B. Wrightsman, an oil millionaire whose collection of French and Austrian furniture — much of which was acquired through the designers Denning & Fourcade — and decorative arts fills several galleries at the Metropolitan Museum. She was previously married (1947–1950) to the actor Helmut Dantine, by whom she had a son, Dana Wrightsman Dantine. She and Cassini had one son, Alexander. On April 8, 1963, while in her bedroom, with her 14-year-old stepdaughter, Marina Cassini, by her side, as the teenager watched the 35th Academy Awards on television, Charlene Cassini swallowed 30 sleeping pills and died the next day. She reportedly was distraught after Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy indicted her husband for failing to register under the U.S. Registration Act, as an agent of a foreign government. A public relations agency Cassini helped found, Martial & Company, acquired on the Dominican Republic as a client, leaving Cassini responsible, at least as the United States Department of Justice was concerned, as an agent of the Caribbean nation. Charlene Cassini also suffered from headaches following a minor household accident, was depressed after the suicide of a ski instructor friend, and had become bitterly estranged from her father. After his wife's death, Cassini later wrote, "We discovered the apartment, particularly her closets, littered with all kinds of pills, hidden in vases, under linens, stuffed in her shoes and the pockets of her clothes." Cassini's fourth wife was the actress Gianna Lou Müller, better known as Nadia Cassini, whom he married in 1969 and divorced in 1972. His fifth wife was Brenda Mitchell, a top fashion model, from whom he also was divorced. They had two sons, Nicholas, formerly a professional golfer on the Nationwide Tour and Dimitri, who is involved in international real estate. Death He died at his home in Manhattan, aged 86, from natural causes. References 1915 births 2002 deaths Writers from Sevastopol American newspaper journalists Television personalities from New York City Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States People from Manhattan Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Italy Journalists from New York City