GABRIELLE OTTERBOURNE

 

 

GABRIELLE - born 1962 - is the daughter of Jaqueline de Villeneuve and Alexander Otterbourne, the race car driver and son of Silvina Otterbourne. Her mother died in a car accident in her old Bugatti. Gabrielle was only seventeen when she left France in 1980 with a forged Concorde ticket: Paris-New York. From there she hitchhiked to Las Vegas where she became a successful showgirl. After she quit dancing, Gabrielle started designing stage clothes for rock stars and married Jimmy Dee - one of her customers - in 1983. Their first daughter Lilian was born during a trip through North Mexico one year later and two years later Gabrielle gave birth to Luna in a bungalow in the garden of the Hotel Marmont in Los Angeles.