Nina van Pallandt
Nina, Baroness van Pallandt is a Danish singer and actress.Personal life
On 11 August 1955 she married Hugo Wessel, the son of Denise Orme and Theodore W. "Tito" Wessel
On 21 September 1960, she married Frederik, Baron van Pallandt. They formed a singing duo, Nina & Frederik, and achieved worldwide popularity with their calypso-style songs. They had three children :
- Floris Nicolas Ali, Baron van Pallandt, a film writer, director and painter.
- Kirsa Eleonore Clara, Baroness van Pallandt
- Ana Maria Else, Baroness van Pallandt
The couple parted in 1969 and divorced in 1975. In the early 1990s, Frederik van Pallandt settled in the Philippines where he and his Filipino girlfriend, Susannah, were shot dead in 1994.
In the early 1970s, van Pallandt was romantically linked to Clifford Irving. In the 2006 film, The Hoax, about Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes, Van Pallandt is portrayed by Julie Delpy.
She was also married briefly to Robert Kirby, a South African satirist in the 1970s.Media appearances
Van Pallandt has appeared with Richard Gere in American Gigolo and Jeff Bridges in Cutter's Way. She also appeared in several Robert Altman films during the 1970s, including The Long Goodbye, A Wedding, and Quintet. In 1969, she sang John Barry and Hal David's song "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" in the James Bond movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby. During 1969 and the early 1970s she appeared as a guest on several episodes of The Morecambe & Wise Show for BBC television, and in the later 1988 Tales of the Unexpected episode "A Time to Die".
