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Endpoint: Penny James (Model & Author)



created on: 23/12/2025
by: bob (10428)
 
 

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Penny James (born in 1942, in Pueblo, Colorado, USA - died on April 11, 2019 (aged 77)) was a former beauty model, business owner and author.
She was the football/homecoming queen at Pueblo East High. A Miss Colorado, then a semi-finalist at the Miss U.S.A. pageant. A New York model for more than a decade.
Her father Joseph ran a used car lot on the East Side. Her father Joseph ran a used car lot on the East Side.

James graduated from East High in 1960 and within two years had competed in the Miss Universe pageant. She was Miss Colorado, 1962, and a runner up to Miss USA.
She worked for 11 years for Whilhelmina and Eileen Ford in New York City. She appeared on the covers of glamour magazines and in numerous TV commercials.
She even was on some covers of Playboy in the 1960s, but only the covers.

When she left the modeling world she purchased a 100-year-old farmhouse along the Delaware River in Shohola, Pa. There, she opened a gallery specializing in beds she made from trees, complete with branches and leaves.

In 2017, she finished her book, “Muffin A True Story on an Orphaned Bear Cub and the Woman Who Raised Her.” It was James’ first-person account of having befriended a bear cub at her farmhouse and maintaining a friendship with the bear — then its cubs — for more than a decade.

Penny’s husband had a fling with fame as well. A plastic surgeon, he briefly starred in a syndicated tv series “Today’s Health.” After 20 years of marriage, Penny and her husband divorced.

Penny James was working on a second book, “Zero Degrees of Separation,” when she died on April 11, 2019. She suffered from cancer and auto-immune problems in the two predecing years.
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