- Competed in the 1952 or 1956 (exact year unknown) Summer Olympics as part of the Yugoslavian Swimming Team.
- Former Miss Yugoslavia.
- Described as 'The Yugoslavian Bombshell' in promotional material for The Fiend of Dope Island (1960).
- Fluent in six languages.
- Was a junior swimming champion at age 14.
- Daughter of a Turkish father and an Italian mother. Her father was the governor of the island of Lastovo, in the Adriatic Sea.
- Helped by her American aunt, she entered the U.S.A. in 1955, along with her mother, as a political refugee seeking asylum.
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