Renauld White, Groundbreaking Black Model and ‘Guiding Light’ Actor, Dies at 80

In 1979, he became just the second Black model to appear on the cover of GQ, going on to work with top designers worldwide

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Renauld White, who starred on the soap opera then known as “The Guiding Light” for two years and broke racial barriers as only the second Black model to appear on the cover of GQ, died on June 26. He’d been in hospice care at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. White was 80 years old.

Fashon designer Jeffrey Banks, a friend of White’s, shared the news with Women’s Wear Daily. More information about the cause of White’s death was not immediately available.

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