Etti Plesch
| Etti Plesch | |
|---|---|
| Born |
3 February 1914 Vienna, Austria |
| Died |
28 April 2003 (aged 89) Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| Residence | Avenue Foch, Paris, France, Villa Leonina at Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France |
| Occupation | Socialite, racehorse owner, huntress |
| Known for | Only female owner to win the Epsom Derby twice |
| Spouse(s) |
1) Clendenin Ryan, Jr. (1934-1935) |
| Parent(s) | Ferdinand von Wurmbrand-Stuppach & May Baltazzi |
1) Clendenin Ryan, Jr. (1934-1935)
2) Count Paul Pálffy ab Erdöd(1935-1937)
3) Count Tamás Esterházy de Galántha (1938-1944)
4) Count Sigismund Berchtold 1944-1949)
5) William Deering Davis (1949-1951)
Etti Plesch (3 February 1914 – 28 April 2003), Austro-Hungarian countess, huntress, racehorse owner and socialite. Plesch lost two of her six husbands to the same woman, Louise de Vilmorin, a French literary figure, and owned two winners of the Epsom Derby, in Psidium in 1961 and Henbit in 1980.
Born Maria Anna Paula Ferdinandine Gräfin von Wurmbrand-Stuppach in Vienna, Austria, of Greco-Austrian heritage, "Etti," as she was known, was putatively the elder daughter of Count Ferdinand von Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1879–1933) and his wife May Baltazzi (1885–1981), but more likely was the countess's biological child by Count Josef Gizycki. Her mother, who was a cousin of Baroness Mary Vetsera, a mistress of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, said that Count Gizycki's main interest in life was "the pleasuring of women in a physical way .... He was amoral and cynical, but he was a marvellous lover." (Gizycki was famed in the early 1900s because of his stormy marriage to American newspaper heiress Cissy Patterson.)
Etti von Wurmbrand-Stuppach was raised in Vienna and in Moravia, with travels to other sites throughout Europe. From the age of ten until she was twelve she was treated for tuberculosis at the Waltzaner Sanatorium in Davos, the setting for Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain.
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