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Sep 22, 2020 · Bob Guccione, the founder, editor, and publisher of Penthouse. Photo by Getty Images. On July 20, 1984, Mr. Unflappable, Albert Marks, appeared on camera, waving around a Penthouse and demanding that Williams resign within seventy-two hours.
Oct 21, 2010 · Among the most famous was the 1984 issue which included nude photos of Vanessa Williams during her reign as the first black Miss America.
4 days ago · Williams was crowned Miss America 1984 the previous September, becoming the first Black woman to ever claim the title. The next July, however, scandal rocked her world when she learned Penthouse ...
3 days ago · Then, 10 months into her reign, Puritanical nonsense temporarily derailed her career. On July 13, 1984, she was stunned to learn — in the middle of an interview — that Penthouse magazine was going to release nude photos of her. Williams said her knee-jerk reaction was to call her parents.
4 days ago · Vanessa Williams opens up in this week’s cover story about finding decades of success 40 years after her Miss America crown was stripped away following a nude photo scandal.
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Aug 24, 1984 · NEW YORK -- Vanessa Williams, who relinquished her Miss America crown when Penthouse magazine published sexually explicit photos of her, also had posed nude for another photographer, a Penthouse...
4 days ago · Williams’ treatment, or rather mistreatment, at the hands of the Miss America organization as well as by Penthouse and its lecherous founder Bob Guccione — who published nude photos of ...
Apr 10, 2024 · 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.
Sep 28, 2022 · Weeks before completing her reign, she was forced to resign her title under pressure from the organization when controversy ensued after nude photos of her taken prior to her Miss America win...
Sep 14, 2015 · Vanessa Williams stepped down in 1984 as the first black Miss America after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine. She went on to have a successful singing and acting career and...
