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Afdera Franchetti (born 8 July 1931) [1] is an Italian baroness, descended from an old Jewish family of Venice which intermarried with the Rothschild family and who eventually converted to Roman Catholicism. Franchetti is known for being the fourth wife of American actor Henry Fonda .
Apr 27, 2022 · She is the daughter of Baron Raimondo Franchetti, a famous explorer who traveled extensively in Ethiopia, during the 1920s and 1930s, and who was a consultant to Benito Mussolini and an envoy to Ethiopia for Italy's fascist government in the 1930s. Her mother was Sara Louise de Rothschild (1834-1924).
- Preganziol, Veneto
- July 8, 1931
- Veneto
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Dec 7, 2017 · Incidentally, the Franchetti siblings, the Venetian Tenenbaums, were named Nanuk, Afdera, Lorian, Simba. It was a family of “merchants, Jewish blood of which I’m very proud. I didn’t even know...
Baroness Afdera Franchetti was born on July 8, 1931 in Venice, Veneto, Italy, daughter of Baron Raimondo Franchetti and Bianca Maria Stella Rocca. She was married on May 10, 1957 in New York City, New York, Verenigde Staten to Henry Jaynes"Hank" Fonda. She died on May 4, 1958 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Female
- Henry Jaynes"Hank" Fonda, Henry Jaynes"Hank
- Veneto
- July 8, 1931
Nov 24, 2012 · Writing about Fonda’s fourth wife, Afdera Franchetti, a woman his son, Peter, regarded as “Eurotrash,” McKinney slumps into purple prose that crosses Walter Pater’s description of Mona Lisa with...
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May 4, 1987 · When you hang out with the Baronessa Afdera Franchetti -- Italian aristocrat, Henry Fonda's fourth wife and general spitfire (indeed, she was named after an Ethiopian volcano) -- you're in...
Born into the Italian aristocracy, the youngest child of noted explored Baron Raimondo Franchetti first met Henry Fonda at a party in Rome. When they married in 1957 she was 26, and he was 26...
