When Miss USA Tara Conner tearfully acknowledged partying in New York bars, she was given a second chance to keep her crown. But there apparently will be no second chance for Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees. She was stripped of her title Thursday after racy photos of her appeared on the Internet, pageant officials said. Some photos show Rees, 22, kissing other young women, exposing one of her breasts and pulling down her pants to show her thong underwear at a party in Tampa, Fla.
"Katie Rees has been relieved of her duties as Miss Nevada USA 2007,"
said Paula M. Shugart, president of the Miss Universe Organization, which owns the Miss USA pageant and others.
Pageant co-owner Donald Trump said he 
had been put off by the photos.
"I saw some horrendous pictures," Trump told the New York Post. "I'm not shy when it comes to pictures, and these pictures were far beyond the scope of what she should be doing - there was no question."
Rees' dismissal comes two days after Conner was allowed to keep her tiara when she agreed to go into alcohol rehab, and a day after an anti-drunken driving group cut its ties with the hard-partying Miss Teen USA Katie Blair.
Pageant officials declined to provide a telephone number for Rees and said they didn't know when the photos of her were taken.
Rees' attorney, Mario Torres, of Tampa, defended the blond beauty queen in a statement sent to the entertainment television show "Extra."
"Katie Rees Miss Nevada USA wants the public to know she was 17 and had a lapse in judgment," he said. "The actions on that evening in subject are in no way indicative of the person she is or the person she has become ... she is a law-abiding citizen and talented adult. This was an isolated incident that occurred more than five years ago when she was a minor."
Shugart made the decision to jettison Rees, and Trump supported it, said Miss Universe Organization spokeswoman Lark-Marie Anton. Trump co-owns Miss Universe with NBC.
Rees has appeared as Miss Nevada USA at charity events such as the Goodie Two Shoe Giveaway, at which underprivileged students received free shoes, backpacks and school supplies.
Shugart said first runner-up Helen Salas will assume the title and compete at the next Miss USA pageant on March 23 in Los Angeles.
Trump gave Conner, 21, a reprieve after meeting with her Tuesday. Trump said Conner, who agreed to undergo drug testing, was a good person and deserved to keep her title.
"I think Tara is going to be the great comeback kid," Trump said.
In another beauty pageant brouhaha, Mothers Against Drunk Driving said Wednesday it was ditching Blair because it was "disappointed" by news reports that the 18-year-old from Billings, Mont., had been spotted partying with Conner in New York clubs.