"A former teen pageant princess featured in a eye-brow raising episode in "Wife Swap" is getting charged with prostitution and drug possession." said MSN's news article

 

   The 21 year-old Alicia Guastaferro will be "pleading not guilty to her past charges of prostitution and drug possession,"  said Guastaferro's lawyer. She had told troopers that a man two years ago had found her in Niagara Falls bar tending and had made an offer to spend the night and sleep with him and he would pay her $500-$700 a month. According to documents, the charge of drugs were prescription medicine found in her purse that night.

   She had also received charges with initially lying to troopers about her name and age. Her appearance on a 2008 episode of ABC's "Wife Swap," recorded when she was 15, made her an instant target of ridicule at school and sent her into psychiatric care for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, an eating disorder and panic attacks.Guastaferro is known for saying things like "I do feel sorry for people that are not gorgeous people" and being spray-tanned by her father were staged and that she was told to "act a little more spoiled."

   "The lawsuit was settled last year, but the terms are not disclosed," commented Nathan Siegel, who represented the network.







sources (http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=765350&ocid=rr-tv-news)