Jean-Claude Baker
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Jean-Claude Baker, born Jean-Claude Julien Léon Tronville in Dijon, France, is an American restaurateur. He met the American-born French entertainer Josephine Baker when he was working as a bellhop in Paris, at the age of fourteen, in 1958.[1] He then became the last of twelve children adopted into Baker's Rainbow Family.[2][3][4] He first came to the United States on Josephine Baker's final American tour in 1973. His career has included being a model, nightclub owner, recording artist, ACE Award-winning television producer, popular author of Josephine: The Hungry Heart, and restaurateur.
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- ^ http://www.observer.com/node/42173
- ^ Lance Loud, "Mommie Gayest", The Advocate, March 22, 1994.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/11/theater/transforming-theater-row-an-unlikely-urban-drama-heads-for-a-happy-ending.html?pagewanted=all
- ^ http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/1999/05/06/1999-05-06_reclaiming_a_bit_of_showbiz_.html
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