Miss New Jersey fights photo scandal

by Kaitlin | July 6, 2007 at 01:36 pm | 6062 views | add comment

There's no way I could compete with the New York Post's headline for this one: "N.J. Miss in a Fix Over Her Pics." So I just didn't try.

Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo--who is in the running for Miss America--was recently threatened with blackmail over a series of old photos of her in supposedly incriminating positions. If you want my theory about this, I'd say that it's someone who wants to see the runner up step into the top spot. You may have noticed this is Jersey, and everyone from the cops to the pageant participants is Italian...I think Polumbo needs to call on some waste management types to get the job done. (Hey, I'm Italian...I'm allowed to say such things.)

Polumbo said that she received copies of between six and a dozen photos—which she and her attorney would only describe as not revealing—in the mail on June 25, accompanied by a letter threatening to publish them unless she relinquished her crown to first runner-up Ronica Licciardello.

Attorney Anthony R. Caruso said that he has been in touch with state and federal authorities to try to identify the source of the threats, adding that he believes they have come from "someone close to Amy."