the memorial is inscribed with the names and ages of children killed in war. The Banner was first exhibited in the Kremlin at an International Women's Congress. In 2018, Montandon renamed her organization Peace To The Planet. The organization aims to provide children with a platform to advocate against gun violence and global warming. Peace To The Planet is completing a new banner, similar to the Banner of Hope, showing the faces and names of children killed in gun violence. Awards and honors Montandon was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize three successive years and received the UN Peace Messenger award in 1987. In 2014, Dr. Jitu Rajgor, founded a women’s health facility in Montandon's honor at his clinic in Ahmedabad, India. Personal life Montandon was married three times. Her first marriage, to Howard Groves in 1947, lasted 12 years. In the 1960s, she had a short-lived marriage to attorney Melvin Belli. In 1969, she married butter baron and billionaire Al Wilsey, and the next year she had her only child, best-selling author Sean Wilsey. As a society wife, Montandon "acquired a reputation for giving the best parties and round-table luncheons." Al Wilsey later had an affair with Montandon's married best friend, Dede Traina (born Diane Dow Buchanan), before he filed for divorce in 1980 in order to marry Dede. The divorce proceedings played out publicly. In 1975, Montandon won a lawsuit against Triangle Publications for supposedly damaging her reputation. In popular culture Author Armistead Maupin caricatured her as society columnist "Prue Giroux" in his Tales of the City series. Published works How to Be A Party Girl, McGraw-Hill, 1968. The Intruders, 1975. Making Friends Celebrities And Their Angels Oh the Hell of it All, Harper, 2007. Whispers from God: A Life Beyond Imaginings, Harper Paperbacks, 2008. Peeing On Hot Coals Recipes for Conversation: A Guide to Hosting Authentic Conversations in the Digital Age (and a Pandemic) Notes References Living people American non-fiction writers Writers from San Francisco 1928 births American socialites American women non-fiction writers 21st-century American women