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EBONY: Meet The Black Bronfmans
I searched, didn't see it and if it has been posted please delete. I just picked this issue up today (along with UPTOWN magazine) so I can't wait to read
I searched, didn't see it and if it has been posted please delete. I just picked this issue up today (along with UPTOWN magazine) so I can't wait to read this story and the one on Sheila C. Johnson.
Source: Sandra Rose
Ebony magazine staff writer Lola Ogunnaike mentioned us in the August 2011 Ebony magazine featuring playwright/director Tyler Perry on the cover!
Bronfman family portrait by ANTHONY BARBOZA / KENBARBOZA.COM
TUCKED AWAY IN A DIMLY LIT corner inside Manhattan’s fabulously hip restaurant, Hotel Griffou, is where you’ll find New York socialite and philanthropist Shelly B. Bronfman (née Brewer). Her three children–Hannah, Benjamin and Vanessa–surround her for a family portrait. As the cameraman dips and dodges about the space, insisting that they “smile” and give him “more energy,” Ben lobs a knock-knock joke that bombs. “I’d laugh, but I can’t breath,” says Vanessa, who has wrapped herself in a chiffon skirt and lovely cream corset.
They look like any other close-knit clan–and in most ways they are. But in one very major way they are not: Sherry’s ex-husband and father of her brood is none other than Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group, Seagram’s heir and one of the wealthiest men in America. He also happens to be white and Jewish, facts that still manages to shock–at least in the blogosphere.
In a post titled “Who Knew Edgar Bronfman’s Kids Were Mixed?” the highly trafficked blogger Sandra Rose seemed utterly surprised to have unearthed “Black Bronfmans.” Until now, not much has been written about the former Mrs. Bronfman, who is African American, or her biracial children. Long ago, she made the decision to shelter them from the limelight, and they’ve also shied away from publicity. “I wanted them to have a childhood,” says Bronfman. “One of the greatest gifts you can give a kid is a childhood.”
Now that the kids are finding success as budding entrepreneurs, the glare of the spotlight has proven to be both unavoidable and inevitable. Rather than run from exposure, they’ve chosen to embrace it these days. Naturally it’s good for business but it also offers them an opportunity to dispel the notion that all children are born into wealth and ambitionless trust fund brats who shop all day and party all night.
”I really hate the current perception of rich kids,” says Ben, 28, a musician and eco-friendly entrepreneur. “People think Paris Hilton or Nicole Richie. But we’re not into being famous for fame’s sake. We want to be known for our accomplishments, the things that we’ve achieved. I’ve avoided that other stuff like the plague.”
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Nice photograph, they're a good-looking family. Is it true that Edgar divorced Shelly due to family pressure? I read that she even offered to convert to Judaism, but that wasn't even good enough.
The fact that they are mixed is no great surprise to me. My grandmother was a Black Jew, so i know a little something about the history.There was a time in this country, before the civil rights movement, Blacks and Jews were allies and marriage among them was not that unusual.
The fact that they are mixed is no great surprise to me. My grandmother was a Black Jew, so i know a little something about the history.There was a time in this country, before the civil rights movement, Blacks and Jews were allies and marriage among them was not that unusual.
That would be an interesting discussion indeed. The Jews and Blacks relationship before, during and after the civil rights movement. That's another thread though.
Nice photograph, they're a good-looking family. Is it true that Edgar divorced Shelly due to family pressure? I read that she even offered to convert to Judaism, but that wasn't even good enough.
Benjamin is M.I.A.'s SO/son's father.
Thanks! I could not figure out why the last name and face were so familiar!
I remember reading about Edgar Bronfman Jr. in the 90s, his father Edgar Sr. was and is a ruthless businessman who basically shoved his own brother out of their father's company, because he wanted himself and his children to have control. Anyway, Jr. remarried some white Chilean socialite two years after he divorced Sherry. Last I read, he had four children with his second wife, so along with his siblings and their children, the so-called Black Bronfmans' inheritance will be millions and not billions.
Seagram chairman admits he never approved of son's marriage to a Black woman
Edgar M. Bronfman, chairman of The Seagram Company Ltd., reveals in his memoirs that he did not want his son, Edgar Bronfman Jr., to marry a Black woman, Sherry Brewer. "I very much wanted for him to end the relationship, because I told him, all marriages are difficult enough without the added stress of totally different backgrounds," writes Bronfman in his book, Good Spirits: The Making Of A Businessman. "His children, I said, would have problems being accepted by either Black or White society," Bronfman continues. "Sherry offered to convert (to Judaism), which though well intentioned, was not the point." Bronfman explains that his son, whom he affectionately called Efer, "asked if his marriage to Sherry would make him ineligible for the Seagram presidency. Being a closet liberal, and having respect for the optimism of youth, I told him that one had nothing to do with the other."
Bronfman Jr. married Brewer in 1979, and his father held a lavish reception for the couple at his home New York City. "They had three children: Vanessa, now sixteen, Benjamin, now fourteen, and Hannah, now nine. The marriage ended in 1991, but he works hard at maintaining a good relationship with Sherry and does a superb job with their children. Ben has been bar mitzvahed, and little Hannah has started learning Hebrew," Bronfman writes. Bronfman Jr. said in a recent issue of W magazine that he is concerned that his father's book will hurt his three biracial children. But, he notes, "To some degree, they have to know these tensions exist in the world." Bronfman Jr. was named president and chief operating officer of the Seagram Company Limited in 1989 and is currently CEO of the multibillion dollar company. Under Bronfman Jr.'s leadership, Seagram purchased MCA--now Universal Studios Inc.
the pic is not showing up for me. Also, I am assuming this is about dark skinned/mixed raced Jewish kids? We have them here in Stamford Hill, London. At least just one family that I saw.
Last Saturday, whilst passing through that area, I saw a group of young boys coming from Synagogue at the bus stop ooohing over one boys bicycle and I did a double take. His skin was my shade andddddd necca was a jew. So either he was Asian or Black on one side of his famalamb or his arse tanned realllllllllllly perfectly
I have never before since seen a "darker hued Jewish man/woman". Just shows you live long enough u see everything I guess! I would love to know the story behind that tho seeing that it's so rare.
Father and son became estranged after Edgar, Jr., decided to marry Sherry Brewer, a beautiful black actress. They had met after he wrote a pop song, "Whisper in the Dark," for her friend Dionne Warwick. His father was furious. "He didn't want me to marry Sherry in the worst way," Edgar, Jr., says. "I was too young to get married. He genuinely worried how difficult an interracial marriage was. We never had a problem. I never saw Sherry as a black woman. I don't see my children that way at all." In one of the many quarrels between father and son, the son remembers erupting with the question "Are you telling me that I couldn't be president of Seagram if I married Sherry?" The father said no, but the son guessed that this was his father's true concern. "I don't care about that!" the son exclaimed.
Ann Bronfman intervened, and persuaded her son to wait a year before marrying. He did so, but his mind was unchanged, and in November of 1979 the couple eloped to New Orleans. "Mom closed ranks immediately," her son recalls. "It took Dad a little longer. He threw a cocktail party for us, but I could see he was not happy. We remained estranged."
The first of Sherry and Edgar Bronfman's three children was born in 1980, on location for "The Border," a film starring Jack Nicholson, which Bronfman was co-producing for Universal Pictures. Edgar, Jr., and his father rarely saw each other in the two years between the marriage and an invitation he sent his father and his wife to attend a screening of "The Border."
*Giving Edgar Jr. the side-eye for not seeing his wife as a "Black woman" or his children that "way". White people kill me with that BS, they think they are being complimentary, but it is insulting, there is nothing wrong with being black so why would it have to be sometime that one doesn't acknowledge?
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We have them here in Stamford Hill, London. At least just one family that I saw. 
I would love to know the story behind that tho seeing that it's so rare.
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