The actress, singer and former beauty queen opens up about finding decades of success after a difficult past in this week's cover story Vanessa Williams is living proof that your past doesn't define ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. So on the day after it was announced that entertainer Vanessa Williams will be the head judge of Sunday night’s Miss America Pageant after resigning as Miss America in 1984 amid a ...

Vanessa Williams is opening up about her past, present, and future in a new interview with People. The actress reflected on her 1984 Miss America win and 10-month reign, which was cut short when nude ...

Deadline reports that Sony Pictures have optioned the rights to her story with Neil Meron producing. Williams was the first woman of African-American descent to receive the MISS AMERICA title when she ...

Vanessa Williams reflected on her 40-year career in the latest cover of PEOPLE Magazine, including the nude photo scandal that almost derailed it all as it was ramping up. Williams was thrust into the ...

Williams was crowned Miss America 1984, but was forced to resign after scandal. — -- Vanessa Williams, the first African-American Miss America, will return to the Miss America pageant as a judge ...

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'm still ...

“Had there been an internet to break back then, it would have shattered to pieces,” Williams says. Vanessa Williams is opening up about her past, present, and future in a new interview with People.