carriepre1021.jpg Miss California USA officials want Carrie Prejean to pay back the $5,200 they say she borrowed to have her breasts enhanced last year. This demand is in response to a lawsuit filed by the Miss USA runner-up in which she accuses pageant officials of violating her privacy by telling the press that her boobs were fake.

Prejean's lawyer Charles LiMandri said, "They have proven, once again, that they will use whatever scurrilous accusations they can dredge up - or invent - to try and tarnish Carrie's reputation and her good name." LiMandri added that the pageant filing was part of an "ongoing smear campaign" against her.

State pageant officials beg to differ, and they counter that the truth about Carrie's breasts "ceased being private during the swimsuit competition of the nationally televised Miss USA pageant, in which [she] walked the stage in a bikini." Well, they certainly have a point! It was pretty damn obvious to us that the chest we saw on TV wasn't the one God gave her!

State pageant officials say they loaned Carrie the money for the surgery under an oral agreement that she would repay them, and she never did. "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 filing said. "She felt that if she had the surgery, in her opinion, she would be more competitive for the Miss USA pageant." After pageant officials agreed to loan her the money, Prejean underwent breast augmentation in January.

The group also asked a judge to give them all of the profits from Carrie's tell-all book, which they claim was written in violation of her pageant contract. Miss California USA Executive Director Keith Lewis said, "Our claim is not about financial reward, and all profits awarded will be donated to a charity that promotes the values of our organization."

Don't mess with the folks at Miss USA!