Actress and one-time matriarch of the Rockefeller family Barbara Rockefeller died at her home in Arkansas on Monday.
Born Jievute Paulekiute, she was a former Miss Lithuania, thanks to her Eastern European heritage, and once sat for a Salvador Dali portrait.
Under her stage name Eva Paul, Rockefeller she was a minor player on the U.S. stage in the 1930s and 1940s and she turned to Hollywood during World War Two under her married name, Barbara Sears.
But it was her second marriage to millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller which turned her into a star socialite. Her glitzy wedding was attended by British royals the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
But the marriage didn't last long and the Rockefellers bitterly divorced in 1950. The fact that Barbara gave birth to a Rockefeller child, Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, meant she'd be connected to the important family for life.
Barbara Rockefeller was 91 when she died. Details of the cause of death have not been released.
Born Jievute Paulekiute, she was a former Miss Lithuania, thanks to her Eastern European heritage, and once sat for a Salvador Dali portrait.
Under her stage name Eva Paul, Rockefeller she was a minor player on the U.S. stage in the 1930s and 1940s and she turned to Hollywood during World War Two under her married name, Barbara Sears.
But it was her second marriage to millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller which turned her into a star socialite. Her glitzy wedding was attended by British royals the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
But the marriage didn't last long and the Rockefellers bitterly divorced in 1950. The fact that Barbara gave birth to a Rockefeller child, Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, meant she'd be connected to the important family for life.
Barbara Rockefeller was 91 when she died. Details of the cause of death have not been released.
- 5/23/2008
- WENN
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