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Feb. 02, 1970 - April Ashley's Marriage Void Because She Is Not A Womnba': Sex change model April Ashley, yesterday heard a divorce court judge rule that she is not a women. Mr. Justice Ormond said, she is not a woman for the purposes of marriage, but is a biological male has been so soccer birth'. The judge ruled that Miss Ashley's marriage Mr.Arthur Cameron Corbett, 50-year old hair to Lord Rowallan, was Void. Miss Ashley was born George Jamieson in Liverpool in 1935 and underwent a sex-change operation by a Casablanca doctor in 1960. Her marriage to Mr. Corbett, son of a former Chief Scout, was in Gibraltar in September, 1963. Mr. Justice Ormorod - who is also a doctor - said in his written judgement that he was the first English judge called upon to decide an individual's sex. Photo Shows A picture taken in 1962 showing April Ashley when she appeared at the Astor Club in the West End doing a song and dance act
