Nicole Avant Remembers Late Mother Jacqueline, Opens Children and Family Center in Her Name
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Nicole Avant and her family have lived through the unthinkable.
Her mother, 81-year-old philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, was fatally shot in her Beverly Hills home during a home invasion on Dec.
1, 2021. Jacqueline’s husband, music industry legend Clarence Avant, was also home at the time. “My faith has kept me stable,” Nicole told me Friday morning at the opening of the Jacqueline Avant Children and Family Center at the MLK Medical Campus in the Watts-Willowbrook community. “But it is true that life does begin again and you will smile again.
You have to believe that even if you don’t see how that can be, you have to act as if.” Jacqueline’s killer was sentenced last year to 190 years to life in prison.
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