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By Nellie Andreeva.

Because my mind is in the past the mid-eighties and in the gutter the porn biz for reasons that will become clear, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the September issue of Penthouse. How to convey the magnitude of the frenzy? Maybe this does it. Peter Bloch, Penthouse 's then-executive editor: "It was the best-selling issue of Penthouse of all time. Hands down. A complete sellout in, like, two days. You couldn't get a copy.

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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 magazine. But she added: "It would be difficult for me to appear as Miss America" since the photographs, showing her in a lesbian embrace with an unknown white woman were published in the magazine. She had been enraged after seeing the photographs. She insisted that the only piece of paper she could recall signing in connection with the photographs was an application to work as a model, and not a release allowing sale of the photos. The case highlights the sexual and racial neuroses which are part of contemporary American society. As the first black Miss America, in a competition which historically favoured white women, Miss Williams, aged 21, has been one of the most sought after title holders in the competition's history. She has been described as a Renaissance woman who broke a colour bar through her beauty, intelligence, and performing skills.

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Williams originally made history on September 17, , when she became the first Black woman to win the Miss America crown. She attended Syracuse University and studied musical theater. In , while working a summer job as a receptionist at a modeling agency in Mt.

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But, thanks to a fake ID that was all too real, the magazine believed that she was Seventy-two hours later, practically to the minute, Williams became a Miss America first for a second time when she resigned. Close the menu deadline-logo-svg. I'd met his wife and kids. It's also a podcast. Courtesy of the author. The backstory to the cover story. And, yeah, OK, sure, those second-wave feminists, the ones who called it a "degrading Mindless-Boob-Girlie Symbol," did kind of have a point. Bloch again: "The paperwork was in order, the photo ID was there, so everyone calmed down. In July , the very same month she abandoned her suit against the magazine, it was revealed that the most famous adult actress in the world, Traci Lords, had been underage for nearly her entire career. Peter Bloch, Penthouse 's then-executive editor: "It was the best-selling issue of Penthouse of all time. A queen was dethroned because of the issue. And while he may well have sent Chiapel packing out of deference to Williams, he had another reason.

Vanessa Williams made history in by becoming the first Black woman to be crowned Miss America. However, her groundbreaking achievement was soon overshadowed by a scandal involving Penthouse magazine publishing unauthorized nude photos of Williams, leading to her resignation.

She sued him—or, rather, his magazine—instead. Or that his pageant's insistence on contestants looking like sex symbols but acting like virgins only women who had never been married or pregnant were eligible was the very definition of hypocrisy. Getty Traci Lords. Because my mind is in the past the mid-eighties and in the gutter the porn biz for reasons that will become clear, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the September issue of Penthouse. Inside My Mid-Life Crisis. One day, Chiapel asked her to model for him. Close the menu deadline-logo-svg. Unflappable, Albert Marks, appeared on camera, waving around a Penthouse and demanding that Williams resign within seventy-two hours. Or this. You couldn't get a copy. To equate morality with nudity is unrealistic in this day and age. Now it needed her. To win that pageant was to lose your identity. He paid me on time and was respectful.