Rome. The Italian princess, actress and jewelry designer Ira von Fürstenberg, one of the representatives of the international jet set of the 60s and 70s and with a great relationship with Marbella and Spain, died this Monday in his hometown of Rome at the age of 83.
She was the daughter of the German Prince Tassilo Fürstenberg and Clara Agnelli, sister of Fiat boss Gianni Agnelli, and married the Spanish Prince Alfonso de Hohenlohe-Langenburg, founder of the Marbella Club, in Venice in 1955 when she was just 15, after the bride had received a papal dispensation given his young age.
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After the magnificent wedding with a 16-day reception that was a world-class social event, they settled in Mexico, where Alfonso took over the management of the Volkswagen factory, in which the family was a shareholder, and where their children Christoph were born . and Hubertus.
A marriage that ended with a scandalous accusation of adultery by the Prince of Hohenlohe after she discovered her relationship with Brazilian millionaire Francisco Matarazzo Pignatari, whom she later married in a three-year marriage in 1961.
The Spanish prince withdrew the adultery charges in exchange for custody of his children, in 1969 Ira von Fürstenberg obtained the annulment of his first marriage and after his divorce from Pignatari he never married again.
According to the Italian edition of Vanity Fair magazine, his great friends included the actress Audrey Hepbrum and the artists Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol.
Her real name was Virginia Carolina Theresa Pancrazia. At just over 25 years old, it was producer Dino de Laurentis who suggested Ira enter the world of cinema.
She appeared in thirty films and was directed, among others, by Alberto Lattuada in “Matchless” (“Sin rival”, 1967) and by Mario Bava in “5 bambole per la luna d' August” (“Five Dolls for the August Moon”) ', 1970) and Jean Negulesco in 'Hello-Goodbye' (1970).
“Cinema has always been his great passion and his regret,” explained Pascal Vicedomini, artistic director of Capri Hollywood, who presented him with the Lifetime Achievement Award during the film festival last October. Cinema in this city in southern Italy.
She then devoted herself to fashion and beauty, was president of Germaine Monteil and the Valentino perfume line, also devoted herself to antiques in her Geneva shop and was a jewelry designer. In 1992, she founded her own fashion house with a line of clothing, accessories and home furniture.
From a young age she was a model for the house of Emilio Pucci and other brands, was immortalized by the greatest photographers, including Helmut Newton, and worked with Diane Vreeland, journalist and editor of Vogue magazine.
During her life she lived in Brazil, Paris, Geneva, London, Rome and had bought a house in Madrid shortly before the Corona crisis, while she was known for her summers in Marbella, where she was a regular at jet parties. Sentence.