Heather Stewart-Whyte
Heather Stewart-Whyte | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 September 1968[1] East Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Model |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 2 (with Noah) 1 (with Koonoo)[2] |
| Modelling information | |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Hair colour | Brown[1] |
| Eye colour | Green[1] |
| Agency | Models 1[1] |
Heather Stewart-Whyte (born 25 September 1968) is a British model. She is the former wife of Yannick Noah.
Early life[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g "Heather Stewart-Whyte". Fashion Model Directory. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Conradi, Peter and Brian O'Driscoll (17 February 2003). "Ex-wife Serves Tennis Star An Ace". New Straits Times. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ "Convert turned accused bomber keeps his faith", bbc.co.uk, 5 March 2010. Accessed 1 February 2024.
- ^ Cowell, Alan and Dexter Filkins (11 August 2006). "Suspect in Pakistan Said to Have Qaeda Ties". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ a b Sellami, Stéphane (14 July 2004). "Le boxeur escroc est mort d'un oedème pulmonaire". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 23 September 2014.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "People: Noah criticized by ex-wife". The St. Augustine Record. Associated Press. 21 January 2003. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ "About Yannick Noah". MTV. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ Bremner, Charles and Marie Tourres (18 March 2004). "British model in Paris kidnapping mystery". The Times. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ^ Barkham, Patrick and Marie Tourres (19 March 2004). "'Kidnapped' model found". The Times. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ^ Bardot, Alexandre with Frédéric Gouaillard and Julien Constant (10 July 2004). "L'escroc-boxeur meurt sur un ring". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 23 September 2014.
