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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.
Sep 22, 2020 · Williams had already been through the wringer and then some by the time she found out, in mid-July 1984, via a New York Post reporter, that she was about to become Penthouse 's cover girl, an honor she neither asked for nor wanted.
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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...
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.
Aug 24, 1984 · Vanessa Williams, who relinquished her title of Miss America last month after sexually explicit photographs of her with another woman appeared in Penthouse magazine, said yesterday that she had...
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Jul 28, 1984 · -- The woman pictured with Vanessa Williams in sexually explicit pictures in the September issue of Penthouse was identified by a newspaper Saturday as Ami Gier Wessell of Boulder, Colo.
Jul 31, 1984 · BOULDER, Colo., July 30, 1984 -- The woman who posed nude with former Miss America Vanessa Williams did not authorize release of the photographs and "was shocked and dismayed" when they were...
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Jul 24, 1984 · Miss Williams, the first black Miss America, stepped down Monday under pressure from pageant officials after the sexually explicit photos of her and another woman were printed in Penthouse.
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...
Nov 24, 2009 · On July 23, 1984, 21-year-old Vanessa Williams gives up her Miss America title, the first resignation in the pageant’s history, after Penthouse magazine announces plans to publish nude photos...
