NEW YORK – Miss New Jersey says she’s doing nothing illegal in the photos sent by someone trying to blackmail her into giving up her crown.
In an interview on NBC’s “Today” show Monday, Amy Polumbo said the photos show no nudity, pornography or underage drinking.
“I am not doing anything illegal” in the pictures, she said.
The 22-year-old college student said she has no idea who might have assembled two packages of private photos that were sent to Miss New Jersey and Miss America pageant officials last week.
“Whoever this is, I think they’re a very miserable person and I really feel bad for them,” Polumbo said.
She wouldn’t rule out other contestants.The anonymous sender threatened in a letter to release the photos publicly if Polumbo doesn’t drop out of the Miss America pageant. She has refused to do so.
Her lawyer, Anthony Caruso, has said that fictitious captions added to the photos were more troubling than the photos themselves. He said some of photos came from Polumbo’s former Facebook Web page.
Jason Priestley and his wife welcome baby girl
LOS ANGELES – Jason Priestley, star of ’90s TV series “Beverly Hills, 90210,” is a proud father.
His wife, Naomi Lowde-Priestley, gave birth to a baby girl July 2, the 37-year-old actor told KTTV-TV on Monday. She is the couple’s first child.
“She’s beautiful,” he said. “It was like the second she came into the world, just everything changed.”
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