Jean-Claude Baker
Jean-Claude Baker (born Jean-Claude Julien Léon Tronville, April 18, 1943 – January 15, 2015)[1] was a French-American restaurateur.
Baker was born in Dijon, France. He met U.S.-born French entertainer Josephine Baker while he was working as a bellhop in Paris at the age of fourteen.[2] He was not officially one of the Rainbow Tribe, he came to Baker later in life. While he aggrandized Baker, he was not one of the Rainbow children. .[2][3]
Baker was bisexual.[2]
In 1994 he co-authored a biography of Josephine Baker, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, described as a "shocking look into the star's seriously whitewashed past".[2]
Baker died at his home in East Hampton, New York on January 15, 2015, of an apparent suicide.[4] He was 71.
References
- ↑ Photo Flashback: Remembering Jean-Claude Baker
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Loud, Lance, "Mommie Gayest", The Advocate, March 22, 1994.
- ↑ New York Daily News coverage of Jean-Claude Baker,[dead link] May 6, 1999
- ↑ Jean-Claude Baker Dies at 71; Restaurateur Honored a Chanteuse
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