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Sep 22, 2020 · In 1984, Vanessa Williams was the reigning Miss America. Miss America isn't a big thing now, is barely a thing at all, but it certainly was when Williams, 20 at the time, a junior at Syracuse University, took the title on September 17, 1983.
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...
Oct 21, 2010 · PICTURES: Bob Guccione 1930-2010. The magazine, founded by Brooklyn-born Guccione, in the mid-1960s reached the peak of its popularity with that issue, selling nearly 6 million copies and...
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.
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.
Jul 23, 2015 · On this day, July 23, in 1984, then-21-year-old Williams handed over her crown — making her both the first black Miss America and the first to give up the title — after Penthouse announced that...
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Jul 13, 2014 · For it was nude pictures of Williams, taken two years prior to being crowned Miss America, that Penthouse announced it was publishing in its September 1984 issue, that caused 10 months in the...
