By Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor When Nicole Avant was growing up in Beverly Hills in the 1970s and ’80s, her father, Clarence Avant, was one of the most connected and successful African American power brokers in the music industry.
He launched record labels, owned radio stations and became a key figure in politics and the civil rights movement. The Avant home was always buzzing with a stream of Hollywood and Washington insiders coming and going. “I knew that he
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