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Nina van Pallandt

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Nina van Pallandt became famous in the United States in the early 1970s as the mistress of hoaxer Clifford Irving, who went to jail when his biography of Howard Hughes, allegedly written with Hughes' co-operation, proved to be a fake when Hughes himself came out of seclusion to repudiate the work. Van Pallandt helped expose Irving's fraud by revealing that he was vacationing with her in Mexico at the time he was allegedly interviewing Hughes. She appears, as herself, in Orson Welles' non-fiction film "F For Fake" (F for Fake (1973)). Van Pallandt was known in Europe as a singer of folk songs before her involvement with Irving and subsequent film career, having been married to her fellow folk singer, Baron Frederik van Pallandt, with whom she toured Europe and had many hit records as "Nina & Frederik". The height of Van Pallandt's film career was her appearance in four Robert Altman movies: The Long Goodbye (1973), A Wedding (1978), Quintet (1979), and O.C. and Stiggs (1985).
- IMDb mini biography by: Guy Lazarus

Became famous as the mistress of Clifford Irving. In American Gigolo (1980), she worked with Richard Gere, who would later play Irving in The Hoax (2006).
Her ex-husband Frederik was tragically shot to death in May 1994 along with his second wife while aboard his yacht in the Philippines, supposedly by river pirates. Rumors say his drug dealings with cartels may have actually precipitated his death.
Nina and Frederik were Danish easy listening icons of the 1960s who moved effortlessly from folk to calypso to pop to protest songs ("Listen to the Ocean," "Sucu, Sucu," "Little Donkey"). The couple split up in 1969 and Nina went on to a solo career as a singer and Hollywood actress,
Her marriage to Robert Kirby, a South African actor and satirist, took place in Cape Town, South Africa.
Gave birth to her second child at age 31, a daughter Kirsa Eleonore Clara, Baroness van Pallandt on August 9, 1963. The child's father is her ex-husband, Frederik van Pallandt.

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