March 1976 she and department store heir Peter Gimbel present a TV show called “The Mystery of the Andrea Doria”
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marries Peter Robin Gimbel. He is 51; she’s about 43. Gimbel was married before to socialites Mary Bailey and Virginia Taylor. He is a millionaire sportsman and entrepreneur raptured with the lore of the Andrea Doria, the Italian liner that sunk 55 miles off the shore of Nantucket, Massachusetts, on July 28, 1956.
30 July 81
the Gimbels and their crew board the Sea Level and depart Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to launch the "Doria Project" in an attempt to recover the first class safe from the Andrea Doria. They don’t locate the safe but locate the first class bank safe and recover it. For years the safe is stored at the New York Aquarium’s shark tank.
16 August 84
arrives with her husband in Montauk, New York, to open the safe in front of a live television audience. Inside are thousands of lire and Silver Certificates.
16 July 87
becomes the widow of Gimbel, who dies of cancer at age 59