Renuald White — a cleaning soap opera star who broke down limitations for Black folks in modeling — has died … in accordance with considered one of his longtime associates.
Clothier Jeffrey Banks revealed the information to Girls’s Put on Every day — a preferred trend journal — Friday sharing that White died final week whereas beneath hospice care in Manhattan. He didn’t present a reason behind demise.
White rose to prominence through modeling within the Nineteen Seventies … changing into simply the second Black mannequin to seem on the duvet of GQ in 1979 — two years after Urs Althaus.
He modeled for among the greatest designers and publications through the years … together with working with Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Invoice Blass whereas showing on the duvet of Playboy in 1982.
White made the bounce to appearing in 1986 … showing in a number of episodes of “Guiding Mild” as William Reynolds. He made a number of different appearances in TV and films through the years — most lately starring within the 2017 horror film “Central Park.”
Banks remembers Renauld in an Instagram submit as “the proper gentleman and an important ambassador for my model. When first launched to my Mom she claimed immediately that he was my ‘older brother.’ I solely wished that was so.”
White’s funeral might be held subsequent month in Newark, New Jersey … his hometown. He was 80.
RIP