(1957 - July 13, 1957) (his death)
1956 meets internationally renowned, Austrian-born screenwriter Robert T. Thoeren in Hamburg, Germany
c. 57 marries Thoeren. He’s 21 years her senior and has a daughter, Nina, from a previous marriage to a French painter. Thoeren adopts Erica’s young son.
the Thoerens make their home in Munich
13 July 57 becomes the widow of Thoeren, who dies at age 53 from a cardiac weakness following a car crash while driving from Munich to Zurich.
early 60 Thoeren’s 18-year-old daughter Nina is murdered in Los Angeles, California, by a sex offender named Crumley, an African-American, who gave her a ride home from her university
August 60 there are rumors that she has inherited a million mark fortune from a distant American relative. Soon it turns out that these are the millions left by Thoeren to his daughter in 1957.