Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Suzanne Brent, Author of several novels and daughter of Hollywood Legend George Brent.
About Suzanne Brent:
“I was born in the summer of 1950 on August 3rd in Santa Monica California into a colorful celebrity family. My father Irish born was film actor George Brent well known for his movies with Bette Davis. My mother Janet Michael was born and raised in San Francisco California. She was of Scottish decent a popular socialite and fashion designer. My brother Barry arrived on November 26, 1954 and we lived our early childhood years in the San Fernando Valley on a thoroughbred horse ranch called “Royal Oaks Farm”. As our father began to reduce his acting and became more active in breeding and racing horses we moved to Rancho Santa Fe California. Here I became active in the world of showing horses.”
“As my teenage years arrived our family traveled extensively in Europe where I ended up living and going to school in Lausanne Switzerland. I thrived in Europe falling in love with its diverse history and classic style. On my 16th birthday we arrived at our new home in Dublin Ireland and I ultimately went onto school in Waterford Ireland. This mystical country of our father’s birth place provided a charmed time almost a step back in time with a big scoop of Downtown Abbey overtones. It left a footprint on my heart and turned me into an incurable romantic. It opened the door into my metaphysical studies from astrology numerology past lives and the fascinating mysteries of other cultures. But most of all I knew then and there I wanted to be a writer.”
“So here I am living back in La Jolla California so many years later as the door opens for me to return to my love of storytelling. My wish and hope is to bring some fun and adventure into your everyday lives with my written words. After all a little escape into the pages of a book is like a little sugar for the soul. I hope you will enjoy the written journeys ahead with my imagination in print.”
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.
After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995. He has presided in family and criminal courts. He has been a trailblazer in several ways. He was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.
Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community. When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married. In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defence of Marriage Act.
In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby. Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers. Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years. Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.
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