[6] His Fernandez clan descended from a Portuguese-Brazilian slave trader who raised a family with an African wife in Lagos in the early 19th century.
[7] Fernandez's father had four earlier unions;[8] his third wife was white American Barbara Joyce[9] who married him in 1961 while they were living in Virginia, bore him three children in the United States, separated from him in 1984 or early 1985, then filed for divorce in 1987.
[14] After the birth of Fernandez, the family lived a short while in the Hotel Ritz Paris, then moved to the Chateau de Bois-Feuillette in Pontpoint.
[15] Another move took her to New York, her father buying the historic All View Estate at the southern tip of Premium Point, New Rochelle.
[2][16] Many world figures visited her home on business with her father, including Pope John Paul II, George H. W. Bush, Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela and Mobutu Sese Seko.
[19][20] She inherited her mother's collection of couture clothing including multiple caftans, one by Jean-Paul Gaultier, and other items by Givenchy, Chanel, Oscar de la Renta and more.
She went to concerts and got to know the members of punk group Forever the Sickest Kids, and Gabe Saporta, the leader and singer of the electro-pop band Cobra Starship.
EDM artist Draper, also an alumnus of Oxford Brookes University, featured Madame Luxe singing on his dubstep song "Painting the Sky", uploaded to SoundCloud in June 2011.
[23] The song was included on Draper's self-titled EP, released in February 2012 on the Drop Dead label run by Bring Me the Horizon frontman Oliver Sykes.
The video contrasted the upbeat, poppy music with fictional scenes of Fernandez partying with boys and cocaine, cooking meth, and playing Russian Roulette, fitted with a prosthetic pregnant belly as if she was in the last months of pregnancy.
The "sexually charged" song has lyrics suggesting fellatio, and at the end a male voice "disses" Kim Kardashian and her family.