![]() ![]() She’s now in rehearsals for The Trip to Bountiful, which opens Sept. ![]() Williams went on to receive three Emmy noms for her diva role on Ugly Betty. Williams’ chance for a career could have faded away, but as she once remarked, “Success is the best revenge.” She landed a part in 1987’s The Pick-Up Artist her 1988 album, The Right Stuff, earned her a Best New Artist Grammy nom and follow-up The Comfort Zone sold 2.2 million copies in the U.S. (The centerfold was 16-year-old Traci Lords since she was underage, it’s now illegal to own a copy unless her photos have been removed.) Penthouse‘s September 1984 issue with the photos achieved a single-issue sales record. “I just can’t imagine anything worse.” A $400 million lawsuit she filed against Penthouse and Chiapel was eventually dropped. “It’s easily the worst thing that’s ever happened to me,” she said in 1984. Williams was allowed to keep a $100,000 scholarship but lost about $2 million in endorsements. Williams was pressured into resigning and 1983 became the only year to have two Miss Americas: Williams for the first 10 months and then runner-up Suzette Charles. Traci lords penthouse nude 637X812 Jpeg image. She’d posed for the black-and-white pics with another woman while working as an assistant to photographer Tom Chiapel, who sold them to Penthouse. But Williams’ reign was interrupted when nude shots from the previous year surfaced. Her big pageant moment came when, as Miss New York, she sang “Happy Days Are Here Again,” her gray-blue eyes glistening. I have no idea of the delay between photos being taken and the magazine being released, but at the most, Lords was 16 yrs & 2 months at the photo shoot.In 1983, the 20-year-old Syracuse University student was the first African-American to win Miss America. Vanessa Williams resigned her Miss America crown in July of 1984, so the magazine had to have hit the newsstands in July or earlier. Since she made adult films for roughly 20 months, she couldn’t have been 17 in those photos. Remember, with the exception of Traci, I Love You, she was under 18 in every single adult film she made, and her adult film career started after being the centerflod in the best-selling issue of Penthouse ever. Her pictorial in Velvet apparently ran while she was still 15, as wikipedia says she dropped out of school because fellow students recognized her from it. ![]() So I can’t be more exact than “15 or 16” for how old she was. Thing is, I don’t know when the “September 1984” issue of Penthouse actually came out (I often get magazines dated “February” before Christmas, but sometimes get “August” near the end of September), and I don’t know how far in advance those pictures were taken. She started nude modeling in February, turned 16 in May, and made her first adult film in October. Well, wikipedia says she was born May 7 1968, and appeared in the September 1984 Penthouse. But yes, they were fooled by the same fake ID she used to first do porn (and fooled the US Govt with to get a passport)… I’m pretty sure Lords was 17 when the Penthouse pictorial was shot. These have been attacked at various times and places but I don’t recall any notable cases in recent years. For that matter, nudist publications abound and many have family pictures, almost the definition of non-sexualized nudes. Yet historic examples of mere nudes do exist without prosecution. Even without prosecution, distribution will be difficult. In most times and places, prosecution for nude images of under-18 models will be automatic and successful because sexualization is assumed. Check the laws in your area and, if in doubt, consult a legal expert. Remember that 18 is not always the minimum. But for the type of images that you see on this web site, it is best to play it safe. Think of images you have seen of babies, medical images, family photos, and the like. There is actually nothing automatically illegal about nude photographs of minors. Every site I do find has a disclaimer like this one:Ībove, I mentioned photographing and publishing nudes of someone who is 18 and the age of majority. I’ve been trying to find that tightened law of 1967 (if it exists) with no luck. This suggests that there are legal restrictions against using under-eighteen nude models. There’s obviously a market for people that would like to look at nude sixteen and seventeen year olds but nobody is trying to sell to it. If this is the case, then why do porn magazines go to such lengths to ensure their models are eighteen? If what you’re saying is correct, a magazine could openly sell pictures of women under eighteen as long as they’re not engaged in actual sex. ![]()
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