CANDID photos have been revealed, showing the outfits which Pamela Anderson and Janet Jackson shocked Hollywood’s most exclusive party with.

The photos are featured in a new book by celebrity photographer Selma Fonseca, which documents her work at the Vanity Fair Oscars party in the 2000s.

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Working the red carpet and behind the scenes, Selma hobnobbed with Hollywood’s glitterati and portrayed them with their guard down in a time before camera phones were a thing. 

In the book Partying with Selma: Inside Hollywood’s Brightest Night, fans get a glimpse of A-listers such as Gwyneth Paltrow as she joked around with then-boyfriend Ben Affleck in 2000.

In another snap, Pulp Fiction star Uma Thurman’s eye-popping  cleavage was on full display shortly after she gave birth to son Levon in 2002 while As Good As It Gets actress Helen Hunt and movie producer Matthew Carnahan kiss in the background.

Two of the pics that stand out, though, feature former Baywatch babe Anderson, now 55, and Escapade singer Jackson, 56, and their get ups that set tongues wagging.

Anderson showed up to the party at Mortons restaurant in West Hollywood in 2001 wearing sunglasses and dressed in a tiny denim miniskirt, a white shirt tied at the waist and a knee-high pair of black leather boots.     

She spent the night hanging out with Brit actress Elizabeth Hurley, 57, and the two were pictured with friends including photographer David LaChapelle by Selma.

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The Brazilian-born photographer recalls how Anderson’s “trashy” outfit and antics with Hurley did not go down well with Vanity Fair.    

Selma Fonseca said: “The Vanity Fair people were appalled. 

“How can you come to a black tie Oscars party dressed like that?

“I think they’re right – if there’s a dress code, follow the dress code. 

“This year from what I saw all the girls seemed to be practically naked but back then everybody was super dressed up. 

“I remember that everybody was kind of looking at Pamela Anderson like, ‘What’s going on here?’

“The skirt was so short, you could see all of her a**. Her shirt was tied up and her boobs were really popping out. 

“She was with Elizabeth Hurley and they were being very touchy feely with each other and seemed quite tipsy.” 

Then Vanity Fair editor and Oscars party supremo Graydon Carter, 73, was open about how unimpressed he was with Anderson and Hurley’s “attentions to one another” at the party.

A Los Angeles Times article from 2002 says Carter’s response to the two women’s appearance at the previous year’s party was: “They can go to a Maxim party.”

In an excerpt from his book Oscar Night, published in 2004, he went further, writing: “We’ve seen our share of spectacles we’d like to forget, such as the time Pamela Anderson, looking like she had just come from a job at the car wash, spent the evening glued at the hip to Elizabeth Hurley.”

Carter was not the only one to cattily comment on the moment, with Hollywood legend Joan Collins likening Anderson to “a hooker on holiday” in a note in her diary from that night which was published years later.

Despite earning Carter and Collins’ disapproval, Anderson was pictured at the party again in 2005 in a somewhat more modest outfit – but still rocking the sunglasses.

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In 2002, it was Jackson’s turn to be the center of attention for showing off her toned physique in a very revealing mesh bikini top and a pair of jeans. 

Selma recalled: “Janet was at the top of her game that year, you can see that her body was amazing in the pics. 

“She was working out and looked incredible. 

“But I don’t think they were expecting her to wear that outrageous outfit. 

“You can show your belly wearing a dress, you don’t need to wear pants with a bikini top like that.

“The outfit was awful. 

“She was dressed the way you would to go to a rock concert, not a Vanity Fair Oscars party.”

Jackson may have taken the criticisms to heart because when she too was pictured again at the Vanity Fair party in 2005 she wore an extremely elegant white evening gown.

Another of the book’s standout pictures shows a gum-chewing Tom Cruise giving his now ex-wife Nicole Kidman a sideways look in 2000 – the year before they split.

It also includes a pic of late Tom Sizemore partying with Brad Pitt and Hailey Bieber’s dad Stephen Baldwin in 2001.

Looking back on the times that she had at the Vanity Fair party, Selma – who has also penned a TV show about how she migrated to New York City in the 1990s – said: “It was so much fun.

“Everyone was dancing to the band, people could smoke inside and everybody got drunk.

“There were no camera phones then so people could really let their hair down.

“It was the place to be on Oscars night.”

Hardcover photo book Partying with Selma is available on Amazon.

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