- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- Lady Vulcano
- Afdera Franchetti was born on July 8, 1931 in Preganziol, Veneto, Italy. She was married to Henry Fonda and Howard Taylor. She died on March 20, 2025 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- SpousesHenry Fonda(March 9, 1957 - January 7, 1961) (divorced)Howard Taylor(1954 - 1957) (divorced)
- ParentsBianca Rocca
- RelativesLorian Franchetti(Sibling)Nanucki Franchetti(Sibling)Simba Franchetti(Sibling)
- Ex-stepmother of Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda.
- Introduced to Henry Fonda by Audrey Hepburn while he was filming War And Peace in Italy.
- Her brother, the Baron Raimondo Nanuk Franchetti, was a friend of author Ernest Hemingway, who hunted with him in Caorle Lagoon.
- Daughter of Baron Raimondo Franchetti, a famous explorer who travelled extensively in Ethiopia and charted hitherto unexplored territories (Dancalia) during the 1920s. On his return from an expedition to Ethiopia, his plane exploded over Cairo in 1935.
- Was an Italian baroness, descended from an old Jewish family of Venice which intermarried with the Rothschild family and who eventually converted to Roman Catholicism.
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