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Share Gem dealer Jean Claude Michelou (pictured), who founded InColor magazine and served as its editor-in-chief for 17 years, died of COVID-19 on May 3, according to a LinkedIn post from the International Colored Gemstone Association (ICA). A graduate of the London School of International Business, Michelou started in the industry selling emeralds in Colombia in 1977. “I was a young executive at an American multinational corporation,” he said in an August 2020 webinar, “and I was traveling to Colombia often, and I fell really in love with emeralds, and with a Colombian woman. And I did it, I just decided that I had to leave my job, and I had to live in Colombia. ....