Celebrating the life of Sterling St. Jaques! Here dancing with Bianca Jagger.
His life needs to be made into a movie! Here is the back story I took from aidsmemorial on instagram:
Sterling St. Jacques (1957 — 1984) was a model and the “nephew/son” of the actor Raymond St. Jacques. Raymond St. Jacques in a 1969 interview discussed his plans to adopt two boys. The adoption never happened. However, in the early 1970s, he claimed to have two older sons, named Raymond and Sterling.
.Although Sterling studied at LA City College, no actual record of his birth date or birthplace can be found. He was rumored to have been born in Salt Lake City or to be either of Brazilian or Jamaican decent.
During the 1970s and early ‘80s, Sterling appeared on the covers of magazines, modeled for @halston and Hubert de @Givenchy. Givenchy was said to be Sterling’s lover who he resided with in a Swiss castle.
.As an actor, Sterling had bit parts in films such as Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) with Faye Dunaway and and the Italian movie Sistemo l’America e torno (1974).
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Together, Sterling and model @patcleveland were regulars at Studio 54. Although they appeared in public as a couple, and were briefly engaged, Sterling was widely known to be gay.
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In the 1980s, Sterling moved to Europe to try and become a nightclub DJ and advance his modeling career. Soon after, he claimed to the press he was broke and was thinking of opening a dance studio in Manhattan. This idea never came to fruition and instead he regularly appeared in both high-end (Vogue) and low-brow (Playmen) magazines and even performed Italo disco.
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It’s has been widely reported that Sterling died of AIDS in 1984. While Raymond St. Jacques — who died of AIDS seven years later in 1991 — was seemingly unaware of Sterling’s death, having stipulated that his "nephew" receive "the sum of $1.00” in his will.
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