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Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi

Marina Torlonia
Spouse(s) Frank Shields
(m. 1940; div. 1950)

Edward W. Slater
(m. 1950)
Issue
Francis Alexander Shields
Marina Shields
Edward Torlonia Slater
Father Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi
Mother Mary Elsie Moore
Born (1916-10-22)22 October 1916
Palazzo Núñez-Torlonia, Rome, Italy
Died 15 September 1960(1960-09-15) (aged 43)
Piacenza, Italy

Donna Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi (22 October 1916 – 15 September 1960) was an Italian-American best known as the paternal grandmother of the actress and model Brooke Shields.

Torlonia was born in Rome, at Palazzo Núñez-Torlonia, the youngest daughter of Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi and his American wife, Mary Elsie Moore, a daughter of Charles Arthur Moore, a shipping broker and hardware manufacturer from Connecticut. The Torlonia family gained its fortune in the administration of Vatican finances.

She had three siblings:

Donna Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi was married twice, her husbands being:

Marina Slater died on 15 September 1960, in an automobile accident in Piacenza, Italy, shortly after leaving the wedding of her nephew Marco Torlonia, 6th Prince of Civitella-Cesi, with princess Orsetta Caracciolo, niece of film director Luchino Visconti. Along with Marina, Duke Raffaele Canevaro of Gallluzo, and the Countess Eleanor Terry died in the accident.


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