Long-time Beverly Hills resident Jacqueline Avant, 81, was shot and killed at her home in the Trousdale Estates neighborhood in the early morning of Dec. 1, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department. Avant, wife of music executive and producer Clarence Avant, was a prominent figure and philanthropist in the Beverly Hills art and culture world.
“This is a difficult day for our city,” said BHPD Chief Mark Stainbrook, only on his third day as Police Chief. According to Stainbrook, police received a call of a shooting around 2:23 a.m. Beverly Hills Fire Department paradmedics transported Avant to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
