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36 Years Ago: Former Miss Wyoming Wins $26 Million Judgement Against Penthouse Magazine
36 Years Ago: Former Miss Wyoming Wins $26 Million Judgement Against Penthouse Magazine
36 Years Ago: Former Miss Wyoming Wins $26 Million Judgement Against Penthouse Magazine
This week marks the 36th anniversary of Wyoming’s wildest court case. February 20, 1981, a jury awarded former Miss Wyoming Kimerli Jayne Pring $26 million in damages, ruling that she had been libeled by Penthouse Magazine. Pring, who won the Miss Wyoming pageant in 1978, filed suit after Penthouse published a story in their August 1979 issue detailing the sexual exploits of a fictional character