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    What to know about Clarence Avant, husband of the late Jacqueline Avant

    by Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times Dec 01, 2021 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES — Clarence Avant is a legend in the entertainment industry, known by many as the “Black Godfather,” a revered but limelight-shunning nonagenarian. And he was married for 54 years to Jacqueline “Jackie” Avant, who was fatally shot early Wednesday by suspects at their Beverly Hills home.

    As lionized as he is, including in a 2019 documentary, Clarence Avant is not a household name to many outside the worlds of music, sports, film and politics.

    The 90-year-old music executive, who was inducted into

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