The week began with very sad news: the death of the 'princess' of Marbella, Ira de Furstenberg. He was 83 years old and was in very good health, which is why his death was very unexpected among friends and family, who are devastated. The causes of this terrible loss have been revealed this Tuesday: a domestic fall at his home in Rome.
Ira often traveled to visit friends in all parts of the world: the Philippines, Mexico, Brazil… In Spain, in fact, he has a family mansion, specifically in Madrid. However, after the Covid pandemic, the princess had returned to her native Rome to settle indefinitely: “It is the universal home, the city to which I always return,” she said in one of her last interviews. . A few days ago she suffered a fall and the consequences of it have been fatal: Ira broke a rib that pierced his lung, according to Ana Rosa's program. When she started to feel bad, the internal bleeding was irreparable.
Ira's death caught his son Hubertus in Madrid. The only living descendant of the aristocrat hurriedly traveled to Rome to take care of the funeral and say goodbye to his mother, who will rest in the family pantheon.
An extraordinary life
Von Fürstenberg was the daughter of the prince Tassilo von Fürstenberg and the heiress Clara Agnelli (from the founding family of Fiat and owner of the Italian soccer club Juventus of Turin). She married the prince at the age of 15 Alfonso de Hohenlohe-Langenburggodson of Kings Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenia, and was the mother of two children: Christoph (died under strange circumstances in 2006 in a prison in Bangkok after being accused of manipulating the visa to stay in the Asian country) and Hubertus de Hohenlohe. This first marriage lasted just five years. In 1961, she married the famous playboy Francisco Pignatari in Las Vegas. They divorced in 1964.
She jumped into the media in the 1980s thanks to her role as an actress. In Spain she starred in some of the most popular films of the time, such as You Will Not Desire the Neighbor on the Fifth, with Alfredo Landa. Also very famous is the rumor that she was romantically linked to the prince. Rainier of Monaco.
A very important designer, she created more than 2,000 works of jewelry working by hand with materials such as quartz, rock crystals, porphyry, malachite and gilded silver, but also gold and jade, coral and ebony, mother-of-pearl and bronze. In addition, the aristocrat organized exhibitions of her jewelry throughout Europe and among her clients was Corinna Larssen, who bought a fruit bowl to give to King Juan Carlos.
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