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Vanessa Williams | Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvis—ABC News, April 27, 2016. Post–Miss America 1984 "How Vanessa Williams Endured Her Miss America Scandal"—Oprah's Master Class, Season 4, Episode 7, July 13, 2014. ""Vanessa Williams Reflects on Becoming the First Black Miss America" – Oprah's Master Class, Season 4, Episode 7, July 13, 2014.
Forty years after a nude photo scandal forced Vanessa Williams to relinquish her Miss America crown, she can look back on the experience with some perspective and pride. "I'm still here and I'm ...
Vanessa Lynn Williams was born in Tarrytown, New York with a birth announcement that read: "Here she is: Miss America". [2] [3] She was raised in Millwood, New York. [1]A paternal great-great-grandfather was William Fields, an African-American legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
The scandal dominated the news cycle for weeks and hurt Williams’ image and career at the time. “There was a tremendous amount of onus, pressure, shame, judgment,” she says about the scandal.
Miss America 1983, Debra Maffett (Miss California 1982) crowned her successor, Miss New York 1983, Vanessa Williams of Millwood, New York at the end of the nationally televised event. In July 1984, Williams was forced to resign over the unauthorized publication of nude photographs and was succeeded by first runner-up, Miss New Jersey Suzette ...
NEW YORK – Vanessa Williams continues to conquer new frontiers. Williams became the first Black Miss America at the pageant in 1984. She then navigated a media controversy surrounding ...
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Controversial Beauty pageant contestants and winners who have achieved great notoriety and press due to incidents, scandal, or other negative press coverage. Pages in category "Beauty pageant controversies"