Egon Von Furstenburg
| Egon von Fürstenberg | |
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| Prince of Fürstenberg | |
Egon (left) with Alfonso zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, in 1955
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| Born | Eduard Egon Peter Paul Giovanni Prinz zu Fürstenberg 29 June 1946 Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Died | 11 June 2004 (aged 57) Rome, Italy |
| Spouse |
Diane Simone Michelle Halfin Lynn Marshall |
| Issue |
Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg Princess Tatiana von Fürstenberg |
| House | House of Fürstenberg |
| Father | Prince Tassilo of Fürstenberg |
| Mother | Clara Agnelli |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Prince Egon von Fürstenberg (Eduard Egon Peter Paul Giovanni Prinz zu Fürstenberg, Prinz Egon zu Fürstenberg; 29 June 1946 – 11 June 2004) was a socialite, banker, fashion and interior designer, and member of the German family Fürstenberg.
In 1969, he married fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg, with whom he had two children Prince Alexandre Egon (b. 25 January 1970) and Princess Tatiana Desirée (b. 16 February 1971). The couple divorced in 1972. In 1983, he married Lynn Marshall (born ca. 1950), an American and a Mississippi native who was co-owner of a flower shop; the couple remained childless. Between his marriages, Egon also had a male partner: He was frank about his bisexuality and the openness of his first marriage.
Fürstenberg wrote two books on fashion and interior design (The Power Look, 1978, and The Power Look at Home: Decorating for Men, 1980) as well as opened an interior design firm. He died in Rome on 11 June 2004 of deriving from an earlier hepatitis C infection. He was survived by his children and both wives.
Eduard Egon Peter Paul Giovanni Prinz zu Fürstenberg, born 29 June 1946 in Lausanne, Switzerland, was the elder son of Prince Tassilo zu Fürstenberg (1903–1989) and his first wife Clara Agnelli (1920-2016), elder sister of Fiat's chairman Gianni Agnelli. After Clara's departure, his father married Texas oil heiress Dr. Cecilie Amelia Hudson (née Blaffer).
Fürstenberg's younger brother is Prince Sebastian zu Fürstenberg, and his sister is socialite and actress Princess Ira zu Fürstenberg.
Egon von Fürstenberg was born at Lausanne, Switzerland, was baptized by Pope John XXIII, and was thereafter brought up in great privilege in Venice, Italy. He earned a degree in economics at the University of Geneva, followed by an 18-month term in the Peace Corps in Burundi working as a teacher, and then two years as an investment banker in New York.
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