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- 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 it would publish raunchy photos she had posed for two years earlier while working as a photographer’s assistant.
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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...
Sep 22, 2020 · It did make her by far the most famous Miss America that ever lived. Yet it also, paradoxically, allowed her to break free of Miss America. 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.
Sep 14, 2015 · Williams won the crown in 1983 and had the title for 10 months, until Penthouse magazine published nude photos of Williams that were taken before her reign.
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Jul 24, 2013 · Miss Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America, announced yesterday that she is resigning at the request of competition officials after the publication of nude photographs of her in Penthouse ...
She initially gained recognition as the first African American winner of the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 in September 1983. Several weeks before the end of her reign, however, a scandal arose when Penthouse magazine bought and published [2] [3] nude photographs of Williams.
Sep 14, 2015 · Mel Evans/AP. A new Miss America was crowned Sunday night in Atlantic City, N.J., but it was a moment with a Miss America from 32 years ago that stole the spotlight. Vanessa Williams became the...
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...
