In this file photo from Jan. 9, 2004, Former "Virginia Slims Girl" model and business woman Michele Pommier sits in the living room of her South Beach condo. Candace Barbot Miami Herald file Michele ...
They called it a “geriatric ghetto” and “God’s waiting room.” The sidewalks were cracked, the buildings were run-down and the population of Miami Beach’s South Beach neighborhood in the early 1980s ...
Michele Pommier, who led a transformation of Miami Beach into a modeling magnet with her namesake agency, was an original Virginia Slims model in the 1970s’ “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby” ad campaign.