Carrie Prejean and Miss California USA Call a Truce

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Carrie Prejean and Miss California USA Call a Truce

Tue., Nov. 3, 2009 1:59 PM PST by Breanne L. Heldman

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Let's be honest—both Carrie Prejean and the Miss California pageant belong in a ballroom rather than a courthouse.

So it stands to reason that the battling beauty peeps managed to settle their differences out of court. Terms of the settement were not disclosed but all parties seemed happy about it.

"Carrie Prejean, [pageant director] Keith Lewis, and K2 productions [the independent pageant producers] have dropped their claim against each other and wish each other the best in their future endeavors," according to the official settlement statement.

In other words, the smackdown that began with a roar, ended with a whimper...

In case you've forgotten, the fallen beauty queen sued the pageant organization, including the co-directors Lewis and Shanna Moakler, for slander, libel, religious discrimination, public disclosure of private facts and infliction of emotional distress stemming from public and media reaction to the antigay marriage position she took before she was named runner-up at this year's Miss USA pageant.

The group, part of the Miss Universe organization run by Donald Trump, then countersued requesting that she return the $5,200 it gave her for breast-augmentation surgery.

Thankfully, all that busty back and forth is finished.

"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 Nov. 22," Lewis, executive director of the pageant, said in a statement.

Are you as happy to give this suit the old elbow, elbow, wrist, wrist as we are?

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