Jo Malone son, Josh Willcox, has been linked to a pro-Palestinian Harvard student group embroiled in controversy this week.
Joanne Lesley Malone, better known as Jo Malone, is a British perfume magnate whose son, Josh Willcox, is said to be one of the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee organizers.
The group recently published a pro-Palestinian letter blaming Israel for the ongoing conflict.
The 59-year-old British perfumer Jo Malone is best known as the founder of the perfume brand Jo Malone London, founded in 1990.
However, he sold the company to its current owner, Estee Lauder Companies, in 1999, although he remained involved until 2006.
Jo Malone Son: Who Is Josh Willcox?
While working with Estée Lauder, Jo left the company to care for her son.
She said: “My only child, Josh, was five, and I wanted to be there every morning when he went to school, every drive to school, every sports day and every family dinner,” reports the Daily Mail.
“I wanted to invest my time in him, not the business.” Josh is now 22 years old and studying at Harvard.
The son of British perfume magnate Jo Malone is an organizer of Harvard College’s Palestine Solidarity Committee, one of the groups behind the letter blaming Israel for the deadly attacks by Hamas that have killed more than 1,200 people and injured thousands more.
Josh Willcox, a 22-year-old senior and member of the Ivy League school’s men’s fencing team, has written several columns for the team published by the Harvard Crimson campus newspaper.
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Malone, 60, is the only child of her husband, Gary Willcox, who in 1999 sold the perfume company Jo Malone London for millions of dollars to cosmetics giant Estée Lauder, whose son Ronald Lauder is president of the World Jewish Congress.
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Josh Willcox, 22, condemned the “brutal oppression of the Palestinians” by the “apartheid regime,” referring to Israel.
In January, Willcox wrote to Harvard’s Kennedy School about extending a scholarship to Amos Yadlin, a former senior officer in the Israeli army.
Aiming to focus on Middle Eastern languages and civilizations, Willcox accused the university of “suppressing the agents of colonial violence.”
The following month, Willcox and two other Palestine Solidarity Committee organizers, Nadine Bahour and Shraddha Joshi, wrote a dissertation condemning “the anti-Palestinian racism and institutional bias towards Israeli politics.”
The Palestine Solidarity Committee is one of 34 groups that added their names to the inflammatory letter, sparking a furious backlash.
What Happened To Josh Willcox?
Malone’s son, Josh Willcox, has been linked to a pro-Palestinian Harvard student group embroiled in controversy this week.
On Friday (October 13), Jo Malone shared a statement on the X/Twitter account explaining “that Jo Malone has not been associated with the Jo Malone London brand since 2006.”
It comes after the businessman’s son was linked to a pro-Palestinian Harvard student group implicated in a statement on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
After Willcox’s role in the PSC, listed on Harvard’s online directory of student groups, was revealed, social media users called for a boycott of Jo Malone London at X, previously on Twitter.
The luxury brand responded: “This is a tough time for everyone, and please remember that we do not condone violence.
At this point, we want to clarify that no Jo Malone person has been associated. With the Jo Malone London brand since 2006.
