April Ashley - Definition and Overview

April Ashley (born April 25, 1935, as 'George Jamieson') is a British model and actress. She was famously outed as a transsexual by the British press in 1961.

After an unhappy childhood, she moved to Paris in the 1950s and joined the cast of Cabaret. She had an early sex reassignment procedure in 1960, in Casablanca.

After moving back to England, she became a succesful model, but was outed by the People newspaper in 1961, causing scandal. She married Arthur Corbett in 1963, but the marriage did not last, and in 1970 he successfully sought to have the marriage annulled on the grounds that she had been born male, which set the precedent for the legal status of transsexuals in the United Kingdom until the Gender Recognition Act 2004 comes into force.

April now lives in San Diego, California.

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