Difference between revisions of "Jani Allan and Adoption"
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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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'''South African model and journalist''' | '''South African model and journalist''' | ||
− | Allan was adopted aged one month by a wealthy British-South African couple, John and Janet Fry. John Fry died when she was 10. | + | Allan was [[adopted]] aged one month by a wealthy British-South African couple, John and Janet Fry. John Fry died when she was 10. |
She has been a model and married a wealthy South African, Gordon Schachat, but later had an affair with Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the extreme right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement, which led to a notorious and unsuccessful libel suit against the UK Channel 4 in 1992. | She has been a model and married a wealthy South African, Gordon Schachat, but later had an affair with Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the extreme right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement, which led to a notorious and unsuccessful libel suit against the UK Channel 4 in 1992. | ||
She has unsuccessfully tried to trace her birth family. | She has unsuccessfully tried to trace her birth family. | ||
− | She is now a freelance journalist and television producer/broadcaster and has written a book, White Sunset, about the break-up of white society in South Africa. | + | She is now a freelance journalist and television producer/broadcaster and has written a book, White Sunset, about the break-up of white society in [[South Africa]]. |
== References == | == References == |
Revision as of 05:17, 27 March 2014
Biography
1952-
South African model and journalist
Allan was adopted aged one month by a wealthy British-South African couple, John and Janet Fry. John Fry died when she was 10. She has been a model and married a wealthy South African, Gordon Schachat, but later had an affair with Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the extreme right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement, which led to a notorious and unsuccessful libel suit against the UK Channel 4 in 1992.
She has unsuccessfully tried to trace her birth family.
She is now a freelance journalist and television producer/broadcaster and has written a book, White Sunset, about the break-up of white society in South Africa.
References
Wavell, Stuart. "The Trials of Jani Allan," Sunday Times [London], 9 August 1992, p. 5/11 Streak, Diana. "Victim or Vixen?" [interview], Fair Lady, 28 May 1997. Also formerly available at: [1] Allan, Jani. "Cyberjani: On-Line and Off the Cuff." Available at: [2]
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- Anti-social or Disruptive Behavior, Adhd
- Formal, American/European-Type Adoption
- Birth or Infancy
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- Divorce or Premature Death of Adoptive Parent(s)
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