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Hello, welcome to If Jewels Could Talk. I'm Carol Wilson, the Horse of Jewelry.

And I'm very delighted to have my guest today and Exeter Jones.

Now, in some newspapers, Anne is often described as a New York socialite, but this does her a great disservice.

Anne Dexter Jones is a jewelry designer of note with the strong, aesthetic, rock and roll vibe.

She has this sort of unique, edgy, rock and roll aesthetic. She's raised

to brood of five high-achieving successful children who've all been inspired by her artistic

style in their various fields, which includes 10-time Grammy award-winning and Oscar-winning

DJ record producer, songwriter and composer Mark Ronson,

Samantha Ronson and Alexander Dexter Jones both acclaimed international DJs,

Charlotte Ronson, the fashion designer and Annabelle Dexter Jones, the actress and director.

You probably know her best from Succession and American Horror Story. She's a philanthropist, she practices Reiki, she's been amused for two

of the greatest love songs ever written by her husband, Mick Jones, of the rock band

foreigner. She runs her own business in New York. She's a writer and

journalist who's now embarking on her memoir, which she's writing herself, of course. So I think

that's more than a socialite, quite frankly. And thank you for joining us today.

My pleasure. And thank you for inviting me. And today we're going to have a little sneak of what's going to come out in this memoir as well as the jewellery.

So I wanted to talk first of all because I've had a little read of the opening chapters

and there was a sort of pivotal moment that your father introduced to the family that really had a major effect on your life.

So can you describe that to us? What happened?

Yes, when my father called us into the breakfast room one day, his five children, I'm one of five, and I'm number two in the life. And he said, as

children, I have something to tell you. Please sit around the breakfast table. And I was 11 years

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