A key figure in Bess Myerson’s trial on bribery charges says she’s now “almost as reclusive as Bess was.” Speaking to The News 27 years after Myerson was acquitted, putting an end to the “Bess Mess,” ...

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. “I ...

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 ...

Bess Myerson, a Bronx-born beauty whose selection as the first — and to date only — Jewish Miss America turned out to be more than a leggy, musically talented woman. Succumbing at 90 to dementia, she ...

She was an iconic figure to her fellow American Jews in the wake of the Holocaust, an early television star, a pioneering consumer advocate and the smart, sexy campaign partner who helped elect one of ...

3 Exclusive: An ‘Argument’ With Stephen Sondheim Led to Steven Sater’s New Musical MURDER AT THE GATES From the moment in 1945 when she became the first (and still only) Jewish woman to be crowned ...

The fact that Bess Myerson, whose death at age 90 on December 14 was recently announced, remains the only Jewish winner in the 90-plus year history of the Miss America pageant surely says more about ...

The Jewish community mourns the death of Bess Myerson, crowned the first Jewish Miss America of 1945. Myerson, age 90, died Dec. 14 in Santa Monica, Calif, but her passing was only made public on Jan.