Furious Miss New Jersey pageant officials say they are determined to find the blackmailers who hatched a twisted scheme to knock a pageant queen from her throne.
“This isn’t over – we want to know who did it,” pageant co-director Sally Johnston told The Post.
A group calling itself the Committee to Save Miss America sparked a furor after it threatened to go public with pictures Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo had posted on a private Web site if she didn’t relinquish her tiara.
Polumbo called the blackmailers’ bluff by releasing the photos herself yesterday.
Copies of the photos – which include a shot of Polumbo’s boyfriend playfully biting her fully-clothed breast, and another featuring the pageant queen spread-eagle in blue jeans in the back of a limo – were mailed to board members in late June. The would-be blackmailers slapped their own vulgar and obscene captions over the pictures.
The pictures were taken from her Facebook site, which required a password to view. According to Johnston, “about 75 people” had access to Polumbo’s page.