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Jojo Capece, born in New York City, is a writer and artist. In her teens, she relinquished religious school for public education citing this as the beginning of free thinking delighting her unbiased Father. Her original wish to be an actress was forbidden by her Mother and she turned her attention to art at Parsons School of Design.
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After a career in Manhattan that included Condé Nast's GLAMOUR Magazine, television, and PR Director of Fabergé, she married and moved to Istanbul, Turkey. There, she learned the Turkish language, worked on the restoration of Topkapi palace and with disadvantaged girls from Anatolia and appeared as an actress in the Mobile Oil Theater.
After three years, she returned to live in Washington, DC, where she gave birth to three children and began a PR company, Mary-Jo Campbell, Ltd. in Washington, D.C. and London. In the late 80s she divorced, moved permanently to London with her children and then Rome. Europe gave her the opportunity to continue her PR business, develop her sculpture and begin writing her first book. After twenty-three international years, Capece returned to America, remarried to the Honorable Edgar de Pue Neville-Osgood until his death, and lives in San Francisco, California.
Capece has received the distinction of Honourable Seref Uyeligi from the Turkish-American University, served as a member of President Reagan's Task Force for the Initiative on Women's Business Ownership, and was the only American advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Committee - Women Into Business.
Artistically, Capece’s works have been exhibited in Europe and America. She was the guest lecturer on Art, Bernini and Italy at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
After three years, she returned to live in Washington, DC, where she gave birth to three children and began a PR company, Mary-Jo Campbell, Ltd. in Washington, D.C. and London. In the late 80s she divorced, moved permanently to London with her children and then Rome. Europe gave her the opportunity to continue her PR business, develop her sculpture and begin writing her first book. After twenty-three international years, Capece returned to America, remarried to the Honorable Edgar de Pue Neville-Osgood until his death, and lives in San Francisco, California.
Capece has received the distinction of Honourable Seref Uyeligi from the Turkish-American University, served as a member of President Reagan's Task Force for the Initiative on Women's Business Ownership, and was the only American advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Committee - Women Into Business.
Artistically, Capece’s works have been exhibited in Europe and America. She was the guest lecturer on Art, Bernini and Italy at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
