Williams, 21, has been the most heavily booked winner in pageant history and has already earned a record $125,000 in fees. "For 10 months Vanessa Williams has served the pageant and the title of Miss America well," said the statement released by pageant directors, "but we must make it clear that we cannot and do not condone her actions either in posing for the photographs or in failing to reveal the facts at the appropriate time in the selection process that led to her being awarded the crown." The issue, with a 10-page picture spread of Williams and another woman, will be on newsstands in August. ![]() He held up the cover of the September issue of Penthouse, which shows Williams with comedian George Burns. "We will cross that bridge when we come to it," he told reporters during a press conference yesterday. Marks refused to say what would happen if Williams refused to resign. "She said she was sorry and she was tearful to the point of hysterics," he said. said he expected Williams, the first black Miss America, to hold a press conference on Monday to announce her decision, adding that he thought she would resign. Pageant chairman and executive director Albert A. "We will give her 72 hours to give that request consideration." "We have today asked Miss Williams to relinquish her crown and the title of Miss America 1984," a press statement said. The pageant's executive committee voted unanimously for Williams' resignation. She is the first Miss America to be asked to resign in the pageant's 63-year history. ![]() Vanessa Williams, the reigning Miss America, was asked to relinquish her title yesterday by the directors of the pageant after they learned that Penthouse will publish sexually explicit, nude photographs of Williams and another woman in its September issue.
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