Ira von Fürstenberg died at the age of 83. When she was very young, she became famous with a scandalous wedding. And later to the actress and the mannequin.
Rome, Paris, New York, Marbella, St. Moritz, Monaco: These were stops in the jet-set life of Princess Ira von Fürstenberg, who lived alongside Gianni Agnelli – her uncle -, ex-Empress Soraya, Jackie Kennedy-Onassis and Maria Callas personified the glamorous, party-filled lifestyle of the 1960s and 1970s. On Tuesday night, the former princess of the high society died at the age of 83 in her native Rome.
With Gunter Sachs and James Bond star Roger Moore at après-ski in the Swiss Alps, at a film premiere in Rome with Helmut Berger, a party on the Côte d’Azur with Brigitte Bardot, a fashion show in Paris with Karl Lagerfeld or Yves Saint-Laurent or a vernissage with Andy Warhol: This was the entourage with which she surrounded herself.
She effortlessly switched from Italian to English, French, Spanish or German and also overcame the language barriers – an entrance into high society alongside the family network, well-groomed manners and financial requirements.
Scion of the high and financial nobility
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