For Barra Grant, it wasn’t easy growing up with Miss America for a mom. Bess Myerson, who reigned as the beauty queen in 1945, found fame as a beloved game show panelist, advised three presidents and ...

LOS ANGELES - 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. Myerson died ...

Barra Grant (left) is the star of an autobiographical one-woman show about growing up with her abusive mother, 1945 Miss America-turned-TV star and NYC political player Bess Myerson (right). Helayne ...

Ever since the Miss America pageant began, the beautiful contestants embodied the dreams of every young girl in the nation. Except one. Her name is Barra Grant, whose mother Bess Myerson was the only ...

Bess Myerson, the first and only Jewish Miss America and, later, a power player in New York politics, was born on July 16, 1924. Myerson, a figure of glamour and, eventually, scandal, was a sign of ...

Bess Myerson, who rose from working-class Bronx roots to become the first Jewish woman to be crowned Miss America and went on to become a television star and a prominent figure in New York City ...

LOS ANGELES — 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. Myerson died ...

"Fame was like a tongue sandwich to my mother," is one way Barra Grant puts it in her autobiographical (almost) solo play, MISS AMERICA'S UGLY DAUGHTER: BESS MYERSON AND ME. From the moment in 1945 ...

When Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America, was accused of getting her sewer-­contractor lover’s ­alimony payments ­reduced—in exchange for a job for the judge’s daughter, Sukhreet Gabel—she had ...

LOS ANGELES -- The first Jewish Miss America, who parlayed her stunning 1945 victory into national celebrity, has died. Bess Myerson was 90. The Los Angeles coroner's office and Department of Public ...