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Barbara Stone, agent to many top models, dies at 87
By Penelope Green New York Times,Updated May 15, 2021, 3:40 p.m.
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Barbara Stone, who as an agent nurtured models including Cheryl Tiegs, Cybill Shepherd and a young Martha Stewart, died on April 26 at age 87.VIA JULIE STONE/NYT
Barbara Stone, who as an agent nurtured models including Cheryl Tiegs, Cybill Shepherd and a young Martha Stewart, died on April 26 at a hospital in Roslyn, New York, on Long Island. She was 87.
Her daughter, Julie Stone, said the cause was congestive heart failure.
It was the early 1960s, still the era of twin sets and pearls, of white gloves and white faces on the covers of magazines like Seventeen, Glamour and Vogue, when Ms. Stone was hired by Stewart Cowley, a former theatrical agent, to run his company, Stewart Models. A former cheerleader from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, she would in a short time help make Stewart the No. 2 agency in New York â the Avis, as Michael Gross, the
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