Egon von Fürstenberg
| Egon von Fürstenberg | |
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| Prince of Fürstenberg | |
Egon (left) with younger brother Sebastian and sister Ira in 1955
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| Born | Eduard Egon Peter Paul Giovanni Prinz zu Fürstenberg 29 June 1946 |
| Died | 11 June 2004 (aged 57) |
| Spouse |
Diane Simone Michelle Halfin Lynn Marshall |
| Issue |
Alexander von Furstenberg Tatiana von Fürstenberg |
| House | House of Fürstenberg |
| Father | Prince Tassilo of Fürstenberg |
| Mother | Clara Agnelli |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Prince Egon von Fürstenberg (Eduard Egon Peter Paul Giovanni Prinz zu Fürstenberg, Prinz Egon zu Fürstenberg, 29 June 1946 – 11 June 2004) was a socialite, banker, fashion and interior designer, and member of the German family (princely house, Fürstenhaus Fürstenberg).
In 1969 he married fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg, with whom he had two children, Prinz Alexandre Egon (b. 25 January 1970) and Prinzessin Tatiana Desirée (b. 16 February 1971). They couple divorced in 1972. In 1983, he married Lynn Marshall (born ca. 1950), an American and a Mississippi native who was co-owner of flower shop; the couple remained childless. Between his marriages Egon also had a male partner: he was frank about his bisexuality and the openness of his first marriage.
Fürstenberg went on to author two books on fashion and interior design (The Power Look, 1978, and The Power Look at Home: Decorating for Men, 1980), and to open an interior design firm. He died in Rome on 11 June 2004 of deriving from an earlier hepatitis C infection, and was survived by his children and both wives.
Eduard Egon Peter Paul Giovanni Prinz zu Fürstenberg, born 29 June 1946 in Lausanne, Switzerland, was the elder son of Prince Tassilo zu Fürstenberg (1903–1989) and his first wife, Clara Agnelli (born 1920), elder sister of Fiat's chairman, Gianni Agnelli. After Clara's departure his father married Texas oil heiress Dr. Cecilie Amelia Hudson, née Blaffer.
Fürstenberg's younger brother is Prince Sebastian zu Fürstenberg, and his sister is socialite and actress Princess Ira zu Fürstenberg.
The House of Fürstenberg is an ancient German family which reigned over a small principality within the Holy Roman Empire until mediatized in 1806, henceforth retaining their official princely status until the fall of the German Empire in 1918, and thereafter maintaining aristocratic eminence through continued ownership of vast estates. Although zu rather than von is the predicate attached to the family's princely title (denoting that the family retained possession of, not merely past or nominal association with the Fürstenberg family seat), Egon and his sister chose to use the more familiar von for career purposes.
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