Bess Myerson, the former beauty queen, television personality and New York politician who spent four decades in the public eye before her glamorous image was tarnished by scandal, has died.

Bess Myerson crowned Miss America in 1945 AP The FBI file also cites an informant’s report from 1945, the year Myerson was crowned Miss America, calling her a communist.

A nice Jewish girl from the Bronx, Bess Myerson rose to fame as Miss America 1945, the first (and so far only) Jew to win the pageant. After a long career in the spotlight followed by years of ...

Bess Myerson is besieged by newspeople as she emerges from court on Dec. 22, 1988, after she, her boyfriend and a retired state judge were cleared of all charges in an alimony-fixing trial.

Bess Myerson’s star faded when the curtain finally closed on her wild New York run — but she found a kind of serenity in her final years in California, her only granddaughter told the Daily News.

In September 1988, Bess Myerson, Andy Capasso and the now-retired Hortense Gabel all went on trial in Manhattan Federal Court on charges they had conspired to rig Nancy Capasso’s divorce settlement.

Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America and a New York political force until a series of scandals dubbed the "Bess Mess" forced her into obscurity, has died. She was 90.

Then came Bess Myerson, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who was raised in the Sholem Aleichem Houses in the Bronx. It’s hard to say whether there was something distinctly “Jewish ...

Remembering Bess Myerson 1924-2014. Todd S. Purdum is senior writer at Politico and contributing editor for Vanity Fair, as well as author of An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two ...

Bess Myerson, the first and only Jewish Miss America, a TV personality in the 1950s and '60s and later a consumer advocate who changed how food was labeled, has died at age 90.