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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...
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. Penthouse.
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...
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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.
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Sep 28, 2022 · September 28, 2022 10:12am. Vanessa Williams, Neil Meron Abeiku Arthur/NBC/Benjo Arwas. EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Williams ‘ personal story about the scandal that forced her to resign her Miss...
Jul 23, 2015 · The pageant’s organizers were aghast at the images, which appeared in Penthouse ’s September 1984 issue with the headline, “Miss America: Oh, God, She’s Nude!” The magazine’s publisher had...
