Donald Trump fires Miss USA

Hard-partying Miss USA Tara Conner was booted out of her ritzy Trump Place apartment and fled the Big Apple to her tiny Kentucky hometown with her reputation in shambles, as reports swirled yesterday that her runner-up had already been tapped to replace her.

"She does not live here anymore," said a doorman at the posh Upper West Side property, where the Miss USA winner is given an apartment every year. "She is not allowed any where on Trump property. She is certainly not allowed to come back. I don't think it was her choice, really."

Miss USA pageant boss Donald Trump said pageant officials were continuing to "study the situation," and wouldn't make an announcement until next Tuesday. But gossip Web site TMZ.com reported that Conner's runner-up, Miss California Tamiko Nash had been told to prepare to take the coveted Miss USA 2006 tiara.

A source said pageant officials had requested that Conner submit to testing for recreational drugs.

Conner returned to her hometown of Russell Springs, Ky. (population 2,399), sources said. The phones rang unanswered at both her mother and father's homes. A woman who answered the phone at her aunt's home declined to comment.

As word spread of Conner's presumed fall from grace, tales of her being blinded by the bright lights of the Big Apple and succumbing to wild escapades of clubbing, sex and drug abuse emerged.

"She has a really bad drug problem. Everyone at Miss USA hated her. She slept with [Blink 182's] Travis Barker and she sleeps with all the club promoters," said one source.

She has also been linked romantically to two of the owners of the club Stereo, MTV veejay Damien Fahey, American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, and DJ AM's assistant.

"She was latching onto a crew of promoters because she had no other friends and she was using them for drugs," a friend said. "She started utilizing hip New York City people in the night-life scene to feed her addictions."

"I cut her off when she started leeching off all the other people I introduced her to."

Two other sources said Conner had a reputation for lewd behavior in club bathrooms.

"She always went the extra mile," said one pal.

There were also indications that the small-town Kentucky girl's "alarming behavior" predated her taking the Miss USA throne. A friend said that back home in the hills of Kentucky, Conner also had a taste for recreational drugs.

"She always partied. She's had deep-rooted difficulties," the friend said.

Ironically, during the competition for the Miss USA crown in April, Conner said she thought the behavior of today's pop idols like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears had gotten too over the top.

"I think they are getting a little bit too much edgy [sic]. I think that they are a little bit too much risqué," she said. "I think they need to tone it down a bit."

One friend said Conner had a very competitive personality that drove her toward the Miss USA title - but wasn't so interested in being the pageant queen, and often complained about what was required of her.

"She always complained how it was a pain in the ass to wake up in the morning and she had to get crazy s - - - done to her teeth," the friend said. "The girl can wake up in the morning and flip a switch and change into Miss USA. Honestly, she's kind of like Lindsay Lohan."