Word: chiapel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether Williams was right or wrong in posing for the nude pictures is a judgment each individual must make for himself. But the behavior of Photographer Tom Chiapel and Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione can best be described as sleazy, uncaring and self-serving...
...steadfastly maintained that "it was a business decision" to run the pictures, "not a moral decision," ordered up another print run of 750,000 copies. He declined to say how much he had paid for the pictures, taken two years ago by a Mount Kisco, N.Y., photographer, Tom Chiapel, for whom Williams had once worked as a receptionist. Chiapel, who had been in financial straits before selling the Williams photographs, dodged the press...
Also gusting around are some idle questions about the photos. Williams she was only 19 when they were that Chiapel told her he wanted to try "a new concept of silhouettes with two models" after he had done one nude session with her alone. The first nudes were unexceptionally raunchy (two of the Penthouse shots are apparently from this take). But material from the second session with Williams and another woman is enough to take the starch out of anyone's shirt, even the Playboy Bunny's. One of the minor amusements of this whole episode...
...hastily called in response to an announcement by Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione, 53, that Williams will be featured in nude, extremely explicit love scenes with another woman on ten pages of the skin mag's September issue. According to the beauty queen's mother, Freelance Photographer Tom Chiapel took the black-and-white pictures two summers ago while Williams was working as a makeup artist and receptionist at a model agency. She reportedly signed a release and made little or no money from the photo session. Why the pictures surfaced now, just two months before...