Sarah Baartman, the âfirst known Black female victim of trafficking,â died on 29 December 1815. A Khoi-san woman of South Africa, she was lured to Europe with the promise of fame and riches. She was transported to England in 1810 and exhibited on stage in a cage as a freak known as the Hottentot Venus.
Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross have been married for 32 years. They were dating for 6 years after getting together in Feb 1978 and were married on 1st May 1984.
Ross is now married to actor Sam Elliott, whom she met when they co-starred in the 1978 film The Legacy (one of his first film roles was as Card Player #2 in the opening scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). The couple married in 1984 and have a daughter, Cleo Rose Elliott, born in 1984.