summer 60
meets Vincent Lee Hillyer through her father, director of the Rome Opera Association, at the Rome opera. Hillyer, the son of Dr. and Mrs. LeRoy Hillyer of Los Banos, is the former husband of Princess Fatemeh Pahlevi of Iran. He gave up Catholicism and became a Moslem when he married the youngest sister of the Shah in Rome and in Paris in 1950 and became an honorary Iranian citizen. He was 25; she was 21. They met when Hillyer was invited by the Shah`s younger brother, Prince Mahmoud, then a classmate of Hillyer`s at the University of California, to visit Teheran. Hillyer met the princess in 1948. After the marriage he became general sales agent in Iran for Trans World Airlines and Pakistanian International Airlines and several other American and Western Europe companies in other fields. After five years he returned to Beverly Hills where he opened an export-import firm called Bata, which he sold to open a travel agency called Magic Carpet. He later sold out and came to Los Banos to manage his late father`s almond orchard. Hillyer and the princess divorced in July 1959. Their children are Prince Kayvon, 8, and Prince Darius, 3, who live with him nine months each year. A daughter, Rana, was accidentally killed in a fall in 1954. The Princess married a General of the Iranian Air Force in January 1960.
17 October 60
arrives with her mother in San Francisco from Rome and is met by her fiancé, Hillyer. Hillyer drives them to his parents` home in Los Banos. "We`ve been engaged for a month," Hillyer says. "No date has been set for the wedding yet."
21 October 60
is introduced to friends of her fiancé at a cocktail and supper party given by his parents for 50 guests. Kayvon Hillyer, 8-year old son of Vincent and his first wife, Princess Fatemeh of Iran, assists in serving.
25 October 60
marries Hillyer in the Hotel Bel-Air under a huge bower of white roses and carnations. He`s 35; she`s 27.
the Hillyers depart on a Hawaiian honeymoon
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she and Hillyer live in Santa Monica with his two sons by Princess Fatemeh
May 61
her husband and Manuchahr Raihi of Iran file suit in U.S. District Court in Tulsa. Oklahoma, seeking more than $30 million from Pan American Petroleum Corp. of Tulsa. They accuse the oil company of backing out on a promise to pay them $25,000 a year and two and a half per cent of net profits for helping obtain an oil exploration contract with the government of Iran.
26 October 61
her first son, Edoardo LeRoy, is born at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood
1 April 64
her second son, Vincent Lee, "Enzo," is born in Rome, Italy
August 66
divorces Hillyer, with whom she has two sons. He goes to live with his mother, Ruth Hillyer, at 715 Page Avenue, Los Banos, California. Hillyer will die at age 73 in 1999 in California.
c. 69
her former husband and Italian director Frank Argrama found International Production Associates of Rome, a low-budget film company. Their first picture will be a Gothic romance called The Seventh Son.