Jacqueline Summers Gold CBE is the Chief Executive Officer of Gold Group International, Ann Summers, and Knickerbox.
Beryl Hunt’s daughter and the daughter of billionaire David Gold. Her father ran a publishing company that distributed sex magazines on the high street in the United Kingdom. David reportedly wept when his first wife’s child, Jacqueline, was born because he wished for a son.
She and her sister grew up in a three-story mansion in Biggin Hill, Kent, with a large garden and a swimming pool.
She appeared as the main character in the second edition of BBC Radio 4’s The House I Grew Up In in August 2007, detailing her traumatic childhood. Her parents divorced when she was twelve years old.
Dan Cunningham: Where is Jacqueline Gold’s ex-husband now?
Her ex-name husband’s is Dan Cunningham, but little is known about him. She met Dan Cunningham, a City money trader seventeen years her junior, in 2002 after a previous failed marriage with an Ann Summers dancer.
The couple split on New Year’s Day 2006 after three failed IVF attempts, but reconnected and married in 2010. They have one child as a couple.
In May 2007, Jacqueline and her younger sister Vanessa took part in the justgiving.com charity moonwalk in Hyde Park, London. A Gold nanny was charged in December 2010 with attempting to poison her with screenwash.