Iconic 'Jaws' Image Goes Missing

I wrote about my obsession with "Jaws" HERE -- but it's only on the 40th anniversary of the movie's release that I realize how lucky I was to have a cool step-aunt who took me to see it in the theater (I was only 8!). Now I'm reading the iconic image that was used on the cover of the Peter Benchley novel and movie poster has gone missing.

Interesting footnote:

The woman in the picture was a 24-year-old Wilhelmina model Allison Maher. The shoot was one of her first jobs. “I knew it was a book cover and that was it,” says the now-model, now named Allison Stern, who married real-estate developer Leonard Stern and is now a prominent philanthropist, with an area named for her at the Central Park Zoo. She lay across two stools to simulate a swimming motion, and was paid $35. Stern says she didn’t get recognized despite the poster’s ubiquity — including being on a giant billboard in Times Square. “If you know me, you can tell it’s me,” says Stern, who has a copy of the poster signed by Spielberg. “But I think everyone assumed the girl swimming was the girl from the movie.”

Read more HERE.