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Jun 13, 2016 · Marriage number one (to a man named Dean Rossiter) produced a daughter, Aimee, and lasted around six years, but it was not a happy union. Jennifer suffered from mental stress to the extent that she actually checked herself into a hospital for treatment that included electro-shock therapy.
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Jennifer O'Neill was born in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, on February 20, 1948. Her father Oscar (who died 2009 at age 91) was of Irish-Spanish descent and her mother Irene (\"Rene\") was English. Whereas Elvis Presley was riding high on the fame of his hit record, \"Blue Suede Shoes\", in 1956, in 1957--when Jennifer was nine yeas old--schoolmates humi...
At age 14 she attempted suicide with her mother's sleeping pills; her parents only saw this as an attempt for attention. She woke up from a two-week coma to find that the incident had shocked her body into getting her period. She continued to ride horses every chance she could. However, at age 15 she broke her back and neck in three places when a h...
O'Neill started her highly successful modeling career in New York City and later in Paris, also when she was only 15, as a means to make money to buy her own horse. By age 15 she had also surrendered her virginity to a 20-year-old boyfriend in college--\" . . . so he would love me\"--who had given her his fraternity pin. She was a student at Dalton...
Her first film was For Love of Ivy (1968). Although it was a small start, she did attract the interest of director Howard Hawks, who cast her to star opposite John Wayne in Rio Lobo (1970). Her agent fought hard to get her an audition for the main role in the surprise sleeper, Summer of '42 (1971). This movie gave her national and international rec...
O'Neill has had her ups and downs, successes and failures, marriages and divorces, and tragedies. She married her first husband, at age 17, in 1965 and had a daughter, Aimee Rossitter. During her first marriage she checked herself into a mental hospital for treatment for mental stress and underwent electroshock therapy. O'Neill got her first divorc...
O'Neill married husband #4 in 1978--Jeff Barry, a British drummer, singer and songwriter (\"Leader of the Pack\"; \"I'm a Believer\"; \"Sugar, Sugar\"), but divorced him in 1979. O'Neill then married her manager, John Lederer, husband #5, in 1979 and he gave her a son, Reis. However, he also went through all her money. O'Neill knew at the time of t...
She amassed money again and had a son, Cooper, with husband #6, Richard A. Alan, her limo driver with whom she went on a blind date and married him in 1984. Alan was unfaithful to her with prostitutes and she divorced him in 1987 but re-married him in 1993; Alan later divorced her.
At age 44 O'Neill married husband #7, Neil L. Bonin, in December of 1992 in Travis, TX, during a cross-country car trip, O'Neill's five-year-old son serving as the best man. O'Neill had met Bonin in a New York restaurant and he was 11 years her junior; O'Neill had the marriage annulled in May of 1993 after just five months, due to fraud which induc...
O'Neill has served as chairperson for the American Cancer Society, being a breast cancer survivor herself (benign tumor), and has worked for other charitable causes, such as the March of Dimes, the National Right to Life, the Retinitis Pigmetosa Foundation and the Arthritis Foundation and the Silent No More national campaign. She is a tireless and ...
She wrote her first book, an autobiography \"Surviving Myself\", in 1999, is the author of 8 books and remains active as a motivational speaker to groups of Christian women.
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However, when O'Neill was 15 years old, the horse balked before a wall at a horse show, throwing her, causing her to fracture her neck and lower spine in three places. [12] The injury resulted in her suffering lifelong back pain. [9] O'Neill eventually dropped out of the Dalton School at age 17 to wed her first husband, IBM executive Dean Rossiter.
593 views 1 year ago Everything from Nothing. ...more. On this week of Everything From Nothing we are joined by Dean Rossiter who's recently moved back from a successful creative life in...
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Dean Rossiter is an internationally renowned artist from the U.K specialising in painting, collage and photography. Dean’s genre spanning works are underpinned by an abstract language which explores themes of communication, engagement and consumption in our digital and post truth world.
Dean Rossiter. £220.00. Supersonic Death Monkey (2023) Dean Rossiter. £220.00. Sorbet Sessions (2023) Dean Rossiter. £220.00. Dean is an emerging British artist known throughout Europe, America & Asia for his unique approachto contemporary painting and collage.
