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Brigit Fortesque (born 1946) is the daughter of actress Florentine Fortesque and Kings Governor Peter Feinman. She lived with her father until 1950, when here mother gained custody and changed her last name. Brigit became a singer in the late 1960s and she released 2 albums. She began modeling in the early 1970s, often working with her sister Vernaide Tremoyne.

Personal life[]

Brigit Fortesque had a son in 1966 who was given up for adoption shortly after birth. This caused a major scandal, especially as she refused to reveal the father's identity (the rumour goes the child was fathered by music composer Siegfried Wolff).

In 1976, Fortesque was briefly married to real-estate manager Timothy Bellington (1939) but he filed for divorced after just four months of marriage after discovering his wife was having an affair with his younger half-brother John.

Fortesque has been in an open relationship with sculptor and painter Charles Dernby (1952) since 1985, they have no children and they are not married.

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