Each director had to sign an NDA before they were even allowed to see the new terms, which included a new clause stating Miss USA would receive 30% of the entry fee of every contestant in every ...

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 ...

Around the seven-minute mark of the video below, the Devil Wears Prada star spoke about the 1985 nude scandal that led her to resign as Miss America. Ten months after earning the crown in 1984 ...

Forty years ago Williams' world came crashing down following a nude photo scandal that ended her historic reign as the first Black Miss America. "There was a tremendous amount of onus, pressure ...

In 1970, a Black woman named Cheryl Brown won Miss Iowa and made it to Miss America as a contestant ... when she found herself embroiled in a scandal months before her reign was supposed to ...

Miss America was an official ambassador of the U.S., and therefore, until 1950, only white women were allowed to participate in the contest. The first Black contestant, Miss Iowa Cheryl Brown ...

Miss Universe contestant Italy Mora has been expelled from the renowned beauty pageant over a personal matter — with some accusing her of making an unauthorised visit to her boyfriend’s hotel ...

By B.D. McClay The oldest surviving former Miss America, she was among the first ... to lead the pageant through its own harassment scandal. The president, chief executive and board chairwoman ...

The Miss America Organization publicly apologized for its response to the scandal in 2015, with Chairman and CEO Sam Haskell III saying, “You have lived your life in grace and dignity and never ...