| Nina, Baroness van Pallandt | |
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| Born | Nina Magdelene Møller-Hasselbalch 15 July 1932 Denmark |
| Years active | 1958-1988 |
Nina, Baroness van Pallandt (born 15 July 1932) is a Danish singer and actress.
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Born Nina Magdelene Møller-Hasselbalch, she married Frederik, Baron van Pallandt in 1960. They formed a singing duo, Nina & Frederik, and achieved worldwide popularity with their calypso-style songs. They had three children:[1]
They parted in 1969 and divorced in 1975.[2] In the early 1990s, Frederik van Pallandt settled in the Philippines. He joined a major Australian crime syndicate, providing transportation for drug trafficking and, in 1994, was shot dead.[3]
In the early 1970s, Nina van Pallandt was romantically linked to fellow Ibiza resident Clifford Irving.[4] In the 2006 film, The Hoax, about Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes, Van Pallandt is portrayed by Julie Delpy. The film starred Richard Gere, who appeared with Nina Van Pallandt in one of his earliest films, American Gigolo. Nina now lives in Barcelona, Spain
She also appeared in several Robert Altman films during the 1970s, including The Long Goodbye, A Wedding, and Quintet. In 1969, she contributed the song "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" to the James Bond movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby. During the early 1970s she appeared as a guest on several episodes of "The Morecambe & Wise Show" for BBC television