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Georgia Arianna, Lady Colin Campbell (''née'' Ziadie; born 17 August 1949) is a Jamaican-born writer, socialite, and television and radio personality. ==Early life== Campbell was born in Jamaica, one of four children of Michael and Gloria Ziadie. Due to a genital malformation (a fused labia and deformed clitoris) she was assumed at birth to be male, and christened George William. Though her family life was otherwise happy, Campbell has spoken and written of the struggles she faced being raised as a boy when she was physically female.〔 Her family, the Ziadies, were prominent in Jamaica, and were the descendants of six Maronite Catholic brothers who emigrated from Lebanon in the early 20th century.〔 Her mother was of English, Irish, Portuguese and Spanish descent, and her maternal great-grandmother had been a Sephardic Jew. Campbell moved to New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology. She was not able to have corrective surgery until she was 21, when her grandmother discovered what had occurred and gave her the $5,000 she needed. Campbell legally changed her name to Georgia Arianna and received a new birth certificate. "No one ever faced the knife more eagerly than I. You would have thought I was going on a wonderful cruise – which, in a way, I suppose I was," Campbell wrote in her autobiography. She had already started working as a model in New York City prior to her surgery and was considered a great beauty.〔 On 23 March 1974, after having known him for only five days, she married Lord Colin Ivar Campbell, the younger son of the eleventh Duke of Argyll. She has said of him, "He had the strongest personality of anyone I had ever met – he simply exuded strength, decisiveness and charm."〔 However their relationship quickly soured, and she left him after nine months, citing his abusiveness and drug addiction. The couple divorced after 14 months. She successfully sued several publications that claimed she was born a boy and had subsequently undergone a sex change, and accused her ex-husband of selling the untrue story for money.〔〔 In 1993, she adopted two Russian boys, Misha and Dima.〔 She lives in Kennington, London.〔 After Castle Goring was put up for sale in March 2013, Campbell said that she was the new owner of the property. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lady Colin Campbell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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