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Has disgraced Miss USA–gone–wild Tara Conner—who entered rehab to curb her crazy ways, including cocaine use, underage drinking, and kissing Miss Teen USA Katie Blair in public—completely given up her partying ways? Not entirely, according to her Puerto Rican roommate, Miss Universe Zuleyka Rivera. “We still party, yeah. Sometimes. We’re just trying to be careful about what we do,” she said at the benefit gala for amfar. Besides, pageant owner Donald Trump “trusts us,” Rivera says. “If I like to go party, like a young girl do, I do it. Why not? I can’t drink—I’m 19. At least not in the United States. But in Puerto Rico I can.” But a pageant flack says Conner—who just turned 21—and Rivera have kept a low profile since Conner’s stint in rehab. “I can tell you for a fact that Tara has not gone out. She’s constantly saying she has never had a legal drink.”

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