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Heather Stewart-Whyte
Heather Stewart-Whyte (born 25 September 1968) is a British model. She is the former wife of Yannick Noah. Early lifeBorn in East Sussex, England, [2] Heather Stewart-Whyte is the daughter of Doug Stewart-Whyte, a notable Conservative 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] CareerStewart-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 lifeStewart-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
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