Janee Michelle

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Birth name Geneva Mercadel
Nationality USA

Janee Michelle (born 1946), born Geneva Leona Mercadel and also known as Gee Tucker, is an American actor, model, dancer, and businessperson best known for her role in the 1974 horror film The House on Skull Mountain. Her acting and modeling career has included appearances in a variety of media, including films, television programs and advertisements, theatrical productions, and print advertisements. Meradel made her first film appearance in the 1964 short film The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes. She adopted the stage name Janee Michelle because her talent agent and the film studio both believed her birth name would be poorly received. Michelle's acting in the television series The Outcasts in 1968 was critically acclaimed, which led to several offers of film roles. Both in a 1969 episode of The Governor & J.J. and in the 1970 film Soul Soldier, Michelle acted alongside her then-husband Robert DoQui.

In 1977, Michelle was the queen in the New Orleans Mardi Gras Zulu parade. She was the first Zulu queen to wear two different gowns, both of which were designed by Bob Mackie, who had designed outfits for Cher. She divorced DoQui in 1978 and later married New Orleans politician Robert H. Tucker, Jr.; she changed her name to Gee Tucker, and became a businessperson. In 1980, the couple founded Tucker and Associates, a management consulting company that, in 1990, received a US$26 million contract with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, representing the largest contract that had ever been received by a minority-owned company in Louisiana. While working on this contract, Michelle and Tucker started a second company called Integrated Logistical Support. The couple divorced and Michelle retained ownership of Tucker and Associates while Tucker retained ownership of Integrated Logistical Support. When Tucker retired in 2008, the couple's daughter Iam Tucker replaced him as president of Integrated Logistical Support.

Biography

On July 22, 1966, at the age of twenty, Michelle married 33-year-old Albert S. Hubbard in Marin County, California. They divorced in January 1968. On April 25 of the following year, she married 35-year-old Robert DoQui in San Francisco. DoQui, whose term of endearment for Michelle was "crazy Creole chick", already had four children from a previous marriage to a woman who had died, and Michelle developed a relationship with these children. In a 1969 interview with the magazine Tan, Michelle indicated that DoQui's fashion preferences were an important factor in her clothing purchase decisions, saying, "I think a girl should dress for her husband". She also expressed her support for the breadwinner model in which men are expected to make the most income for their families and women are expected to be housewives, although Michelle argued that women should work outside the home if they want to. She went on to say that women no longer worked hard enough to retain the respect and love of their husbands, and the interviewer describes Michelle as following her own advice: "She dotes so much on her man, invests so much of herself in him, his well-being". Michelle gave birth to a son, also named Robert, in 1971. Michelle and DoQui divorced in June 1978.

Michelle later married Robert Tucker, with whom she has a daughter named Iam Christian Tucker, born January 13, 1983. Michelle exposed Iam to business very early in life; Iam sometimes slept in a crib in Michelle's office at Tucker and Associates when she was a baby, and she often observed business meetings silently while growing up. Michelle said in 1995 that motherhood had been her biggest challenge, saying, "I have this storybook image of what motherhood should be about. As a result, I'm always measuring my success against that ideal". Michelle and Tucker divorced after 19 years of marriage. Iam became a police officer, which gave Michelle insomnia, fearing for Iam's safety. In 2008, when Iam's father retired from Integrated Logistical Support, Iam replaced him as president of the company, partially because it was a safer career path that would ease Michelle's mind.

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Sam Katzman
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Robert DoQui
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James L. Berkey
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