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==Biography==
 
==Biography==
 
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'''South African model and journalist'''
 
'''South African model and journalist'''
  
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Allan was adopted aged one month by a wealthy British-South African couple, John and Janet Fry. John Fry died when she was 10.  
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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.  
  
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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.
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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

Face Value: The collected journalism of Jani Allan
Source: Wikipedia.org.

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]