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By 1955 Jo Jepsen was ready to return to Hollywood. At forty-four, roles were drying up for the starlet, but when she starred in a star-studded adaption of "Macbeth" as Lady Macbeth herself she was back on the market. It was a huge hit and cemented her popularity, despite her age. For her role she would win her second Oscar. Jepsen wowed the audience in her YSL for Dior shimmering trapeze dress.
Shortly after, Jo would act in another epic film, called "Romanov," where she would meet her next love, the young director of the film. Born into a Russian family in New York, Nikita Stravinsky was ten years her junior, and some thought much too plain for such a glamorous woman. With curly auburn hair, a love of turtlenecks, and his iconic round black glasses, they seemed an odd match. But in an interview with Vogue, Jo clarified it was his heart that had attracted her, plus a common affection for animals. For their one-year anniversary Stravinsky gave her a pair of Persian Kittens, Lace and Velvet. After only being together for only two short years, Jo found out she was pregnant. A lavish wedding was planned, one that would take place in Barcelona and see the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Dean Martin in attendance. Unfortunately, it would all come to a standstill when Stravinsky would die tragically in a plane crash, leaving Jo pregnant and alone. The story of their doomed love was front-page news, and Jo would be the recipient of countless letters of condolences, well-wishes, and prayers.
The studios were not pleased to have their star pregnant and unmarried, and soon Jo would find herself relegated to bit parts and guest appearances on TV shows. She would retire officially from acting in 1960, moving back to her chateau in Provence, where she would write a bestselling biography on her life, called "Memorandum." Her later years were marked by animal activism, and charitable work -- she would auction off several of her famous dresses for a local French hospital in '65 -- and the rare interviews, mostly conducted in her 19th century style kitchen, or herb garden. In 1970 Jo Jepsen would reunite with her former love, the jazz singer Safi Mandeleau, and they would spend the rest of their lives together. Jo Jepsen would live on to just two weeks shy of her 100th birthday, surrounded by her family and loved ones, her animals, her memories, a photo of her son, lost in Cambodia, and the man who almost became her husband.
Nikita George Stravinsky and Jo Jepsen with Rose Feodora Jepsen.
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Rose Jepsen would be a media darling from the moment she was born, and they would closely follow her, from the time she was in pink dresses and bobby-socks to her troubled adolescence, which consisted of drugs, alcohol and much-older boyfriends. One of those boyfriends encouraged her to start singing. Rose would form an all-girl rock band that would shock audiences with their dark lyrics and onstage antics. While the band only lasted a few short years -- from '79 to '83 -- they would forever be icons for punk girls everywhere. Rose would have a prosperous solo-career, and a famously rocky marriage with music producer, Rex Rawlins. The marriage lasted ten-years -- ten-years filled with domestic assault allegations, hard-drinking, and affairs. They had two children, and Rose would lose custody to her husband. Finally, after so many years of hard-living and chaotic episodes, Rose would go to rehab and stay sober for fifteen years, until her untimely death from lung cancer at fifty-five. A photograph of her, with her flaming red-hair and kohl-streaked eyes, belting out one of her songs, would become a bestselling image and adorn the walls of angst-ridden teens everywhere.
Rose Feodora Jepsen and Rex Luther Rawlins with Conrad Jet and Jude Kestrel Rawlins
This was a lot of fun, thank you!
Shortly after, Jo would act in another epic film, called "Romanov," where she would meet her next love, the young director of the film. Born into a Russian family in New York, Nikita Stravinsky was ten years her junior, and some thought much too plain for such a glamorous woman. With curly auburn hair, a love of turtlenecks, and his iconic round black glasses, they seemed an odd match. But in an interview with Vogue, Jo clarified it was his heart that had attracted her, plus a common affection for animals. For their one-year anniversary Stravinsky gave her a pair of Persian Kittens, Lace and Velvet. After only being together for only two short years, Jo found out she was pregnant. A lavish wedding was planned, one that would take place in Barcelona and see the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Dean Martin in attendance. Unfortunately, it would all come to a standstill when Stravinsky would die tragically in a plane crash, leaving Jo pregnant and alone. The story of their doomed love was front-page news, and Jo would be the recipient of countless letters of condolences, well-wishes, and prayers.
The studios were not pleased to have their star pregnant and unmarried, and soon Jo would find herself relegated to bit parts and guest appearances on TV shows. She would retire officially from acting in 1960, moving back to her chateau in Provence, where she would write a bestselling biography on her life, called "Memorandum." Her later years were marked by animal activism, and charitable work -- she would auction off several of her famous dresses for a local French hospital in '65 -- and the rare interviews, mostly conducted in her 19th century style kitchen, or herb garden. In 1970 Jo Jepsen would reunite with her former love, the jazz singer Safi Mandeleau, and they would spend the rest of their lives together. Jo Jepsen would live on to just two weeks shy of her 100th birthday, surrounded by her family and loved ones, her animals, her memories, a photo of her son, lost in Cambodia, and the man who almost became her husband.
Nikita George Stravinsky and Jo Jepsen with Rose Feodora Jepsen.
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Rose Jepsen would be a media darling from the moment she was born, and they would closely follow her, from the time she was in pink dresses and bobby-socks to her troubled adolescence, which consisted of drugs, alcohol and much-older boyfriends. One of those boyfriends encouraged her to start singing. Rose would form an all-girl rock band that would shock audiences with their dark lyrics and onstage antics. While the band only lasted a few short years -- from '79 to '83 -- they would forever be icons for punk girls everywhere. Rose would have a prosperous solo-career, and a famously rocky marriage with music producer, Rex Rawlins. The marriage lasted ten-years -- ten-years filled with domestic assault allegations, hard-drinking, and affairs. They had two children, and Rose would lose custody to her husband. Finally, after so many years of hard-living and chaotic episodes, Rose would go to rehab and stay sober for fifteen years, until her untimely death from lung cancer at fifty-five. A photograph of her, with her flaming red-hair and kohl-streaked eyes, belting out one of her songs, would become a bestselling image and adorn the walls of angst-ridden teens everywhere.
Rose Feodora Jepsen and Rex Luther Rawlins with Conrad Jet and Jude Kestrel Rawlins
This was a lot of fun, thank you!
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