- Is portrayed by Amy Madigan in Pollock (2000)
- Is interred in the garden of her Venice home, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, next to her dogs.
- Gave birth to a son, Sinbad, and a daughter, Peegen, whose father was her first husband Peter S. Fischer.
- Supported the careers of many important modern artists including Jackson Pollock and her second husband Max Ernst.
- Was romantically linked to Samuel Beckett.
- One of the 20th century's most noted art collectors, founding The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.
- Born to Benjamin Guggenheim (1865-1912), a Philadelphia-born businessman who died aboard RMS Titanic, and his wife Florette Seligman (1870-1937), she was the second of three daughters.
- Due to her economizing lifestyle, she just owned one phone with a coin slot at her home.
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