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Monday, September 14, 2015

Vanessa Williams gets Miss America apology -- 32 years after she was stripped of her title

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Actress and singer Vanessa Williams returned to the Miss America stage Sunday night, three decades after she became the first black woman to win the crown but resigned following a nude photo scandal.
The Miss America pageant offered a formal apology to Vanessa Williams,...
Vanessa Williams gets Miss America apology -- 32 years after she was stripped of her title

Vanessa Williams gets public apology from Miss America 32 years after she was stripped of title

Executive Chairman and CEO for Miss America Sam Haskell III and Vanessa Williams onstage during the 2016 Miss America Competition at Boardwalk Hall Arena on September 13, 2015 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Getty Images)
Thirty two years after actress and singer Vanessa Williams was forced to...
Vanessa Williams gets public apology from Miss America 32 years after she was stripped of title

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Stunning at 52: See photos from Vanessa Williams" wedding

Vanessa Williams married Jim Skrip on Saturday, July 4, and the actress did it in high style.

52-year-old Vanessa Williams who tied the knot with her partner of 3 years Jim Skrip, also 52, on Saturday in front of family and close friends in Buffalo, New York surprised everyone, including her husband, by wearing 2 gorgeous gowns during the intimate ceremony.

‘I felt like an Egyptian goddess, and that was exactly the theme I was going for,’ she said.

The actress and singer confirmed her engagement during a September 2014 appearance on The Queen Latifah Show, when she showed off her gorgeous diamond ring, and revealed that Skrip had proposed just a few weeks prior.

After walking up the aisle at St Stanislaus Roman Catholic church radiant in white, she changed into an intricate golden dress for the exchanging of the vows.

Vanessa’s daughters, Melanie, 28, Jillian, 26 and Sasha, 15, all served as beautiful bridesmaids in off-white gowns, Her Mum was also at the wedding.

Her 3 children

Vanessa Williams marries boyfriend Jim Skrip

Vanessa Williams and her fiancé Jim Skrip got married Saturday evening, the actress’ rep confirmed to E! News. 52 year old Vanessa Williams and her fiancé of 3 years, Jim Skrip, got married Saturday evening.

Family and friends were in attendance to watch the couple tie the knot before fireworks rang nearby. Just a few days before the ceremony, Williams teased her social media followers that she was going on a “road trip” for the holiday weekend. Now we all know what she meant.

The “Ugly Betty” star and Grammy-nominated singer announced her engagement in September on “The Queen Latifah Show.”

“You never know what you’ll find and where you’ll find it,” she said. “I was on vacation with my daughter going to Egypt, cruising on the Nile. I wasn’t looking for anything. I’d been alone for a number of years and divorced for 10 years at that time.”

“I got engaged. I have had a lot of good things happen while I’ve been on this lovely trip,” she revealed to Queen Latifah. “I turned 50 when we were in rehearsal on Broadway, I just got engaged a couple of weeks ago…It has been a lot of blessings on this trip.”

The couple met on a Nile cruise in 2013. Williams, whose mother is from Buffalo, approached Skrip because he was a wearing a Buffalo Sabres shirt,she said.

She asked him if he was from there, and the two hit it off.

This is the third marriage for Williams. She has four children with exes Ramon Hervey II and basketball player Rick Fox.

Fox and Williams divorced in 2004.

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Vanessa Williams marries boyfriend Jim Skrip