News: Dethroned "Old" Beauty Queen Sues Organization

A beauty pageant winner Amanda Longacre who was stripped of her Miss Delaware crown for being a few months too old is suing the Miss America organization, saying officials knew her age and disqualified her unfairly. The lawsuit filed in Delaware’s Court of Chancery by Amanda Longacre seeks $3 million in damages and her reinstatement as Miss Delaware so she can compete in the Miss America pageant in September. Rules for the pageant require that Miss Delaware contestants be no older than 24, and say they cannot turn 25 before the end of the year. Longacre’s 25th birthday will be on Oct. 22. She said she did nothing wrong and was honest when she applied to take part in the pageant, providing her birth certificate, driver’s license and other document Longacre won the title on June 14, but was replaced in late June by the first runner-up, 23-year-old Brittany Lewis of Wilmington, Delaware.