A&E's new documentary series Secrets of Miss America digs into the dark side of the inner workings behind the century-old pageant.
Tiaras, sashes, swimsuits, awkward Q&As: All things the mention of a pageant might bring to mind.
The disgraced former physician—who is currently serving time behind bars for sexual abuse—was stabbed multiple times at a federal facility in Florida
And in the United States, no pageant is more firmly rooted in popular culture than Miss America,
which was founded in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue" based in Atlantic City, N.J.
They've long since leaned into the scholarship side of the proceedings—in 1945,