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About two months before the end of her reign, Williams received word that nude photos of her were going to be published in Penthouse. She had no control over the photos, had given no consent to the magazine to run them, but apparently that wasn’t going to stop them.
Among the most famous was the 1984 issue which included nude photos of Vanessa Williams during her reign as the first black Miss America. She was forced to give up her crown in the fuor that ...
To win that pageant was to lose your identity. You were no longer you; you were Miss America. But because of Penthouse, the entire country, the entire world, knew who Vanessa Williams was.
That was far from the case in 1984, when Vanessa Williams resigned as Miss America after Penthouse magazine published nude photos of her that had been taken before her 10-month reign.
However, shortly after being crowned Miss America in 1984, the model and mom of four learned those photos had been sold to Penthouse magazine. Reflecting on the challenging moment in time,...
Vanessa Williams, the first African-American to win the title Miss America, also became the first in the pageant’s 63-year history to resign the crown after news broke that nude photos of her...
Vanessa Williams, Miss America 1984, gave up her crown yesterday at the request of pageant officials in a scandal over nude, sexually explicit photographs of her that appeared in Penthouse...
