Nina van Pallandt

Personal life

She married Thorvald Théodore William Hugo Wessel on 11 August 1955.

On 21 September 1960, she married Frederik, Baron van Pallandt. They formed a singing duo, Nina & Frederik, and achieved worldwide popularity with their calypso-style songs. They had three children :

The couple parted in 1969 and divorced in 1975. In the early 1990s, Frederik van Pallandt settled in the Philippines. He and his Filipino girlfriend, Susannah, were shot dead in 1994.

In the early 1970s, van Pallandt was romantically linked to Clifford Irving. In the 2006 film, The Hoax, about Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes, Van Pallandt is portrayed by Julie Delpy. The film starred Richard Gere, who appeared with Nina Van Pallandt in one of his earliest films, American Gigolo.

She was also married briefly to Robert Kirby, a South African satirist in the 1970s.

She now lives in Barcelona, Spain.

Media appearances

Nina also appeared in several Robert Altman films during the 1970s, including The Long Goodbye, A Wedding, and Quintet. In 1969, she sang John Barry and Hal David's song "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" in the James Bond movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby. During 1969 and the early 1970s she appeared as a guest on several episodes of The Morecambe & Wise Show for BBC television, and in the later 1988 Tales of the Unexpected episode "A Time to Die".