1987
When Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America, was accused of getting her sewer-contractor lover’s alimony payments reduced—in exchange for a job for the judge’s daughter, Sukhreet Gabel—she had to quit as Ed Koch’s cultural commissioner, putting a big dent in her beautiful longtime companionship with the mayor (so invaluable during Koch’s ’77 race). Everyone beat the rap, but Myerson’s reputation didn’t.
From the Archives: ‘Myerson’s Slide Into Scandal,’ (March 30, 1987)