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LOS ANGELES (AP)   Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America and a New York political force until a series of scandals dubbed the Mess forced her into obscurity, has died. She was 90.
Myerson died Dec. 14 at her home in Santa Monica, California, according to the Los Angeles coroner office and Department of Public Health Vital Records Office. Her death was first reported by The New York Times.
The Bronx born Myerson was hailed as a Jewish, feminist Jackie Robinson   a groundbreaker for her religion and sex   after parlaying her stunning 1945 Miss America victory into national celebrity.
The 5 foot 10 dark haired beauty, unlike her predecessors, accentuated her intelligence. Myerson landed a series of television jobs, from game show hostess to on air reporter, before her appointment as New York City chief consumer watchdog in 1969.
The popular Myerson helped Ed Koch win the 1977 mayoral race, deflecting rumors of the bachelor candidate homosexuality   which he neither confirmed nor denied   with her constant presence at his side. immaculate was von Smartphones über Fernseher und SpieleKonsolen deception, cynics called it after the couple shared an election night victory kiss. Senate. Three years later, Koch appointed her Cultural Affairs commissioner   an $83,000 a year post as the city liaison to the arts.
like to read about me, she said in a 1987 interview. like to imagine themselves in my life. Myerson carefully cultivated eller du vil aldrig v疆re tilfredse image crumbled in the mid 1980s under a barrage of political and personal embarrassments that became known as the Bess Mess.
A city background check exposed Myerson as an insanely jealous woman who harassed an ex boyfriend and his new lover. She repeatedly invoked her right against self incrimination in a 1986 corruption probe of a subsequent boyfriend, Carl Capasso, who was born the year Myerson was crowned.
Capasso, a contractor with purported mob ties, pleaded guilty to nine counts of tax evasion.
Myerson, Capasso and Judge Hortense Gabel were indicted in October 1987 on a charge of conspiring to fix Capasso divorce case. Prosecutors said Gabel daughter, Sukhreet, received a city job in return for the judge lowering of Capasso alimony and child support payments.
Before that trial began the next year, Myerson was convicted of shoplifting nail polish and earrings from a Pennsylvania store. A 1970 shoplifting conviction was also made public.
Although Myerson and her co defendants were acquitted in the divorce fixing case, the damage was done. She had already resigned her Koch administration post, and her public career was virtually over.
The Miss America Organization said in a statement Monday that Myerson would be remembered for her unwavering commitment to equality.
used her Miss America title to fight anti Semitism and racial bigotry as she traveled around the country, the organization said.
Bess Myerson was born July 16, 1924, the second daughter of Russian immigrants. Raised in a one bedroom Bronx apartment, she was beloved by her housepainter father, Louis, and beleaguered by her strict mother, Bella.
By age 12, Myerson was taller and thinner than her classmates   she once played Olive Oyl in a school production. Her natural beauty soon emerged, and older sister Sylvia shepherded Myerson into the Miss New York City pageant in 1945.
Myerson won, advancing to Atlantic City for the Miss America pageant. Organizers urged her investit 3 millions  dans lancien site de Frank Chervan sur Jackson Street à Bedford to change her name   they suggested Merrick   but Myerson refused.
Her title, captured as the horrors of the Holocaust were coming to light, made Myerson a hero to her peers. Walking down the stage to cries of tov! from Jews in the audience, Myerson later recalled thinking, victory is theirs. content with the stereotypical role of Miss America, Myerson left McKay Massey och Steven Larson an exploitive vaudeville revue and mounted a speaking tour for the Anti Defamation League.
America brainy, too! announced a Daily News headline about the Hunter College graduate turned pageant winner.
Myerson remained socially aware through the years. She received the ADL woman of the year award in 1965, the same year she began a seven year stint as chairwoman of the Bonds for Israel fund.
After surviving ovarian cancer in the early 1970s, she took the lead in battling that disease. She was appointed to committees by Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
Her first break came on TV game shows. Myerson appeared as the in Mink on Big Payoff from 1951 to 1959 and as a panelist on Got A Secret from 1957 to 1968. She served as commentator for the Miss America Pageant from 1964 to 1968.
She changed careers in 1969, when Mayor John V. Lindsay named her the city consumer affairs commissioner. She stayed until 1973.
She backed Koch in the hotly contested 1977 mayoral race, holding hands with him as they marched in the Columbus Day parade. Koch media adviser David Garth said it was Myerson who put his candidate over the top.
Her loyalty was repaid Feb. 23, 1983, when Koch appointed her cultural affairs commissioner. It was a decision that did neither much good, however.
Myerson problems were exposed amid several other scandals that kept Koch from winning a fourth term as mayor. But while Koch never left the public eye, Myerson drop was precipitous   occasional appearances at cancer fundraisers or visits to friends birthday parties.
  
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