Lady Susan Renouf has cancer: report February 10, 2013 - 7:40AM 95 reading now Lady Susan Renouf appearing in a TV advertising campaign for Sheridan sheets in 1968, after which she was the focus of a minor political scandal. Australian socialite Susan Renouf has been diagnosed with cancer. The colourful identity, who once dominated fashionable society and has remained a social pages fixture since the 1960s, has been receiving weekly chemotherapy treatment at a private Melbourne hospital. The 70-year-old was diagnosed four weeks ago with the cancer, and reports say the illness is already at a progressed stage. Andrew Peacock as the new member for Kooyong looking through best wishes telegrams with his then-wife Renouf in1966.