have Prejean removed from her title as Miss California after Prejean publicly reaffirmed her belief that marriage was the union of a man and a woman.
Lewis and Moakler swiftly joined in public denunciation of Prejean's answer after the Miss USA pageant.
Prejean's lawsuit alleges that Lewis and Moakler "fabricated a fraudulent list of some 50 public appearances allegedly missed by Prejean which they released to the media in order to justify her termination as Miss California USA."
Lewis, however, has charged that Prejean was dismissed on legitimate breaches of contract and not for her views on same-sex "marriage." He maintains that Prejean is engaging in a publicity stunt by claiming that K2 Productions had persecuted her over her stance on marriage.
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