Anna Strasberg

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Biography

  • Primary profession
  • Actress
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 16 April 1939
  • Place of birth
  • Caracas

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Widow of Lee Strasberg.

Godmother of Drew Barrymore.

Mother of David Lee Strasberg and Adam Strasberg. David runs The Group at Strasberg in West Hollywood, California.

27-28 October 1999: Christies auctioned the bulk of Marilyn Monroe s personal effects. In her will, Monroe expressed her desire that Strasberg or her executor, "distribute (these) among my friends, colleagues and those to whom I am devoted." He willed them to Anna, who never met her; the auction netted $12.3 million. She had declared that she would never sell Monroes personal items after successfully suing Odyssey Auctions in 1994 from preventing the sale of items Monroes former business manager Inez Melson had given to her sister, whose son had contracted with Odyssey. Juliens staged a second auction of Monroes personal effects in 2005.

Stepmother of Susan Strasberg and John Strasberg.

A close friend of Sophia Loren , both are Godmothers of Drew Barrymore , Anna would bring young Drew - from age 8 until she was 12 - to Sophias ranch outside Los Angeles where Drew would spend summers with Lorens two sons. (Jane magazine interview March 2007).

Longtime friend of Brooke Shields.

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