Heather Stewart-Whyte
Born (1968-09-25) 25 September 1968[1]
East Sussex, England
OccupationModel
Years active1985–present
Spouses
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(m. 1995; div. 1999)​
    Dan Koonoo
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    (m. 2001; died 2004)​
    Children2 (with Noah)
    1 (with Koonoo)[2]
    Modelling information
    Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
    Hair colourBrown[1]
    Eye colourGreen[1]
    AgencyModels 1[1]

    Heather Stewart-Whyte (born 25 September 1968) is a British model. She is the former wife of Yannick Noah.

    Early life

    Born in the UK,[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, who was raised by Doug, was suspected of terrorism.[3][4] She was raised on an English farm.[1]

    Career

    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

    Stewart-Whyte became Yannick Noah's second wife in 1995, but they divorced in 1999.[5] They had been married in Saussay.[2] At first Stewart-Whyte was awarded custody of their two daughters in 2000, but after pregnancy-induced hospitalization during her second marriage to British record executive Dan Koonoo,[2] Noah gained custody of their two daughters.[5] Koonoo was known by many aliases, including Franck Ferrando and was an off and on prison detainee.[6][7] Stewart-Whyte's son Stephane was born in August 2001 and Noah gained custody of the daughters in November.[2] Noah and Stuart-Whyte lived in Europe,[8] and custody was adjudicated in the British Courts.[9] Daughters Elijah and Jénayé were born in 1996 and 1997, respectively.[10] She was stepmother to Noah's children from his prior marriage to Cécilia Rodhe: Joakim Noah and Yelena Noah.[10] 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.[9] 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.[11][12] Ferrando/Koonoo died at the Marcel-Cerdan boxing gym in Noisy-le-Grand at the beginning of a boxing match in July 2004. At first the cause of death was described as a heart attack,[13] but was later determined to be a pulmonary edema.[6]

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Heather Stewart-Whyte". Fashion Model Directory. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
    2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Conradi, Peter and Brian O'Driscoll (2003-02-17). "Ex-wife Serves Tennis Star An Ace". New Straits Times. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
    3. ↑ Rose, Derek (2006-08-12). "Beauty Tied To A Beast!. Top Brit Model Is Kin To Suspect". Daily News. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
    4. ↑ Cowell, Alan and Dexter Filkins (2006-08-11). "Suspect in Pakistan Said to Have Qaeda Ties". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
    5. 1 2 Keil, Braden (2007-04-19). "Sliding Doors". New York Post. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
    6. 1 2 Sellami, Stéphane (2004-07-14). "Le boxeur escroc est mort d'un oedème pulmonaire". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 2014-09-23.
    7. ↑ Robin, Maxime (2010-12-06). "L'ex de Noah, recherchée par la justice, continue son business". France Soir (in French). Archived from the original on 2014-06-21. Retrieved 2014-09-23.
    8. ↑ Brady, Erik (2004-03-23). "Star high school athlete becomes his own man". USA Today. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
    9. 1 2 "People: Noah criticized by ex-wife". The St. Augustine Record. Associated Press. 2003-01-21. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
    10. 1 2 "About Yannick Noah". MTV. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
    11. ↑ Bremner, Charles and Marie Tourres (2004-03-18). "British model in Paris kidnapping mystery". The Times. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
    12. ↑ Barkham, Patrick and Marie Tourres (2004-03-19). "'Kidnapped' model found". The Times. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
    13. ↑ Bardot, Alexandre with Frédéric Gouaillard and Julien Constant (2004-07-10). "L'escroc-boxeur meurt sur un ring". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 2014-09-23.
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