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Black women speak out on
Vanessa Williams
Bob Guccione
“DID PENTHOUSE EXPLOIT FIRST BLACK MISS
AMERICA?” Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione (above)
responds to that charge and others when Host Tony Brown goes in
side Penthouse magazine for a revealing interview on the upcoming
edition of TONY BROWN’S JOURNAL. Also discussed is the
story behind a third set of photos that the magazine plans to
publish in its January issue showing the dethroned Miss America in
attitudes suggesting sado-masochism.
In its September 1984 issue, Pen
thouse magazine published a series
of nude photographs of the first
Black Miss America, Vanessa
Williams, in sexually explicit poses
with another woman.
After countless hours of
television hype and thousands of
newspaper articles, many Blacks
feel that the former Miss America
was the victim of racism and ex
ploitation by Penthouse Publisher
Bob Guccione.
What were the publisher’s
motives for printing the pictures?
Why hasn’t he been sued? Why
the latest pictures of Williams in an
S & M theme? Is all this a part of a
ploy to defame Black women?
Answers to these questions will
be presented on the next edition of
TONY BROWN’S JOURNAL as
Host Tony Brown goes inside Pen
thouse magazine to present a
revealing interview with Bob Guc
cione.
In addition to photographs that
appeared in the September and
November issues of Penthouse,
Publisher Guccione is publishing
more in the January issue. In that
issue, Vanessa Williams is shown
in attitudes suaeestine sado
masochisism, which were taken by
a second photographer.
Williams claims that she was
betrayed by the first photographer,
Tom Chiapel. While she admits to
signing a release for the new
January pictures, the ex-Miss
America stands by her contention
that she did not sign or does not
remember signing —a release for
Chiapel, the photographer who
sold the first set of photos to Guc
cione. Williams is suing Chiapel.
The program will be seen in this
area on WCES-20 at 7:30 p.m. on
Tues., 11/13.
A civil rights portfolio
From Page 4
The Black community may be
viewed as an under-developed
nation, without mineral resour
ces, contained within a highly
developed nation. Blacks should
learn from the Japanese who have
amassed great wealth with few
mineral resources. The Japanese
have been criticized for operating
like a corporation; “Japan, Inc.”.
Blacks might also function like
“Black America Inc.,” whereupon
everyone functions for the good of
the group and not for individual
glory.
The Japanese business leaders
appear to utilize the teachings of
the great Chinese war philosopher
Sun Tzu to defeat America’s cor
porate giant. They very carefully
study a new foreign market before
they move to take it. Sun Tzu
wrote, “Know the enemy and
know yourself; in a hundred bat
tles you will never be in peril.”
I get some sense for the psy
che of America’s corporate
management when I follow the en
ploits of such noted financiers
made nearly 60 million dollars
when he was apparently viewed as
a hostile suitor by Walt Disney
Production’s management. I feel
other companies may take
aggressive actions to prevent
hostile takeovers. Thus, it can be
said that avoiding a philosophical
shift may be a very expensive
proposition for many cor
porations.
I would like to offer the skeleton
of a Black civil rights plan for the
late 1980 s.
•Buy out existing small
businesses with good growth
potential that are cash starved.
This will reduce the potential of
heavy losses associated with trying
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Was Vanessa Wiliams the victim
of a conspiracy? Can posing nude
be a detriment to a model’s career?
What ethical responsibility, if any,
do Black models have to Black
people? These and other questions
are posed to a variety of models,
agency heads and experts on the
upcoming edition of TONY
BROWN’S JOURNAL.
Pat Evans, formerly one of New
York’s top models and now head
of her own agency, gives first hand
details about an alleged conspiracy
against Vanessa Williams.
io start up new ventures without
proven managements. It also of
fers the possibility of owning
tomorrow’s 1.8. M.
♦Purchase major blocks of stock
in various corporations with high
impact on setting trends in Cor
porate America. Blacks elevated
to these Boards of Directors will
speak from a position of owner
ship clout and can force shifts in
corporate policy.
♦Create a national Black in
vestment fund where Black chur
ches and individuals can pool their
monies such as building funds or
home purchase savings to finance
the new corporate thrust.
Seek investment interships under
such noted financiers as Saul P.
Steinberg, Victor Posner, and Ted
Turner. These persons could
unlock the secrets to corporate
empire building that may create a
Black owned Fortune 500 com
pany.
The Black leadership might find
that conservatives are very
amenable to their ideals if they are
presented from a basis of strength.
These leaders must not become too
blinded by the liberal’s doctrine
where they permit the Black com
munity to lament for years over
economic deprivation whilst they
remain recalcitrant to reality.
Sun Tzu left one statement that
the Black leadership should ponder
when they comtemplate emo
tional attacks upon conser
vatives in power. “A sovereign
cannot raise an army because he is
enraged, nor can a general fight
because he is resentful. For while
an angered man may again be hap
py, and a resentful man again be
pleased, a state that has perished
cannot be restored, nor can the
dead be brought back to life.”
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BLACK WOMEN SPEAK OUT ON VANESSA WILLIAMS
Michelle Wright (above) was a Miss America finalist, who like the
dethroned Vanessa Williams, posed nude in a men’s magazine. She
tells Tony Brown, “Vanessa and I are aiming towards the enter
tainment industry.” However, other Black models tell Brown that
they reject the idea of posing nude and feel that their obligation to
the Black community overrides their professional ambitious.
Also featured is Michelle
Wright, a 1980 Miss America
finalist and the first Black Miss
New Jersey. One month after Pen
thouse magazine published nude
pictures of Vanessa Williams, the
former Miss New Jersey appeared
nude in the October issue of
Gallery, another men’s magazine.
Wright told Tony Brown that
she has absolutely no regrets about
posing nude. “At this stage things
can come about and not damage a
person’s image,” she says. “You
can be intelligent and a
businesswoman and still do this
(pose in the nude) too. Vanessa
and I are aiming towards the enter
tainment industry.”
However, Dina McMillan, a
model for a top New York agency,
the Pat Evans Modeling Agency,
rejects the idea of posing nude and
feels that her obligation to the
community overrides her
professional ambitions. McMillan
relieves the terrifying nightmare of
a kidnapping by a phony agent.
McMillan’s real-life agent, Pat
Evans, says that these potentially
dangerous situations can be
prevented if a model follows
professional advice. The program
will be seen in this area on
WCES —20 at 7:30 p.m. on Tues.
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The Augusta News-Review November 10,1984
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