Janee Michelle

Business After divorcing DoQui in 1978, a management consulting company.

Michelle purchased Sophie's Gelato in New Orleans, which she operates.

Awards In 1991, Michelle was recognized as a YWCA Role Model. The National Council of Negro Women named her one of five community leaders of the year in 1995. They divorced in January 1968.

On April 25 of the following year, she married 35-year-old Robert DoQui in San Francisco. DoQui, whose term of endearment for Michelle was "crazy Creole chick", She also expressed her support for the breadwinner model in which men are expected to make the most income for their families and women are expected to be housewives, although Michelle argued that women should work outside the home if they want to. She went on to say that women no longer worked hard enough to retain the respect and love of their husbands, and the interviewer describes Michelle as following her own advice: "She dotes so much on her man, invests so much of herself in him, his well-being".

Having met Robert Tucker when her cousin Chuck asked her to appear in the 1977 Zulu parade, Michelle eventually started dating Tucker and they married in 1979. Michelle and Tucker divorced after nineteen years of marriage.

Filmography Film Title Year Role Notes The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes 1964 Club Patron Michelle had a non-speaking role in this Golden Globe Award-winning short film. Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion 1965 Girl in Pit The Love-Ins 1967 Lamelle Soul Soldier 1970 Julie Brown Michelle is the leading lady in this film and shares nude sex scenes with Robert DoQui. The Mephisto Waltz 1970 Agency Chief's Girlfriend Scream Blacula Scream 1973 Gloria This film is the sequel to Blacula. The House on Skull Mountain 1974 Lorena Christophe This role is the one for which Michelle is best known.

Television Title Episode Year Role Notes Mr. Novak Love, American Style "Love and the Uncoupled Couple" 1970 Dessie Smith Michelle starred in this episode with Greg Morris. Bewitched "Sisters at Heart" 1970 Dorothy Wilson Sanford and Son "Tower Power" 1974 Sandra In the Heat of the Night "A Necessary Evil" 1988 Arlene Jeffson Star-Crossed "An Old Accustom'd Feast" 2014 Vendor