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Jennifer Gibbons is one of the richest from Barbados. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jennifer Gibbons's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
June and Jennifer were the daughters of Caribbean immigrants Gloria and Aubrey Gibbons. The Gibbons’ moved from Barbados to the United Kingdom in the early 1960s, as part of the Windrush generation. Gloria was a housewife and Aubrey worked as a technician for the Royal Air Force. The couple had a daughter, Greta, born in 1957 and a son, David, born in 1959. In 1960 Aubrey went to stay with a relative in Coventry and soon qualified as a staff technician. Gloria followed, with Greta and David, several months later. The twins were born on 11 April 1963 at a military hospital in Aden, Yemen, where their father had been deployed. The family soon relocated—first to England, and in 1974, to Haverfordwest, Wales. The twin sisters were inseparable and their language, a sped-up Bajan Creole, made it difficult for people to understand them.
The pair were the subject of the 1986 television drama The Silent Twins, broadcast on BBC Two as part of its Screen Two series, and an Inside Story documentary Silent Twin – Without My Shadow, which aired on BBC One in September 1994. A play based on Wallace’s book, titled Speechless, debuted in London in 2011.
According to Wallace, the girls had a longstanding agreement that if one died, the other must begin to speak and live a normal life. During their stay in the hospital, they began to believe that it was necessary for one of them to die, and after much discussion, Jennifer agreed to make the sacrifice of her life. In March 1993, the twins were transferred from Broadmoor to the more open Caswell Clinic in Bridgend, Wales. On arrival Jennifer could not be roused. She was taken to the hospital where she died soon after of acute myocarditis, a sudden inflammation of the heart. There was no evidence of drugs or poison in her system, and her death remains a mystery. At the inquest, June revealed that Jennifer had been acting strangely for about a day before their release; her speech had been slurring, and she had said that she was dying. On the trip to Caswell, she had slept in June’s lap with her eyes open. On a visit a few days later, Wallace recounted that June “was in a strange mood”. She said, “I’m free at last, liberated, and at last Jennifer has given up her life for me”.
