Barbara Joan Estelle Amiel, Lady Black of Crossharbour (born December 4, 1940) is a British-Canadian journalist, writer, and socialite. She is also the wife of former media baron Conrad Black, who is currently imprisoned for mail fraud and obstruction of justice.
Amiel was born into a Jewish family in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. Her parents divorced when she was eight, after her father, Harold, left her mother for another woman. Her mother s...
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Barbara Joan Estelle Amiel, Lady Black of Crossharbour (born December 4, 1940) is a British-Canadian journalist, writer, and socialite. She is also the wife of former media baron Conrad Black, who is currently imprisoned for mail fraud and obstruction of justice.
Amiel was born into a Jewish family in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. Her parents divorced when she was eight, after her father, Harold, left her mother for another woman. Her mother subsequently remarried and in November, 1952 the couple emigrated with Barbara, her sister and half-brother, to Hamilton, Ontario. Her father committed suicide in 1956.
While in England, Amiel attended North London Collegiate School in Canons Park, Edgware, Greater London, an independent girls' school founded by Frances Mary Buss in 1850. Family difficulties--including some financial hardship---during the early years in Canada, precipitated her living independently for periods of time during her adolescence during which she held a variety of...
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