Miss California Carrie Prejean has found herself disrobing her way through more controversy! Borrowing a page from the Rihanna School of Damage Control, Miss California Carrie Prejean is trying to get a web site to take down those semi-nude photos of her.
TMZ reported on Sunday that Prejean''s lawyer fired off a cease and desist letter to thedirty.com demanding that the site take down two photos of a topless Prejean posing for the camera.
It''s the same cease-and-desist threat that Rihanna''s lawyers filed Friday regarding several nude photos of a woman who looks a lot like the singer that hit the Internet last week. In Prejean''s letter, her lawyer writes, "One of the displayed images of Ms. Prejean was illegally taken under false pretenses when she was a 17-year-old minor and unable to consent to its creation." The letter goes on: "The other image depicts Ms. Prejean''s likeness but is not an actual photograph. It is an electronic manipulation ("photoshopped") of her image created without her consent."
Miss California USA pageant co-directors Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler will make a public case on Monday regarding Carrie Prejean''s future as titleholder after the 21-year-old appeared in advertisement campaigns for "opposite marriage" crusaders and pictures of a topless Prejean in her panties surfaced.
TMZ obtained 4 topless photos a week ago. Her rep contacted us and said Carrie''s position was that she was naive at the time she posed. Then we got a second email stating she was only 17. As a result we did not publish the photos. But the sponsor says he''s positive they were taken when Carrie was a full-grown adult. Prejean’s spokesperson told Access she “swears up and down” that she was 17 or under when the pictures were taken and that she was not wearing Victoria’s Secret.
Shortly after Victoria Secret’s initial confirmation, a rep for the company told Access, “without seeing the underwear in person, there is no way for me to confirm that these are in fact Victoria’s Secret underwear.” Prejean’s spokesperson also said the photos were shot by a friend or family member to be used in a portfolio. Her spokesperson told Access that Carrie directed the photo session and someone else actually shot them.
In addition, Prejean penned a handwritten note to Access, reiterating her age at the timem of the photograph.