The 81-year-old philanthropist, who was the wife of music executive Clarence Avant, was a key supporter of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and a collector of Japanese lacquer objects.
“Jacquie,” as friends and family called her, was born Jacqueline Alberta Gray on March 6, 1940 in Jamaica Queens, New York.
In the 1960s, she began a career as a hospital technician and phlebotomist in New York City, and also modeled for Ebony Fashion Fair, an annual fashion show and fundraising event created by Eunice Johnson of Chicago’s Johnson Publishing Company, which traveled to 30 cities, focusing on Black neighborhoods there. The show featured mostly African-American models wearing luxury European designers like Yves St. Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Givenchy, and Jean Paul Gaultier.
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