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From: kovalsky@trwspp.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Miss America Update
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 18:39:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 26 18:39:57 1984
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[Guccione's lawyer]
>               "The fact is that this is a girl who has been
>                pretending she's Little Miss Muffet for the
>                last year and the fact is that before she won
>                the title she wasn't.  The public ought to
>                know that."
[Guccione]
>               "She should remember, and I'm sure in her heart
>                she does remember, that she signed the release.
>                It's not the sort of thing a girl does every day.
>                I don't feel I'm responsible.  My obligation was
>                to my readers.  This was an interesting bit of
>                highly newsworthy information and photographs.
>                I think it's a mistake that she elected not to
>                fight to keep her crown.  I think the pageant
>                is getting away with something, which I think is
>                very unfortunate."
[Trish]
>From what I can see, Guccione and his lawyer have opposing views as far as
>whether what Venessa did was right or wrong.  So she's supposed to fight and
>win.....?

I don't believe Guccione and his lawyer have opposing views from these 
comments. His lawyer is only saying that the PUBLIC IMAGE of Vanessa was
one of a ''good'' girl, and Guccione is saying that although the public
viewpoint may be that posing nude is ''bad'', in PENTHOUSE' view it is 
perfectly acceptable, and she should not lose her crown for something
that is not bad in the magazines' opinion. Guccione probably knew all 
along that she would have her crown stripped after publcation of the 
photos, due to the SOCIETY view rather than the PENTHOUSE view.

You may question Gucciones' morals, but it was definitely a shrewd financial
move for him as the September issue is breaking records for number of issues 
sold (at $1.00 more than the regular price, I might add).

I think Guccione could have used a little more consideration by publishing
the photos just after her reign as Miss America and allowing her to keep the
title, since it would have ended in a couple months anyways. Of course, it
wouldn't have created as much of a media event as it is now, and that's not
as much $$ in his pocket. Greed knows no limits sometimes...

	Bruce Kovalsky