- Hot Air Ballooning in January the Gstaad Mountain Rides Open in January Education Several boarding schools are located in or have a campus in Gstaad: Institut Le Rosey John F. Kennedy International School Gstaad International School, formerly in Gstaad, closed in June, 2014. It is scheduled to be redeveloped into an all-boys' school, Surval Gstaad. Notable residents Current and former residents of Gstaad include: Royalty Grace Kelly (1929–1982), American film actress and Princess of Monaco Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980), the last Shah of Iran Prince Rainier (1923–2005), Prince of Monaco The Arts Balthus (1908–2001), Polish-French modern artist Olivier Berggruen (born 1963), German-American art historian and curator. William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008), American conservative commentator, author and columnist. Friedrich Christian Flick (born 1944), German-Swiss art collector Andrew Grima (1921–2007), Anglo-Italian designer and doyen of modern jewelry design in Britain Johnny Hallyday (1943–2017), French rock and roll and pop singer. Maja Hoffmann (born 1956), art collector & founder of the LUMA Foundation. Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), American-born violinist and conductor Richard Scarry (1919–1994), American children's author and illustrator Justin Thannhauser (1892–1976), German art dealer, disseminated Modern art in Europe Taki Theodoracopulos (born 1936), a Greek journalist, writer and columnist. Madonna (born 1958), American pop singer. Acting Dame Julie Andrews (born 1935), English actress, singer and author. Blake Edwards (1922–2010), film director. Sir Roger Moore (1927–2017), actor. Jeanne Moreau (1928–2017), French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. Roman Polanski (born 1933), French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Jane Randolph (1914–2009), American film actress. Peter Sellers (1925–1980), English film actor, comedian and singer. Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011), British-American actress. Business Ernesto Bertarelli (born 1965), Italian-born Swiss billionaire businessman and philanthropist Philipp Braunwalder, Swiss businessman and philanthropist Bernie Ecclestone (born 1930), British Formula One business magnate. Curt Engelhorn (1926–2016), German billionaire, heir of the chemical company BASF Jean Claude Mimran (born 1945) businessman, the majority owner of the hotel Alpina Gstaad Mortimer and Jacqueline Sackler, American heirs of Purdue Pharma makers of the opioid OxyContin. George Soros (born 1930), Jewish-Hungarian banker and activist Popular culture Gstaad is one of the locations featured in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender Is the Night (1934). "Swiss Miss", the second-season premiere of the American animated television series Archer, takes place in Gstaad. Season 4 Episode 8 of the TV Chuck has Chuck in Gstaad with a unique spy in order to try to recover the Intersect. Richard Scarry had