Who's the REAL Daughter of Florence Ballard ?
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Who's the REAL daughter of Florence Ballard from the Supremes?
AKASHI MEDIA ONLINE
Jan 10
For the past few years on social media there has been some controversy on Nicole Renee Ballard who is the daughter of Florence Ballard in Detroit.
There is another woman who claims to be the firstborn twin daughter of the late Supreme Florence Ballard as well and her name is also Nichole Rosalyn Elaine (Rene) Ballard-Jones aka VARIETY Chenevert who is the original creator of the hit films Set It Off and Booty Call.
Florence Ballard and her daughter NICHOLE Rene Ballard.
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Who is also from Detroit born December 17, 1967 but moved from Motown in 1993 to Los Angeles to pursue her film career.
Nichole " Rosalyn" Elaine Ballard-Jones re-invented herself and gave herself a new name in 1992 and renamed herself as Variety Chenevert before she even left Detroit to pursue a film career in Hollywood.
Variety Chenevert claims that she is now coming out to set the record straight that she was unaware of the news reports done on E! Entertainment Tonight in 1995 and in 2007. Even the most recent news reports on The Reelz she claims is invalid.
Now there are family members in Detroit who claims that Variety Chenevert aka NICHOLE Ballard-Jones is not the real daughter of Florence Ballard but the one name Nicole Ballard is.
NICHOLE Rene (Rosalyn Elaine) Ballard age 10 and age 25. Photo Courtesy of AKASHI MEDIA.
Flo Ballard and her firstborn daughter Nichole Ballard-Jones.
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NICHOLE Rene Ballard (Rosalyn Elaine) aka Variety Chenevert Age 50 and age 7.
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But according to Florence Ballard's late sister Maxine Jenkins published novel Florence Ballard Rags to Riches and Riches Back to Rags the photograph of Variety Chenevert at the age of 10 in a group family photo she took at her home she is indeed her sister Florence Ballard daughter known as Nichole Rene Ballard.
Florence Ballard sister Maxine Jenkins.
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Variety Chenevert aka NICHOLE Ballard-Jones has a novel coming out called Secrets Kept from Pinehurst to Havenhurst which is about her life story growing up as a child of a star and being around all the family members who were also Stars besides her mother Florence Ballard but her life with Florence Ballard first cousin Marlene Scott a fellow Primettes before the Supremes and her Aunt Barbara who was also a Primettes.
Discrepancies of their birthdays Nicole Ballard born October 18, 1968 and Nichole Rene Ballard-Jones born December 17, 1967 both are supposed to be the twin of Michelle Ballard Chapman.
Nichole Ballard-Jones claims after her mother Florence Ballard funeral she and her twin Michelle Denise were separated the same of her funeral and afterwards. Nichole said she was raised on Pinehurst St in Detroit while Michelle and her younger sister Lisa went to go live in another home with their grandmother.
Nichole Ballard-Jones aka VARIETY Chenevert she never saw her sisters that often or continued living with them after their mother passing.
The home on Pinehurst Street in Detroit is where the Supremes came together for the holidays and family reunions and family members such as Florence Maxine Jenkins, Deidre "Dee Dee" Jenkins Brown and Hank Ballard, Gary Madison Sr. aka Charlie Brown a radio personality in Columbus, Ohio a Family of Entertainers just like the Jackson's and the Slyvers and Debarge.
The Primettes with Diana Ross, Aunt Barbara on left, My mom Florence Ballard Right and Mary Wilson Center.
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Our Rock & Roll Hall of Famer cousin Hank Ballard aka John Henry.
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Our Cousin Gary "Charlie Brown " Madison Sr. An Columbus, OH Radio Personality.
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Our Aunt Dee Dee Jenkins-Brown is the widow of the late Father of Soul James Brown. Variety Chenevert aka NICHOLE Ballard-Jones who the family called Rosalyn grew up with The Primettes & The Supremes, The Jackson Five, Gary Madison Sr. "Charlie Brown", Hank Ballard, Novelist Terry McMillan because they are/were all blood related family. Variety Chenevert aka Nichole Rosalyn Elaine (Rene) Ballard said growing up around all these successful legends that are "My People" made me want to be somebody and proud to acknowledge these are bloodline relatives.
Our Cousin the Phenomenal Novelist Terry McMillan.
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So if Anybody wants to do a movie on my family again I want all that I mentioned included in the film and of course their own individual films.
Aunt Deidre " Dee Dee " & Uncle James Brown
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But according to Nicole Ballard she herself didn't grow up with any of these people or even know them. Her family is her twin Michelle Denise Ballard Chapman and Lisa Ballard Chapman. But what Variety Chenevert aka Nichole Ballard found hard to believe is how did Michelle Denise Ballard Chapman outgrow her supposedly twin Nicole Renee Chapman Ballard in height by six inches? Because when Nichole Rosalyn Elaine ( Rene) Ballard aka Variety Chenevert were kids and when she was in Michelle's life she said they were Always the same size and height and dressed alike. She said every outfit in her closet we're twin outfits. She said even til this day although Michelle has not seen her in years, Variety exclaims that they both still pick out similar outfits.
Michelle Ballard Chapman twin of Nichole Ballard on the left and Lisa Ballard Chapman left and Nicole Ballard middle.
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Florence Ballard holding newborn twins Nichole Rene and Michelle Denise.
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Michelle Denise on the left and Nichole Rene (Rosalyn Elaine) on the right aka Variety Chenevert. Back then when Nichole and Michelle were the same size and height as twins at age 7.
Variety Chenevert relocated with her then 3 year old daughter Kristian-Chanel Debarge to Los Angeles in July of 1993 and she lived with Deborah Ann Steele for two weeks until she found her own place
but she shared a five bedroom mini mansion in Torrance, CA with her other sisters Yvonne Monique Jones and Eboni Jones.
Monique and Eboni Jones were also born and raised in Detroit and relocated to California with their mother Deborah Jones and Nichole Rosalyn Elaine (Rene) Ballard stepmom who was a Detroit Supermodel in the 1970s
Deborah Jones who the character Deena Jones in Dream Girls was written about and played by Beyonce Knowles.
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Deborah Jones who the character Deena Jones in Dream Girls was written about and played by Beyonce Knowles.
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Deborah Jones-Yeboah and Tina Knowles-Lawson. Beyonce Knowles-Carter mother at Deborah's home in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.
Deborah Jones is the widow of Lawrence Jones aka Tommy Chapman. She and Florence Ballard were friends but Flo and knew of the relationship between Deborah and Lawrence and was okay with it because they were no longer together. Together they had Yvonne Monique Jones and Eboni Jones.
Yvonne Monique Jones. NICHOLE Rosalyn Elaine (Rene) Ballard- Jones aka Variety Chenevert sister. Photo Courtesy of AKASHI MEDIA
Eboni Jones. NICHOLE Rosalyn Elaine ( Rene) Ballard aka Variety Chenevert sister.
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Nichelle Aurelia Jones. NICHOLE Rosalyn Elaine (Rene) Ballard-Jones aka Variety Chenevert sister.
Marlene Scott also dated Lawrence Jones as a common-law relationship and together had Nichelle Aurelia Jones "Boo Boo".
Nichole Ballard aka Variety Chenevert became the original creator of the blockbuster films Set It Off and Booty Call which were her class assignments at UCLA Extension in 1994. Her representative back then was Takashi Bufford.
Her films made over $80 million dollars worldwide in two years once she entered film school in 1994 at UCLA Extension a year later after she left Detroit in 1993. Set It Off was her first to be released in 1995 and Booty Call followed in 1996.
The film about Florence Ballard in Detroit and never got made because it was a scam and fraud involved but a new production attempted is in the works.
Variety Chenevert aka NICHOLE Ballard-Jones said if her mother Florence Ballard knew her baby girl would make $80 million dollars with writing hit films Set It Off and Booty Call and be able to take care of her family. She thinks she would have had a different mind set.
But her mother Flo once told her along with their father Lawrence Jones Nichole is the oldest and she would lead her sisters in the right direction. Because she offered her piggy bank when her parents and sisters became homeless.
Variety Chenevert aka Nichole Rosalyn Elaine (Rene) Ballard said as far as the lost trust fund goes. Her father gave her $16,000 in cash and left it in her bedroom in a brown paper bag and told her to take care of her mother and that he may not be coming back. She begged her father to stay but he said he had to leave it was for the best. She took the money and told her Aunt Helen Scott and her mother Florence Ballard first cousin Marlene Scott about her $16,000 stash cash and her aunt Helen Scott took her to the bank and opened her a trust fund bank account for minors in her name and Helen Scott as custodian and Marlene Scott at Manufacturer Bank in Detroit which years later became Comerica Bank.
Variety Chenevert aka Nichole Rene Ballard said had the FAKE Nicole Ballard in Detroit knew this or was Really Her she would have known that her father gave her the money and would not had been on television with a fake story but then again.
She was never on welfare at the time of the interview with her sisters Michelle and Lisa Ballard Chapman and she knew nothing about the interview because she didn't see it and no one in the family informed her nor was she on social media and that's the reason why she wants to clean up the media and the stories and is coming out or has come out on what really took place. She also said she has been residing in California since 1993 two years prior the first homeless newscast of her sisters 1995 E! Entertainment interview.
She understands that Nicole Ballard has been in the media in Detroit with Mary Wilson and Michelle and Lisa however she is still not her Nichole Rene Ballard aka Variety Chenevert, Florence Ballard firstborn twin daughter. Besides her daddy gave her the money and it was her money in the first place. So to go snooping and looking for what was hers was illegal but she dies know that Diana Ross did set up a trust fund for $30,000 she is very aware of that but happened to that separate trust fund she has no idea accept for again her Aunt Helen was the guardian of that trust fund as well but she is now deceased and died 2016 in Detroit, MI at her home from pancreatic cancer. Helen Scott held the family reunions over the years at her home but according to Nicole Renee Ballard Chapman she never met or even knew Helen Scott and the family or relatives or even Nichole Ballard.
Diana Ross.
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Her parents Florence Ballard and her father Lawrence Jones didn't keep money in the bank that's why their were piggy banks full of money and money always in the home.
Most of her family members kept money in Kathy Candy tin cans, shoes, socks, bras on their bodies, tvs you name it. In their eyes banks were for crooks. Nichole Rene Ballard aka Variety Chenevert also stated that her relatives are/were multi-cultural with East Indian, Native American, African, East Asian and Eskimo and other ethnicities that she was exposed to entrepreneurship at a young age as well.
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Lawrence Jones aka Tommy Chapman
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Marlene Scott, Nichole Rosalyn Elaine (Rene) Ballard's Guardian and first cousin and her mother Florence Ballard first cousin and who also use to be in the group The Primettes with Florence Ballard, Diana Ross and Barbara Patterson.
The home that Michelle Chapman Ballard, Nicole Renee Chapman Ballard and Lisa Ballard Chapman that they were walking from in the winter during their 1995 homeless welfare E News interview was Marlene's Scott home where Nichole Ballard aka Variety Chenevert grew up in on Wyoming St and is the home she purchase with the money her father gave Nichole aka Variety Chenevert in Detroit, MI.
Nichole Rosalyn Elaine (Rene) Ballard aka Variety Chenevert said that during the 1995 that was Marlene Scott sitting on the side of Nicole Ballard Chapman off camera in Marlene's then Ford SUV. Someone Nicole Renee Ballard Chapman claims she doesn't know.
In 1995 Variety Chenevert aka NICHOLE Ballard released her first film with her producer Takashi Bufford in Los Angeles and said this is why she has come forward to correct false media details that the Nicole Ballard Chapman in Detroit is not her Nichole Rene Ballard the firstborn daughter of Florence Ballard now known as Variety Chenevert. She said she wasn't informed of their hardship and had she been she would have helped her sisters out and any other relatives or family that may have needed it. Because her first film made over $40 million dollars.
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Nichole Ballard-Jones aka Variety Chenevert half sister Nichelle Jones and their father Lawrence Jones sister Carmen Jones and Variety's daughter Kristian on Nichelle's prom day.
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Flo Ballard's brother the late Percy who was at her funeral with her daughter's Nichole Rene and Michelle Denise Ballard who was in the newspaper in the place of the their father Lawrence Jones aka Tommy Chapman who died six months before Florence Ballard. He helped raise Nichole with other relatives after their parents deaths.
It's a big possiblity that Variety Chenevert aka Nichole Rosalyn Elaine (Rene) Ballard may even be related to the Empire Star Taraji Henson because they share similar DNA Ancestry such as Eskimo and African traits and the Ballard bloodline, they even favored as children. Taraji Henson grandfather Willie Ballard looks like Nichole Ballard's grandfather Jesse Ballard.
Nichole Rene (Rosalyn Elaine) Ballard aka Variety Chenevert at age 7 with her mother Flo Ballard and sisters Michelle and Lisa.
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Taraji as a child and her mother.
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Taraji P. Henson grandfather Willie Ballard.
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Nichole Rene Ballard maternal grandfather Jesse Ballard and maternal grandmother Lurlee Ballard.
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Variety Chenevert aka Nichole Ballard said she has vivid recollection of her childhood and those were the Good Ole Days.
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Me and Mom. Flo and Nichole Rosalyn Elaine (Rene) Ballard.
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My stepmother Deborah Jones-Yeboah and Tina Lawson.
