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| Name |
Afdera Franchetti |
| Prefix |
Countess |
| Birth |
8 Jul 1931 |
Preganziol, Treviso, Veneto, Italia  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
10 Sep 2011 |
BOUNT |
| FamilySearch ID |
LRWC-NBG |
| Death |
South Kensington, Middlesex, England |
| Person ID |
I173297 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Baron Raimondo Nanuk Franchetti, b. 30 Jan 1889, Florence, Firenze, Toscana, Italia d. 7 Aug 1935, Heliopolis, Cairo, Muhafazat al Qahirah, Miṣr (Age 46 years) |
| Mother |
Bianca Maria Stella Rocca, b. 29 Dec 1901, Venice, Venezia, Veneto, Italia d. 4 May 1958, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italia (Age 56 years) |
| Family ID |
F43088 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Howard Francis Taylor, b. 29 Jun 1929, London, Middlesex, England d. 31 Aug 2020, New Mexico, United States (Age 91 years) |
| Marriage |
1954 |
| Divorce |
Yes, date unknown |
| Divorced |
1957 |
| Family ID |
F43087 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
16 Jan 2025 |
| Family 2 |
Henry Jaynes Fonda, b. 16 May 1905, Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States d. 12 Aug 1982, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States (Age 77 years) |
| Marriage |
9 Mar 1957 |
New York, United States |
| Divorce |
Yes, date unknown |
| Divorced |
1961 |
| Family ID |
F33972 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
16 Jan 2025 |
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| Notes |
- Afdera Franchetti (born 8 July 1931) is an Italian baroness, descended f r om an old Jewish family of Venice which intermarried with the Rothschi l d family and who eventually converted to Roman Catholicism. She is mos t f amous for being the fourth wife of American actor Henry Fonda.
Family
The Italian Jewish Franchetti family, from the 18th century, was one o f t he wealthiest families in the Mediterranean. Afdera Franchetti was th e da ughter of Baron Raimondo Franchetti, a famous explorer who travele d exten sively in Ethiopia and charted hitherto unexplored territories (D ancalia ) during the 1920s. On his return from an expedition to Ethiopia , his pla ne exploded over Cairo in 1935. Raimondo's grandmother was Sar a Louise d e Rothschild (1834–1924). Her brother, the Baron Raimondo Nanu k Franchett i, was a friend of author Ernest Hemingway, who hunted with h im in Caorl e Lagoon.
Marriage to Howard Taylor and Henry Fonda
Afdera Franchetti was married to Howard Taylor from 1954 to 1957. They m e t in Italy on a vacation. Afdera Franchetti was married to Henry Fond a (* 1905) from 1957 to 1961; they were introduced to each other by Audre y Hep burn in Italy while he was filming War and Peace with Audrey and Me l Ferr er. Audrey had been struggling with infertility, and had sought ad vice fr om Afdera's sister, Simba. When she became pregnant straight away , she fe lt a certain loyalty to the Franchetti Family. She befriended Af dera, whi ch resulted in her meeting with Henry. Afdera was roughly 25 ye ars old wh en she married Fonda; his eldest child, Jane, was 18 years old .
Later life
She was once arrested for drug smuggling, as detailed in her autobiograp h y, for one "joint", which she brought in her luggage for a friend witho u t knowing that possession of this small amount of marijuana was a serio u s offence. The "friend" had a parcel delivered to her at her hotel wit h i nstructions to take it on the plane. The parcel was delivered to he r hote l along with a record by an up-and-coming group called the Rollin g Stones . The deliverer of said parcel was an unknown at the time, Mic k Jagger. S he currently resides in South Kensington, London with her do g Marley.
Italian baroness Afdera Franchetti became Fonda's fourth wife two year s a fter his divorce from Blanchard. Audrey Hepburn introduced the two wh il e she and Fonda were in Italy filming War and Peace. Franchetti and Fo nd a married in 1957 and divorced four years later in 1961.
No children born to Henry Fonda and Afdera Franchetti. She was in her ea r ly to mid 20's when she married him. He was in his late 40s. They marri e d on March 9, 1957. They divorced on June 22, 1962. I'm looking for sou rc es to attach to this.
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