A man that looked like his body was created by NASA ,and those eyes were just smouldering and can lure you in.
I ‘m doing my best miss marple impression and trying to piece together his life, but I think I’m on the verge of surrendering my badge.
Sterling saint jacques birth date is even clouded in mystery.
But in some pictures he looks more older than his alleged age,and there is scarce information available about his family history.
You don’t even have a picture of his parents,but you get stories about how he lived in the house with a notable black actor who ‘adopted him’ but there is no paperwork, and many say it was his lover,and if so it seems like he was in a very vulnerable position in his life.
What makes me fear life is how quick it can change in a instant one moment he was the man of town on every catwalk and mingling with the stars, he even made first lady Jackie Kennedy weak on her knees, but when the era changes and the social scenes evaporated he had no means for survival, and resulted to going to Europe to do cheap modelling and forge a flailing music career that never took off, and after that you hear he lived like a recluse and supposedly died of AIDS.
What makes people doubt the circumstances of his death there is no official corroboration like death certificate family or medical testimony.
It’s just chinese whispers he said she said, and its up to you to make up what you believe.
In the 80s period AIDS was ravaging the gay community and you could see from the pictures of a person living with AIDS in their final stages it’s a site that will stain your memory.
But the last pictures of Sterling saint jacques he was the picture of health.
I feel it’s a disservice to a man labelled the world’s first black male supermodel’ that no-one is truly seeking active answers.
This man had to hustle for survival and paved the way for black models it’s just sad that he’s been largely forgotten.
I just want to know did he die or is he alive and laughing somewhere at being made into an urban legend.