Deborah Ann Fountain

This revolutionary woman was ahead of her time - "self help remedy"!
These days she goes by the name "Fugazy".

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Miss New York State, expelled from tonight's Miss U.S.A....
By JOHN F. RHODES

NEW YORK -- Miss New York State, expelled from tonight's Miss U.S.A. Pageant for padding her bra, today sought a court order to allow her to participate in the contest. She claimed her inch-thick rubber falsies were not for looks, but a 'self-help remedy.'

Deborah Ann Fountain, 25, filed an affidavit in state Supreme Court in Manhattan asking pageant officials to explain why she should not be reinstated. The affidavit named Kayser-Roth Corp., Miss Universe Inc., and Harold Glasser, chairman of the board of the pageant.

The pageant is scheduled for tonight in Biloxi, Miss.

A hearing is expected to be held later today to decide the merits of the request.

Miss New York was denounced by the other girls in the contest for her charges that many of them had padded their charms.

'We are incensed and outraged by the self-serving charges of widespread padding and infractions by Miss USA contestants made by Deborah A. Fountain, Miss New York, and categorically deny them,' the other 50 girls said in a joint statement.

The statement, read by Miss Nevada, Mary Lebsek, and Miss Michigan, Karon Eibson, maintained the other girls have followed 'every rule' of the 1981 pageant.

'It is apparent to us that Miss Fountain, in her attempt to justify her own act of cheating, is now trying to damage the reputation of all participants and officials of the finest pageant organization in the world,' the statement said.

'We deplore her misguided actions which only serve to reinforce the fact that she was not worthy of participating in this event -- bearing the title of Miss USA or representing our country in the Miss Universe Pageant.'

Miss Fountain was expelled Monday in a 29-21 vote by the other contestants. Her lawyer, Joel Posner, said that allowing her fellow contestants to vote on her status is 'like having the wolves decide if a rabbit should live.'

In court papers, she said she used inch-thick falsies to compensate for a 15-pound weight loss that followed the death of her brother.

The affidavit described her decision to pad her suit as a 'self-help remedy.' It said that as a result of the death of Miss Fountains's 21-year-old brother in mid-March she 'lost 15 pounds and dropped two full dress sizes.'

It also said the bathing suit furnished her by pageant officials was 'too large and exposed parts of her breasts and buttocks.'

'Miss New York never would have resorted to this self-help remedy if the pageant officials had provided her with either a new suit that was the correct size or altered the one they forced her to wear,' the affidavit said.

Miss Fountain is the only contestant to be booted out of the 30-year-old pageant, which selects a winner to vie for the title of Miss Universe. The Miss U.S.A. Pageant will be nationally televised tonight from the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi.

'I wanted to be famous, but not like this,' Miss Fountain said.

She said she was suing the pageant 'for the terrible humiliation they have caused me.' She said in court papers that a beauty pageant official, tipped by a contestant with silicone implants, ripped down her swimsuit, exposing her falsies backstage.

At least four other women in the contest had silicone implants to boost their bustlines, Miss Fountain said. She said she knew 'from seeing the scars' on their breasts when the contestants changed in a communal dressing room.

She also claimed 20 other beauty contestants padded their bras in the competition.

'It's commonplace. I'd seen other girls doing it for two weeks during the evening gown and state costume competitions,' Miss Fountain told reporters at LaGuardia Airport after flying in from Biloxi.

Miss Fountain said she would not identify the other contestants who cheated, unless it meant she could return to the pageant.

Court papers said the swimsuit she was given to wear would have fit her 35-23-35 figure of seven weeks ago, but did not cover her diminished curves; in fact, 'exposed parts of her breasts and buttocks.'

Miss Fountain said she asked for another suit or alterations, and even sewed the front of the bathing suit herself. Pageant officials made her remove the stitching, she said.

Pageant President Harold Glasser denied Miss Fountain had asked for any alteration of the swimsuit during the last two weeks. He said he had 'no idea' if any contestants had breast implants.

'The issue is not why she inserted the falsies,' Glasser said. 'It's a moral question of deliberate deception.'