Dethroned Miss North Carolina USA Brittany Boltinhouse files defamation lawsuit, accuses pageant of cover-up

Dethroned Miss North Carolina USA winner Brittany Boltinhouse has filed a defamation lawsuit after being stripped of her title – where she accused pageant bosses of covering up the reason why her crown was removed.Her lawyers have accused A-Blaize Productions — the pageant producers — and Miss USA president Thom Brodeur of “maliciously coordinating to publish a false public narrative portraying [her] as a racist, homophobe, and intolerable bigot to be shunned from public life,” according to a lawsuit, which was filed on Sunday and seen by The Post.The lawsuit was filed on the eve of Miss USA, which kicks off in Miami, Florida, on Monday.Boltinhouse, 27, was dethroned on Aug.5, around five weeks after clinching the Miss North Carolina USA crown, and it came following an expose, which unearthed social media posts from 2017-19 containing the N-word.But the lawsuit claims her social media posts only became an issue after Boltinhouse, whose parents are Hispanic, had clinched the title. “Nearly a decade later… when Brittany’s immigrant inspired work ethic was propelling her to the American dream, [the pageant organizers] would conspire to use these innocuous posts and their self-evident ubiquitous use of the popular slang term ‘n—a’ to falsely smear Brittany as a racist, homophobe, transphobe, and bigot,” they said.“[Pageant organizers] hid from the public the real reason they dethroned Brittany: she is a conservative Christian.”Boltinhouse previously claimed she was dethroned over her political beliefs – allegations which she has doubled down on in the lawsuit. She attended President Trump’s speech on the National Mall on Jan.

6 2021, expressed support for Andrew and Tristan Tate, publicized her objections to former President Biden’s “Transgender Day of Visibility” proclamation in 2024, and issued a rallying cry to vote for Trump on the eve of the November 2024 election.Her lawyers claimed they used her conservative beliefs to “...