How Old Is Michele Bennett? Michele Bennett Birthday
Michele Bennett was born on January 15, 1950 and is 74 years old now.
Birthday: January 15, 1950
How Old - Age: 74
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Michele Bennett - Biography
Michele Bennett was INXS singer Michael Hutchence`s longtime girlfriend. According to Michael`s sister Tina`s biography of Michael, Michele was the love of his life. Michele was a model who appeared in and produced INXS music videos. Michele became serious about her own ambitions in the business, which Michael apparently could not take seriously. They remained friends after they split, with Michele leaving him to pursue producing. Her producing credits include "Chopper" and "The Magician" among others. On the night he died, Michael placed two calls to Michele, asking to talk. Michele continues to be involved in the movie business and with INXS`s legacy.
Although Bennett met Jean‑Claude Duvalier in high school, the pair did not become romantically engaged until ten years later. In 1980, Bennett married President Duvalier. Their wedding, Haiti's social event of the decade, cost an unprecedented US$ 2 million and was received enthusiastically by the majority of Haitians. Michèle Duvalier at first endeared herself to the population by distributing clothes and food to the needy as well as opening several medical clinics and schools for the poor.
In the six weeks following the wedding, Michèle and Jean‑Claude toured Haiti, turning up unannounced at meetings, marketplaces, and other gathering places, which garnered “approving glances and words most everywhere”. On a visit to Haiti, Mother Teresa remarked that she had “never seen the poor people being so familiar with their head of state as they were with [Michèle]”. With Jean‑Claude, Michèle had her third and fourth children: Nicolas and Anya.
The marriage represented a symbolic alliance with the mulatto elite, the families Jean‑Claude’s father had opposed. This resulted in her husband's mother, Simone Duvalier, who opposed the match, being sidelined politically, which in turn created new factional alliances within the ruling group since the Duvalierist Old Guard opined that the new First Lady's power appeared to exceed her husband's. While Jean‑Claude often dozed through Cabinet meetings, his wife, frustrated at his political ineptitude, reprimanded ministers herself.
