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A socialite, banker, fashion and interior designer, and a member of the former German princely family of Fürstenberg. He was married twice, had two children, and wrote two books on style and decoration.
14 de jun. de 2004 · A tribute to the Austro-German prince who married Diane von Furstenberg and launched her fashion empire, but also led a playboy lifestyle and a controversial career. Learn about his background, achievements, relationships and death in 2004.
12 de jun. de 2004 · Egon von Furstenberg, a Swiss-born aristocrat who started his fashion career as a buyer for a New York department store and went on to be known as the ''prince of high fashion,'' died here...
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Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg (née Halfin) and the late Prince Edouard Egon von und zu Fürstenberg, who died in 2004 at the age of 57.
Diane and Egon met in 1965 when they were both 18 years old, at a birthday party in Lausanne, Switzerland while they both were attending the University of Geneva. They came from wildly different backgrounds — Diane the daughter of a Holocaust survivorwho gave birth to her just 18 months after escaping Auschwitz, and Egon, the son of a German prince...
For decades following their separation, until Egon’s death in 2004, the exes remained remarkably close. After their split, Egon would send Diane a gift every year on their would-be wedding anniversary and they continued to spend every Christmas together with their children, she revealed in her book. “We grew up together,” Egon told Peoplein regard ...
On paper, Diane and Egon were the embodiment of living well (well, as it pertains to N.Y.C. in the early ’70s at least). They were young, royal, wealthy, famous, and knew how to party. “There was hardly a party or opening that we didn’t go to,” Diane wrote in her 1976 book Diane Von Furstenberg’s Book of Beauty. “Back in the Seventies, we would hol...
In 1973, Diane and Egon were profiled by New York Magazinein a story titled “The Couple That Has Everything. Is Everything Enough?” By Linda Francke (who now goes by Linda Bird Francke). The article painted the couple as both promiscuous and passion-devoid. “The only way for a relationship to survive, I think, is to have no sex at all,” Diane is qu...
Diane wed IAC Chairman Barry Diller in 2001, decades after they’d initially met at an N.Y.C. party in the ‘70s. Egon went on to marry Lynn Marshall after he and Diane finalized their divorce. According to her memoir, Diane was at Egon’s side when he passed away from cirrhosis of the liver in Rome in June of 2004.
The fashion designer and the late royal were married for four years and had a son, but separated in 1973 after a magazine article "destroyed" their relationship. They remained friends and supportive of each other's careers until Egon's death in 2004.
17 de set. de 2006 · She had met the prince—Eduard Egon von und zu Fürstenberg, known as Egon, the son of an Austrian prince and Clara Agnelli, an heiress to the Fiat fortune—in Geneva when she was...
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11 de jun. de 2004 · Egon, Prinz von Fürstenberg (Eduard Egon Peter Paul Giovanni Prinz zu Fürstenberg; 29 June 1946 – 11 June 2004) was a socialite, banker, fashion and interior designer, and a member of the former German princely family of Fürstenberg.
12 de jun. de 2004 · Egon von Furstenberg, son of a nobleman who gave up a career in banking to become a popular fashion designer, died Friday in a hospital in Rome, where he had been residing. He was 57. His...
