Heather Stewart-Whyte

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Heather Stewart-Whyte
Born (1968-09-25) 25 September 1968 (age 55) [1]
East Sussex, England
OccupationModel
Years active1985–present
Spouses
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(m. 1995;div. 1999)​
Dan Koonoo
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(m. 2001;died 2004)​
Children2 (with Noah)
1 (with Koonoo) [2]
Modelling information
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Hair colourBrown [1]
Eye colourGreen [1]
Agency Models 1 [1]

Heather Stewart-Whyte (born 25 September 1968) is a British model. She is the former wife of Yannick Noah.

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Early life

Born in East Sussex, England, [2] Heather Stewart-Whyte is the daughter of Doug Stewart-Whyte, a notable Tory Party activist, but was raised, along with her sisters, and by her mother. Her younger half-brother Don Stewart-Whyte, a Muslim convert, was charged with terrorism but acquitted. [3] [4]

Career

Stewart-Whyte got her first modelling job by replying to an ad by Elite Model Management at age 17 after becoming a nanny. She did not begin modelling full-time until age 21. [1] In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Stewart-Whyte performed runway shows for Versace, Armani, Saint-Laurent and Lagerfeld. She also modeled for Victoria's Secret, Christian Dior, and Maybelline. [1] Stewart-Whyte also landed magazine covers such as back-to-back September Vogue Paris in 1991 and 1992, and the British and Italian editions of both Elle and Marie Claire and French Elle. [1]

Personal life

Stewart-Whyte became Yannick Noah's second wife in 1995, but they divorced in 1999.[ citation needed ] They had been married in Saussay. At first, Stewart-Whyte was awarded custody of their two daughters in 2000.[ citation needed ] Following pregnancy-induced hospitalization during her second marriage to British record executive Dan Koonoo, [2] who was known by many aliases, including Franck Ferrando and was an off and on prison detainee, [5] [6] her son, Stephane, was born in August 2001. Noah gained custody of their two daughters (Elijah and Jénayé, born in 1996 and 1997, respectively) two months later, in November 2001. [2] Custody was adjudicated in the British courts. [7] Heather had been stepmother to Noah's children from his prior marriage to Cécilia Rodhe: Joakim Noah and Yelena Noah. [8]

In 2003, she complained in the press that Noah had not respected her court-ordered visitation rights with daughters Elyjah and Jennaye and that he was using them to promote his album, Les Lionnes. [7] She demanded that her children's faces be blurred in the trailer for a documentary film about Noah. [2]

In March 2004, she was reported as kidnapped in Paris with a $60,000 ransom demand by her mother and sister, but upon her reappearance, the French Police said that she had not actually been kidnapped. [9] [10]

Ferrando/Koonoo died at the Marcel-Cerdan boxing gym in Noisy-le-Grand at the beginning of a boxing match in July 2004. Initially, the cause of death was described as a heart attack, [11] but was later determined to be a pulmonary edema. [5]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Conradi, Peter and Brian O'Driscoll (17 February 2003). "Ex-wife Serves Tennis Star An Ace". New Straits Times . Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Convert turned accused bomber keeps his faith", bbc.co.uk, 5 March 2010. Accessed 1 February 2024.
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  5. 1 2 Sellami, Stéphane (14 July 2004). "Le boxeur escroc est mort d'un oedème pulmonaire". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  6. ↑ Robin, Maxime (6 December 2010). "L'ex de Noah, recherchée par la justice, continue son business". France Soir (in French). Archived from the original on 21 June 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  7. 1 2 "People: Noah criticized by ex-wife". The St. Augustine Record . Associated Press. 21 January 2003. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
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