Carrie Prejean is dropping her million-dollar discrimination lawsuit against Miss California USA after pageant officials reportedly confronted the dethroned beauty queen with a sex tape. Several gossip and adult entertainment sites claim to have seen Prejean’s sex video but passed on posting it because, as the gossip site TMZ says, it’s “too racy.” But given the pattern of so many other compromising celebrity videos, isn’t the Prejean sex tape destined to appear on the Internet anyway? (Watch celebrities react to Carrie Prejean's sex tape in a roundtable discussion.)
Give it to us, we’ll run it: This kind of aversion to salaciousness on TMZ's part is surprising, says Hamilton Nolan in Gawker, but “kudos” to the site “on its newfound virtue.” After all, TMZ has bought similar material in the past and posted it. That said, “if they don't want the tape, I reckon” Gawker will take it.
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