Bess Myerson Pleads Guilty to Shoplifting and Draws $100 Fine
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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Bess Myerson, a former Miss America who once served as New York City cultural affairs commissioner, pleaded guilty Friday to shoplifting from a department store two months ago.
Myerson, 64, did not appear in court but submitted a signed statement through her attorney. She was fined $100 and paid $48 in court costs.
When arrested on May 27 with $44 worth of cosmetics and other merchandise outside the store, Myerson said she left the store because she had forgotten to lock her car and intended to return.
Myerson had sought a postponement of the shoplifting case until after her federal trial on charges that she tried to influence a New York City judge handling the divorce of her reputed lover, Carl Capasso.
She was here in May to visit Capasso, who is serving a sentence for tax evasion at the nearby Allenwood Federal Prison Camp.
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