Sapio won the Miss California title in 1999, and competed in the nationally televised Miss America pageant.
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His 2009 appearance sparked controversy due to a badly received ironic joke about murdering the latest Miss California, who stated that she opposed same-sex marriages.
Famous Broadway producer Earl Carroll, Murder at the Vanities, also disagreed with their choice and took the runner-up to New York where he performed a coronation of Miss California as "the true Miss America" shortly after the official pageant.
The Civic Auditorium was the site of the annual Miss California beauty pageant until 1985, when the pageant left Santa Cruz after years of protests and a "Myth California" counterpageant organized by local feminist activists led by Ann Simonton and Nikki Craft.
In September 2006, Chapman appeared with Cristina Nardozzi (Miss Massachusetts USA 2005), Jennifer Fairbank (Miss Hawaii USA 2005), Berset, Tamiko Nash (Miss California USA 2006), Angelique Breux (Miss California USA 1999) and Lindsay Douglas (Miss Kansas USA 2002) on NBC game show 1 vs. 100.