In 1993, she won the Mrs. Florida America beauty pageant.[10][11][12] She now owns the Mrs. Florida America beauty pageant contest and serves as its director.[13]
Siegel is on the board of directors of Westgate Resorts and Ocoee Thrift Mart, a store selling used goods that she owns and founded and which donates some of its profits to charity.[14] She also founded the charity Locals Helping Locals.[15]
The television series Queen of Versailles Reigns Again, which continues the story of the house and Siegel family, started airing on the Discovery+ streaming service in Spring 2022.[18] The series moved to HBO Max in December 2022.[19]
Personal life
Siegel is the wife of Westgate Resorts owner David Siegel. They married in a Jewish ceremony in 2000.[20][21] They have eight children together, including her adopted niece, Jonquil,[22] who came to live with them after her mother died, and one daughter from a previous relationship, Victoria.[23][24] Their other children are: David, Daniel, Debbie, Drew, and twins, Jacqueline and Jordan.[25] Her daughter, Victoria, died of a drug overdose at age 18 in June 2015.[26]
^Jean Patteson (August 20, 2006). "It's good to be the queen". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved June 8, 2015. As a girl growing up in a middle-class family in Binghamton, N.Y., Jacqueline's dreams were relatively ordinary. She would study computer engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology; build a career in business; then marry, have a baby and settle down. Instead, after college and a few months cooped up in a windowless IBM office, she signed on with a New York modeling agency and traveled the world posing for lingerie and liquor ads.
^Jackie Brockington (February 16, 2015). "Inside 90,000-square-foot 'Queen of Versailles' home". News 13. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2015. But let's get back to Jacqueline, "Jackie" to her friends. She wasn't born rich. She came from a modest family and grew up in Binghamton, New York….Working her way through college, she graduated with a computer engineering degree. She has worked at IBM and was even a model in New York, but moved to Florida to compete in the Mrs. Florida pageant, which she won.
^Hal Boedeker (April 22, 2015). "Queen of Versailles tries 'Celebrity Wife Swap'". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved June 8, 2015. "Queen of Versailles" star Jackie Siegel and her husband, time-share mogul David Siegel, will be featured on "Celebrity Wife Swap," ABC has confirmed.
^Alec M. Priester (June 3, 2015). "What's On TV Wednesday". The New York Times. Retrieved June 8, 2015. 10 P.M. (ABC) Celebrity Wife Swap Jeremy London, a television actor who was a regular on "7th Heaven," and his wife, Juliet Reeves, exchange partners with the Orlando-based time-share billionaire David Siegel and his wife, Jackie Siegel, who was featured in the documentary "The Queen of Versailles." All parties struggle to adjust.
^Jamie Lincoln. "Lauren Greenfield Makes a House Call". Interview. Retrieved June 8, 2015. Jonquil speaks really eloquently to that; she's the adoptive niece who comes from poverty and Jackie takes her in.
