Style The competition for Miss America 1984 was business as usual — until everyone got a look at Vanessa Williams August 23, 2021 More than 3 years ago Summary ...

Syracuse University alumna Vanessa Williams didn't need an apology from the Miss America Organization, according to the woman who took Williams' title in 1984. Suzette Charles, who was crowned ...

Miss America tracks the contest from its inception in 1921 as an exuberant local seaside pageant to its heyday as one of the most popular and anticipated events in the country's cultural calendar ...

The talented Suzette Charles, Miss America 1984, has added another item to her already long list of talents: activist. Suzette has been leading the charge of former Miss Americas who are fighting ...

The 1983 Miss America, Debra Maffett, for example, competed in “13 or 14” regional contests around California for several years before winning the state and national pageants, according to Major.

Miss America chair apologizes to Vanessa Williams for 1984 nude photo controversy Actress and singer Vanessa Williams sings during in the 2016 Miss America pageant, Sunday in Atlantic City, N.J.

In this Sept. 17, 1983 file photo, Miss New York Vanessa Williams is crowned Miss America 1984 at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, N.J. The Miss America Organization, Dick Clark ...

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 ...

Before crowning Miss America 2016, the Miss America pageant welcomed back and apologized to Miss America 1984, Vanessa Williams, whose crown had been stripped near the end of her reign after ...

Copies of September’s Penthouse magazine carrying nude photographs of Vanessa Williams, who resigned yesterday as Miss America of 1984, were selling at a brisk pace in the Lehigh Valley yeste… ...

Vanessa Williams received apologies from Miss America officials for the pageant's handling of her Penthouse magazine scandal 31 years ago, which led to her 1984 resignation.