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Sep 17, 2023 · Miss New York Vanessa Williams was crowned the winner of the 57th Miss America Pageant on Sept. 17, 1983. -- ... she was forced to resign her Miss America title. Williams, only 21 at the time ...
Aug 29, 2023 · Vanessa Williams felt pressured by Miss America Pageant officials to resign in 1984 because nude photos taken by a photographer prior to the pageant had surfaced, and Penthouse had announced that ...
Sep 17, 2013 · Sep 17, 2013. Thirty years ago today, Vanessa Williams was crowned Miss America, making her the first African-American to win the title. The singer/actress was still attending Syracuse University ...
Jul 23, 2021 · 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. The photographer had assured her ...
Sep 17, 2013 · Vanessa Williams, representing New York State, is shown during her coronation walk holding the scepter after she is crowned Miss America 1984 at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, N.J., on Sept. 17, 1983. Williams, of Syracuse, is the first African American to win the competition. (AP Photo/Jack Kanthal)
Sep 14, 2015 · Sep 14, 2015. Three decades after a scandal forced her to give back her crown, Vanessa Williams finally received her pageant redemption. The actress and singer returned to Miss America Sunday ...
Season 4 Episode 407Aired on 07/13/2014 | CC tv-14. Before Vanessa Williams dreamed of becoming Miss America, a photographer asked whether he could take nude photos of her and another woman. Vanessa says she believed him when he said no one would ever see the pictures. After she was crowned, the photos surfaced in Penthouse magazine, and ...
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