Misdemeanours: Beauty Queen Scandals

Beauty contests: as much as the feminists, the detractors and the TV executives tried, they never quite went away.

Nor did the scandals that accompanied them, which became as much a tradition as the contests themselves.

Misdemeanours celebrates the beauty queens that made the headlines: the sex, the drugs, the rock 'n' roll stars, as well as the tragedies and heartaches that lay behind those glittering prizes.