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, which recounts the events surrounding the libel lawsuit brought by former

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Kim Pring against ''

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'' in 1980. Pring had been sexually ridiculed in '' Hustler'' magazine after becoming Miss Wyoming, and Spence argued that her right to privacy as a non-public persona had been violated.

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