Carole White
Carole White is a British former model, and co-founder of Premier Model Management. Early life. White was born in Deal, Kent in 1950 but raised in Ghana. At the age of five she was sent to a boarding-school in England, then later to a convent in Belgium, an experience she described as repressive but one that helped shape her future career and fuel her interest in modelling. She became a model at the Lucy Clayton Modelling Academy, then decided this career was not for her. Instead she became a booker and in 1970 joined London model  agency Bobton's, where she stayed for seven years looking after the early modeling careers of Jo Wood, Andrea Dellal and the Bond girl Tania Mallet. Premier Model Management. In 1981, together with her brother Chris Owen, she founded Premier Model Management. Initially representing 40 girls, they ran the agency from their kitchen table. White is a campaigner against racial discrimination in fashion. In autumn 2010 Premier Model Management allowed television cameras into their offices for the filming of Channel 4's "The Model Agency". The seven part documentary followed White and her co-workers for two months revealing what  life is really like behind the scenes. It aired in the UK in February 2011. Charles Taylor trial. In 2010, White testified at the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, alleging that her former client, Naomi Campbell, had accepted blood diamonds from him. In a statement, White says that she remembers Taylor attending the dinner and saying he would like to give diamonds to Campbell.