(? - 28 July 1979) (his death)
Trivia
Son Roderick, born in 1964 in Switzerland, is a rock musician
February 64
while filming Mission to Hell in Bangkok, she meets the director of a big U.S. pharmaceutical company / director of an international Hong Kong-based hotel chain, Australian / Yugoslavian-born Dr. Friedrich Strobel von Stein, and marries him six days later in a Far Eastern ceremony. Strobel represented his country in the swimming competitions at the Olympic Summer Games in London, 1948. He will be discovered by French director Andre Hunebelle as a movie actor and change his name to Frederick Stafford.
they honeymoon at their home in the Bahamas
65
her son, Jean Paul Roderick, is born
August 69
is on the cover of Cine Revue
Christmas 69
is Christmas shopping with her husband in Hamburg, Germany
1 September 73
vanishes with her son, 8-year-old Roderick, from her hotel room in Lugano. Her last sign of life is a phone call where she declares to take a taxi to Milan and then a plane to Rome. Stafford reports her missing to the Roman authorities.
End September 73
finally is found in a confused state of mind by her husband at their Lugano penthouse. She has to be treated at a psychiatric clinic. There are rumors the reason for this is due to her husband’s 25-year-old co-star, buxom Margaret Rose Keil.
28 July 79
Stafford dies in the collision of two sport aircrafts in Sarnen, Switzerland
sells her apartments in Munich and Rome and breaks up with friends such as Luis Trenker and actor Hans von Borsody. She assumes the name of Strobel and vanishes with her son in Zurich, Switzerland.
87
reporters locate her in a Swiss sanitarium, where she is recuperating from stomach surgery
maintains flats in Zurich, Lugano, and Marbella and a home in the Bahamas, where she spent her honeymoon and where she plans to enjoy her later years
91
is in the real estate business in Majorca, Spain
lives in a 185-square-meter home in Lugano at Lago Maggiore, Switzerland. Her salaries were invested in real estate at Marbella and in the Bahamas.
11 September 94
dies at age 61 in her home in Lugano from cardiac arrest. She had been at home alone when death came in the middle of the night.