can anyone translate into English
http://www.parismatch.com/People-Match/ ... ie-114969/
Princess Yasmin activities and interview
Re: Princess Yasmin interview
This is a rough computer generated translation, but it gives some idea of the content.
The princess wanted to be a singer when she had to leave everything to deal with Rita Hayworth, affected by Alzheimer's disease
Interview Caroline Pigozzi - Paris Match
Da carefree youth in the hell of dementia of his mother to Yasmin Aga Khan, the shock was brutal. In 1981, the princess discovers that Rita Hayworth, 62, suffers from Alzheimer's disease. That it was called the goddess of love, and marriage to the famous seducer Prince Ali Khan was raised to the rank of princess of the Thousand and One Nights, is lost in an endless twilight. By choosing to accompany him in this trial, Yasmin broke into a universe that she knows nothing: it transforms its combat, its agonies, a universal cause and created the Alzheimer's Association Rita Hayworth Gala. Twenty-five years later, Yasmin Aga Khan is proud of the millions of dollars it could save each year for researchers. In France, the disease affects one million people. She received the title of great national cause.
Paris Match. Princess, you were the first person to alert world public opinion about Alzheimer's disease ...
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.Indeed, it was in 1981, there are already far more than a quarter of a century since, before kissing on a voluntary and absolute this cause, I was faced with the painful loss of my mother, Rita Hayworth , which was diagnosed at age 62, Alzheimer's disease. It had, for months, no unusual behavior that doctors and relatives not understand why. She, once with an incredible memory, actress so bright and talented, can not retain his texts. Mom also lost the sense of direction, confuses things and had, moreover, hallucinations, to see intruders in his house, causing the police to prevent. It really became increasingly strange, and I put it on the back of the drink because she appreciated the spirit and great wines!
Anyway!
Remember those terrible pictures that have sadly gone around the world, when in 1981, at the airport in London, she descended, unbridled, the bridge of an aircraft. Realizing that day that it should be really serious, I then headed to New York at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center where, after simple tests of memory - he called the name of U.S. President, day and date the week, where she lived - and a brain scanner, neurologists have the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. I have never heard this word complicated inherited the name of the German doctor who first was in 1906 in Munich, described the disease in a woman autopsia 52 years singular behavior, which he had discovered plaques and degeneration of neurons in the brain. Thus, I decided to stop everything to take care of my mother. Became his legal guardian, I have completely taken over, which meant first for me to stop singing - because I was about to make a career as a singer, after studies in music at the University of Bennington and began to dial. But how could I have the heart to that and get into a profession with too intrusive mother so ill! It was at that moment that I decided to turn this painful disability in positive action. Taking advantage of the fame and glory from that actress adulated and most admired of his time, combining his name with the disease, I then put tirelessly to alert world public opinion on the disease 'AD.
How?
First, by joining this year was a modest association founded by a businessman, Jerome Stone, in 1979. We were hardly more than twenty, all very motivated because everyone had a relative suffering from Alzheimer's. One of my greatest strengths at the time was to know President Reagan who once knew Rita Hayworth Hollywood ... As soon as I appeared before him, he invited members of the association and the board in his office Oval the White House, and it faithfully every year until the end of his second term. Thanks to this, I was able, with our team, the alert on the ravages of disease, and explain how lobbying, particularly at the federal level, was essential for us. It helped us enormously in declaring November Month of preventing the disease. Decision officially proclaimed in November 1983 by the Congress, approved and signed by President Ronald Reagan in person. What upsets me now is that it was also a victim of this disease.
What is the balance of all those years of perseverance?
We now have 75 member states of the Association Alzheimer's Disease International, which I am the president. France was the second country to join us after Australia. Alzheimer's Australia was established in 1985. I am very admiring of their shares and funds paid very important because in many countries, tax deductions are much less important than in the United States. We also obtained that September 21 is World Day of Alzheimer's disease.
Tell me now.
I live in the mountains of Utah, because I need peace and quiet, wide open spaces ... and every day I realize how lucky I live in Park City. I agree, the past ten years, my life with Blaize, a wonderful man. We have a great complicity, and while working in the
finance, he supports me every day by marrying my doubts, my joys in this and other areas ... it also gives me ideas. As for my 23-year-old son, Andrew, born of my first marriage to Basil Embiricos - I was married twice - he lives in New York and I see when I go a week per month for meetings of the association. He is very proud of my commitment, who, from very small, has always been affected by my actions ... my responsibilities if I can not be kept behind a desk, I am of course constantly reachable through my BlackBerry . Because the ravages of this disease within me at every moment, even in my remote mountains where I feel that time passes more slowly than in New York, for example ... In fact, to truly benefit from the existence, I rise from 7 am, then I can ski, play golf ... but I am also very happy in New York lights in my apartment on Central Park.
Are you proud of everything you've done for twenty-five years?
Things do not so, I am pleased that over the years more and more countries have mobilized and are really aware of what this degenerative disease - the first signs may occur from 30 years . For my part, I just think that when you are a princess, who has always had the means to live a very privileged, we must give back to society in one form or another it has made. My everyday life seems empty and sad if I spent my nights in the evenings and my days knitting! Because I feel as driven by a mission, a little voice inside my side to find by all means the cause of this terrible evil to succeed in relieving those who suffer, and their entourage.
Tell me about your mother ...
Mum led a life of fabulous, exciting and painful at times. As an actress and personally, it is almost arrived in the firmament. She had, with my father, Ali Khan - the women considered as one of the most attractive of its time - a marriage of fairy tale ... and even then they divorced, they remained close . Dad was warm, elegant, very loving, a wonderful. Before my father, she was already married to Orson Welles, she had a daughter, Rebecca, my half-sister died in 2004. I had my share of friendly relations with Orson Welles. Mom, who has been very lucky until his illness, was a great lady, having experienced the best and worst.
Look at his films you?
Of course, with happiness! Channel Turner, a movie channel, recently devoted an entire month to Rita Hayworth. Every Tuesday evening, I saw what emotion, what joy for me, but also for movie buffs that can still be admired, who loved his job and was taking his roles very seriously. I am fortunate that there is still this kind of testimony to keep the mother of my best memory is also important to Andrew that has very little known his grandmother because when he was born, she was already very ill and bedridden. So I brought her grand-son to take the few moments in his arms, but unfortunately Andrew did not remember more!
Do you fear being a victim of the disease?
I am not obsessed or reassured, and I admit that I sometimes think, because I believe in genetics and thus heredity. My mother was the first victim in our family, who knows what might happen! If the disease can be family, fortunately, it rarely affects each member of a family.
Now talk about this plan is France ...
I find your country and your president, Nicolas Sarkozy, formidable as he had the courage to declare, in 2007, the disease as "great national cause", with a control plan and a research center on the specific forms early. There are in France approximately 10 000 people affected before age 60, and the Head of State has officially announced it would release 1.6 billion five-year plan for Alzheimer's. Research, improving the quality of life, shelter, information, support patients and families still require more money! I hope that through exemplary actions as we will make a real leap forward, either in Europe, the United States or elsewhere ...
Where you have your amazing strength?
First of the love of my family, even if, unfortunately, I can see two or three times a year, of the affection of my faithful friends and also I think my temperament positive and voluntary. I am viscerally taken by my action and I want more than anything before he died - I have 59 years - we have found how to stop Alzheimer's disease. Finally, I thank heaven every morning me first given health allows me to enjoy every moment of life because life is short and therefore try not to waste too much time!
LOSS AND HOPE AT THE STELLAR ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION RITA HAYWORTH GALA
Honorees, award presenters and guests at the October 27 “So Near & Yet So Far” Alzheimer’s Association Rita Hayworth Gala had a vested reason for the urgency to find a cure for a disease that currently afflicts 5.3 million Americans. When she was 19, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan discovered that her mother, Rita Hayworth, then in her 50s, was suffering from Alzheimer’s. After caring for her mother until her death in 1987 at age 68, she founded the Rita Hayworth Gala. Alexandra Lebenthal, gala chair, wistfully recalled her once “glamorous, vital mommy,” now 79, who no longer recognizes her or her sister.
Rita Hayworth Award recipient Muffie Potter Aston told the audience about her grandmother, “a widow at 28 with a young daughter — my mother — in German-occupied Yugoslavia. “She was interrogated by the Nazis… and later honored by the OSS [Office of Strategic Services] as a vital code-breaker for the British. She went from speaking seven languages to barely speaking one.” Attorney Lonnie Wollin, recipient of the Rita Hayworth Lifetime Award, lost his father, three uncles and two aunts to Alzheimer’s. In 1977, Wollin founded the Alzheimer’s Disease Society, which eventually evolved into the National Alzheimer’s Association. Among the guests was a stunning Brooke Shields, whose dementia-afflicted mother once orchestrated young Shields’s rise to fame.
The gowns were dazzling, and the statistics mind-boggling: “By 2015, there will be 16 million with Alzheimer’s in the U.S.,” Aga Khan informed. “Somewhere in America, every 70 seconds, doctors diagnose a new case…. Alzheimer’s annually afflicts more [people] than breast cancer and prostate combined. It is the seventh leading cause of death, and affects people in their 30s, 40s and 50s.” And as a kicker for the women in the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom, she added, “Twenty percent of women reaching 65 will develop dementia.” On a large movie screen set up onstage, a film retrospective of Alzheimer’s victims included headshots of George Balanchine, Estelle Getty, Abe Ribicoff, William Powell, Perry Como, Cyrus Vance, Eddie Albert, Vincente Minnelli, Aaron Copeland, Barry Goldwater, Charles Bronson, Otto Preminger, Arlene Francis, Dana Andrews, Floyd Patterson, Burgess Meredith, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rosa Parks, Charleton Heston, Ronald Reagan and others.
“Alzheimer’s took both my grandfather and my father,” said David Hyde Pierce, who whimsically informed, “Yes, I used to be Niles” — a reference to the character he portrayed in the long-running TV sitcom “Frasier,” currently in reruns. “There are two dozen drugs in clinical tests at this time,” Pierce said. A star of such recent Broadway hits as “Spamalot,” and “Curtains,” Pierce, who also had a supporting role in the 1988 film “Crossing Delancey” (back then, he was known as David Pierce), admitted that being “unemployed” was the reason he was able to attend the gala.
Underwritten by Rolex Watch USA, the event raised $5 million. Roger Waters, founding member, lyricist and principal composer of Pink Floyd, performed “Wish You Were Here.” The Pointer Sisters topped off the evening’s entertainment.
http://forward.com/articles/118838/
Honorees, award presenters and guests at the October 27 “So Near & Yet So Far” Alzheimer’s Association Rita Hayworth Gala had a vested reason for the urgency to find a cure for a disease that currently afflicts 5.3 million Americans. When she was 19, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan discovered that her mother, Rita Hayworth, then in her 50s, was suffering from Alzheimer’s. After caring for her mother until her death in 1987 at age 68, she founded the Rita Hayworth Gala. Alexandra Lebenthal, gala chair, wistfully recalled her once “glamorous, vital mommy,” now 79, who no longer recognizes her or her sister.
Rita Hayworth Award recipient Muffie Potter Aston told the audience about her grandmother, “a widow at 28 with a young daughter — my mother — in German-occupied Yugoslavia. “She was interrogated by the Nazis… and later honored by the OSS [Office of Strategic Services] as a vital code-breaker for the British. She went from speaking seven languages to barely speaking one.” Attorney Lonnie Wollin, recipient of the Rita Hayworth Lifetime Award, lost his father, three uncles and two aunts to Alzheimer’s. In 1977, Wollin founded the Alzheimer’s Disease Society, which eventually evolved into the National Alzheimer’s Association. Among the guests was a stunning Brooke Shields, whose dementia-afflicted mother once orchestrated young Shields’s rise to fame.
The gowns were dazzling, and the statistics mind-boggling: “By 2015, there will be 16 million with Alzheimer’s in the U.S.,” Aga Khan informed. “Somewhere in America, every 70 seconds, doctors diagnose a new case…. Alzheimer’s annually afflicts more [people] than breast cancer and prostate combined. It is the seventh leading cause of death, and affects people in their 30s, 40s and 50s.” And as a kicker for the women in the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom, she added, “Twenty percent of women reaching 65 will develop dementia.” On a large movie screen set up onstage, a film retrospective of Alzheimer’s victims included headshots of George Balanchine, Estelle Getty, Abe Ribicoff, William Powell, Perry Como, Cyrus Vance, Eddie Albert, Vincente Minnelli, Aaron Copeland, Barry Goldwater, Charles Bronson, Otto Preminger, Arlene Francis, Dana Andrews, Floyd Patterson, Burgess Meredith, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rosa Parks, Charleton Heston, Ronald Reagan and others.
“Alzheimer’s took both my grandfather and my father,” said David Hyde Pierce, who whimsically informed, “Yes, I used to be Niles” — a reference to the character he portrayed in the long-running TV sitcom “Frasier,” currently in reruns. “There are two dozen drugs in clinical tests at this time,” Pierce said. A star of such recent Broadway hits as “Spamalot,” and “Curtains,” Pierce, who also had a supporting role in the 1988 film “Crossing Delancey” (back then, he was known as David Pierce), admitted that being “unemployed” was the reason he was able to attend the gala.
Underwritten by Rolex Watch USA, the event raised $5 million. Roger Waters, founding member, lyricist and principal composer of Pink Floyd, performed “Wish You Were Here.” The Pointer Sisters topped off the evening’s entertainment.
http://forward.com/articles/118838/
There is trailer to the documentary at:
http://www.westboroughrotary.org/events ... IPaint.htm
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL District 7910 Central Massachusetts USA
Rotary Club of Westborough
PO Box 840 Westborough, Massachusetts, 01581 USA Home
Alzheimer's The Documentary "I Remember Better When I Paint"Special screen showing (click here for print version)
featured are noted doctors from Boston University and Yasmin Aga Khan, president of Alzheimer’s Disease International and daughter of Rita Hayworth, who had Alzheimer’s, and former Westborough resident Skip Curtis.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at the Westborough High School Auditorium
The Rotary Club of Westborough and Westborough Council on Aging cordially invite you to a screening of the documentary film "I Remember Better When I Paint." This film by Eric Ellena and Berna Huebner, presented by French Connection Films and the Hilgos Foundation, and narrated by Olivia de Havilland is the first international documentary about the positive impact of art and other creative therapies on people with Alzheimer's and how these approaches can change the way we look at the disease. Among those who are featured are noted doctors from Boston University and Yasmin Aga Khan, president of Alzheimer’s Disease International and daughter of Rita Hayworth, who had Alzheimer’s, and former Westborough resident Skip Curtis.
"I Remember Better When I Paint" shows the revolutionary effects of treatment for Alzheimer's patients and brings important information to Alzheimer's patients and those who love and care for them, and to those who, through heredity, will become future victims of this disease. The Westborough screening “welcomes home” the Skip and Meg Curtis family who, in 1996, moved to New Hampshire to run a Bed and Breakfast Inn. Skip Curtis was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and is a patient at the Boston University School of Medicine’s Disease Clinical & Research Program. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with:
Meg Curtis, Innkeeper, caregiver to Alzheimer’s patient Skip Curtis featured in the film, along with her children, and, Robert Stern, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Neurology and Co-Director, Alzheimer's Disease Clinical & Research Program
When: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
6:30 p.m. – At the door ticket sales
7:00 p.m. – Movie screening
8:00 p.m. – Panel discussion and light refreshments
Where: Westborough High School Auditorium, 90 West Main Street, Westborough, MA 01581. Parking will be available in the school lots.
Cost: $10 per person, cash or check
Tickets are available at the Westborough Senior Center, 4 Rogers Road and at Central One Credit Union, South Street, Westborough, MA 01581.
Call Westborough Council on Aging at 508-366-3000 for further information or Carol Burtt Borglund, Rotary Club of Westborough, 508-922-6358.
This event is co-sponsored by the Community Service Committee of the Rotary Club of Westborough and Westborough Council on Aging. Proceeds will be split between local charities and the Skip Curtis Fund at Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Boston University, MA.
http://www.westboroughrotary.org/events ... IPaint.htm
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL District 7910 Central Massachusetts USA
Rotary Club of Westborough
PO Box 840 Westborough, Massachusetts, 01581 USA Home
Alzheimer's The Documentary "I Remember Better When I Paint"Special screen showing (click here for print version)
featured are noted doctors from Boston University and Yasmin Aga Khan, president of Alzheimer’s Disease International and daughter of Rita Hayworth, who had Alzheimer’s, and former Westborough resident Skip Curtis.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at the Westborough High School Auditorium
The Rotary Club of Westborough and Westborough Council on Aging cordially invite you to a screening of the documentary film "I Remember Better When I Paint." This film by Eric Ellena and Berna Huebner, presented by French Connection Films and the Hilgos Foundation, and narrated by Olivia de Havilland is the first international documentary about the positive impact of art and other creative therapies on people with Alzheimer's and how these approaches can change the way we look at the disease. Among those who are featured are noted doctors from Boston University and Yasmin Aga Khan, president of Alzheimer’s Disease International and daughter of Rita Hayworth, who had Alzheimer’s, and former Westborough resident Skip Curtis.
"I Remember Better When I Paint" shows the revolutionary effects of treatment for Alzheimer's patients and brings important information to Alzheimer's patients and those who love and care for them, and to those who, through heredity, will become future victims of this disease. The Westborough screening “welcomes home” the Skip and Meg Curtis family who, in 1996, moved to New Hampshire to run a Bed and Breakfast Inn. Skip Curtis was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and is a patient at the Boston University School of Medicine’s Disease Clinical & Research Program. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with:
Meg Curtis, Innkeeper, caregiver to Alzheimer’s patient Skip Curtis featured in the film, along with her children, and, Robert Stern, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Neurology and Co-Director, Alzheimer's Disease Clinical & Research Program
When: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
6:30 p.m. – At the door ticket sales
7:00 p.m. – Movie screening
8:00 p.m. – Panel discussion and light refreshments
Where: Westborough High School Auditorium, 90 West Main Street, Westborough, MA 01581. Parking will be available in the school lots.
Cost: $10 per person, cash or check
Tickets are available at the Westborough Senior Center, 4 Rogers Road and at Central One Credit Union, South Street, Westborough, MA 01581.
Call Westborough Council on Aging at 508-366-3000 for further information or Carol Burtt Borglund, Rotary Club of Westborough, 508-922-6358.
This event is co-sponsored by the Community Service Committee of the Rotary Club of Westborough and Westborough Council on Aging. Proceeds will be split between local charities and the Skip Curtis Fund at Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Boston University, MA.
Ronald Reagan, Princess Yasmin and Alzheimer
> Reagan and Alzheimer's -- What the Public Doesn't Know About the
> 40th President
> By Paul Kengor
> Published January 18, 2011
> | FoxNews.com
> This February 6, 2011 marks the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth.
> Reagan died June 5, 2004 at the ripe old age of 93. Ironically,
> throughout that long life, he had been a model of fitness. If not
> for Alzheimer’s disease, it is quite possible we might be watching
> news clips of an elderly Reagan blowing out a bunch of candles on a
> huge birthday cake.
> That Reagan lost his life to the scourge of Alzheimer’s is, of
> course, well-known. The issue has re-emerged with the comments by
> his son, Ron, speculating that Reagan might have begun experiencing
> the disease earlier than disclosed, during his presidency even. That
> speculation is not new, and has been vigorously debated before,
> including by experts on the disease and Reagan’s physicians. I’m not
> going to rehash the debate here.
> What I would like to do, however, is use this as an opportunity to
> report something on Reagan and Alzheimer’s that has been missed over
> the years. Indeed, less known were Reagan’s quite significant, and
> rather moving, private actions, during his presidency, on behalf of
> those suffering the disease. As a Reagan biographer who spent
> several summers researching presidential papers at the Reagan
> Library, I swerved into these actions unexpectedly.
> Remarkably, Reagan had been highly active in confronting Alzheimer’s
> from the start of his presidency. He would make eight separate
> statements on the disease, averaging one for each year in the White
House
> . In these, he called Alzheimer’s “devastating,” an “indiscriminate
> killer of mind and life.”
> His final presidential statement came November 5, 1988. It is
> chilling to read now, as it foretells Reagan’s own condition in his
> final years, and given that it came precisely six years to the day
> (November 5, 1994) when Reagan would announce to the world that he
> himself had the disease:
>
> “Alzheimer’s disease ranks among the most severe of afflictions,
> because it strips people of their memory and judgment and robs them
> of the essence of their personalities,” explained Reagan. “As the
> brain progressively deteriorates, tasks familiar for a lifetime,
> such as tying a shoelace or making a bed, become bewildering.
> Spouses and children become strangers. Slowly, victims of the
> disease enter profound dementia.”
> That was Reagan himself in the end—robbed of his essence. It was an
> eerie harbinger of what was to come.
> While those presidential statements fell through the cracks of
> history, less-known still, but quite poignant, was Reagan’s behind-
> the-scenes correspondence with Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, daughter
ofbeautiful
> Hollywood star, Rita Hayworth. Hayworth was suffering a premature
> decline due to, of all things, Alzheimer’s disease.
> Reagan was concerned about Hayworth, whom he had known since his
> days as head of the Screen Actors Guild in the 1940s. Tucked away in
> the Presidential Handwriting File at the Reagan Library are touching
> letters exchanged between Reagan and Yasmin Aga Khan.
> The first was dated November 15, 1982, in which Khan thanked Reagan
> for signing a proclamation creating National Alzheimer’s Awareness
> Week. She detailed her mother’s condition and how it had early on
> damaged the actress’s emotional well-being, leading to bouts with
> alcohol, which made her “very difficult” as a mother.
> Reagan responded immediately. His two-page letter on White House
> stationary was dated November 19—an impressive turnaround given
> major demands in the world at the time. The 40th president
> referenced his own parents, including his father’s “very great
> drinking problem” and how his mother, “bless her soul, continually
> told my brother and me that this was a sickness and that he could
> not help it, so we must not hate him but understand and love him.”
> Reagan said he was grateful that “today we have real knowledge of
> Alzheimer’s disease,” and hoped for a cure. He thanked Khan for her
> efforts: “God bless you for what you are doing. You will be in my
prayers.”
> On May 14, 1987, Rita Hayworth died. The president telephoned Khan
> to offer condolences, and released a public statement expressing
> regret. Two months later, on July 28, Khan wrote to ask Reagan if he
> would be an honorary patron for the 1988 Rita Hayworth Gala, which
> had the goal of raising $1.5 million for Alzheimer’s research. Not
> even a week later, Reagan responded, saying he would be “very
> pleased and honored…. Thanks for asking.”
> Rita Hayworth’s case is just one example of President Reagan’s
> concern, public and private, for this disease and its victims.
> Little did he know it would one day claim him, too.
> The centennial of Reagan’s birth brings all sorts of remembrances,
> from celebrations by conservative groups to symposia by academic
> centers and universities. These gatherings will discuss numerous
> aspects of Reagan’s life and career, from the Cold War to tax cuts
> to Hollywood. And with Ron Reagan’s recent comments, the role of
> Alzheimer’s will be front and center. Alas, for Ronald Reagan, there
> was much more to that story.
> Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College
> in Grove City, Pennsylvania. His books include "The Crusader: Ronald
> Reagan and the Fall of Communism" and the newly released "Dupes: How
> America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century."
>
> Read more:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/ ... z1BVrFf1Bd
> Reagan and Alzheimer's -- What the Public Doesn't Know About the
> 40th President
> By Paul Kengor
> Published January 18, 2011
> | FoxNews.com
> This February 6, 2011 marks the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth.
> Reagan died June 5, 2004 at the ripe old age of 93. Ironically,
> throughout that long life, he had been a model of fitness. If not
> for Alzheimer’s disease, it is quite possible we might be watching
> news clips of an elderly Reagan blowing out a bunch of candles on a
> huge birthday cake.
> That Reagan lost his life to the scourge of Alzheimer’s is, of
> course, well-known. The issue has re-emerged with the comments by
> his son, Ron, speculating that Reagan might have begun experiencing
> the disease earlier than disclosed, during his presidency even. That
> speculation is not new, and has been vigorously debated before,
> including by experts on the disease and Reagan’s physicians. I’m not
> going to rehash the debate here.
> What I would like to do, however, is use this as an opportunity to
> report something on Reagan and Alzheimer’s that has been missed over
> the years. Indeed, less known were Reagan’s quite significant, and
> rather moving, private actions, during his presidency, on behalf of
> those suffering the disease. As a Reagan biographer who spent
> several summers researching presidential papers at the Reagan
> Library, I swerved into these actions unexpectedly.
> Remarkably, Reagan had been highly active in confronting Alzheimer’s
> from the start of his presidency. He would make eight separate
> statements on the disease, averaging one for each year in the White
House
> . In these, he called Alzheimer’s “devastating,” an “indiscriminate
> killer of mind and life.”
> His final presidential statement came November 5, 1988. It is
> chilling to read now, as it foretells Reagan’s own condition in his
> final years, and given that it came precisely six years to the day
> (November 5, 1994) when Reagan would announce to the world that he
> himself had the disease:
>
> “Alzheimer’s disease ranks among the most severe of afflictions,
> because it strips people of their memory and judgment and robs them
> of the essence of their personalities,” explained Reagan. “As the
> brain progressively deteriorates, tasks familiar for a lifetime,
> such as tying a shoelace or making a bed, become bewildering.
> Spouses and children become strangers. Slowly, victims of the
> disease enter profound dementia.”
> That was Reagan himself in the end—robbed of his essence. It was an
> eerie harbinger of what was to come.
> While those presidential statements fell through the cracks of
> history, less-known still, but quite poignant, was Reagan’s behind-
> the-scenes correspondence with Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, daughter
ofbeautiful
> Hollywood star, Rita Hayworth. Hayworth was suffering a premature
> decline due to, of all things, Alzheimer’s disease.
> Reagan was concerned about Hayworth, whom he had known since his
> days as head of the Screen Actors Guild in the 1940s. Tucked away in
> the Presidential Handwriting File at the Reagan Library are touching
> letters exchanged between Reagan and Yasmin Aga Khan.
> The first was dated November 15, 1982, in which Khan thanked Reagan
> for signing a proclamation creating National Alzheimer’s Awareness
> Week. She detailed her mother’s condition and how it had early on
> damaged the actress’s emotional well-being, leading to bouts with
> alcohol, which made her “very difficult” as a mother.
> Reagan responded immediately. His two-page letter on White House
> stationary was dated November 19—an impressive turnaround given
> major demands in the world at the time. The 40th president
> referenced his own parents, including his father’s “very great
> drinking problem” and how his mother, “bless her soul, continually
> told my brother and me that this was a sickness and that he could
> not help it, so we must not hate him but understand and love him.”
> Reagan said he was grateful that “today we have real knowledge of
> Alzheimer’s disease,” and hoped for a cure. He thanked Khan for her
> efforts: “God bless you for what you are doing. You will be in my
prayers.”
> On May 14, 1987, Rita Hayworth died. The president telephoned Khan
> to offer condolences, and released a public statement expressing
> regret. Two months later, on July 28, Khan wrote to ask Reagan if he
> would be an honorary patron for the 1988 Rita Hayworth Gala, which
> had the goal of raising $1.5 million for Alzheimer’s research. Not
> even a week later, Reagan responded, saying he would be “very
> pleased and honored…. Thanks for asking.”
> Rita Hayworth’s case is just one example of President Reagan’s
> concern, public and private, for this disease and its victims.
> Little did he know it would one day claim him, too.
> The centennial of Reagan’s birth brings all sorts of remembrances,
> from celebrations by conservative groups to symposia by academic
> centers and universities. These gatherings will discuss numerous
> aspects of Reagan’s life and career, from the Cold War to tax cuts
> to Hollywood. And with Ron Reagan’s recent comments, the role of
> Alzheimer’s will be front and center. Alas, for Ronald Reagan, there
> was much more to that story.
> Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College
> in Grove City, Pennsylvania. His books include "The Crusader: Ronald
> Reagan and the Fall of Communism" and the newly released "Dupes: How
> America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century."
>
> Read more:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/ ... z1BVrFf1Bd
Photo: Rita Hayworth and her daughter Princess Yasmin Aga Khan
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“We Didn’t Know Then
What We Know Now”
By Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, president of Alzheimer’s Disease International, honorary vice chairman of the national board of the Alzheimer’s Association and general chair of the Alzheimer’s Association Rita Hayworth Galas
My mother, Rita Hayworth, was the most beautiful and glamorous movie star of the 1940s and 1950s. She spent much of her life memorizing complicated dance routines and movie scripts. How ironic that she would later be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
As a young girl on visits home from boarding school, I would notice her odd behavior. She would move her personal items from her bedroom to other closets around the house, including mine. She would throw all the food out of the cupboards. She would imagine voices outside and thought someone was trying to break into her home. The police would have to come and tell her no one was there. I remember the many times she would call me at college and ask me the same questions over and over again.
As the disease progressed, her confusion, disorientation and fear worsened. She was unable to remember what day it was or even the name of our president. Her panic increased, and my own fear and sense of helplessness and guilt became overwhelming. It was a terrible day when we stood together in front of a mirror, and she turned to me and asked, “Who are you?”
It wasn’t until she had a complete breakdown that I could step in and take charge of my dear mother’s life. I became her caregiver, and I worried about her all the time.
My thought back then was, “What on earth is going on? What’s happening to her?” Today, she would be diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease, since she was only in her 50s. But this was the 1970s. We didn’t know then what we know now. Very few people had heard of Alzheimer’s disease, and it was often misdiagnosed. Patients would be over-medicated and some even sent to mental institutions.
The best anyone could come up with was that she was suffering from alcoholic dementia. She did like to drink, but it wasn’t that much, and I now believe that alcohol helped her cope with the knowledge that she was losing her memory and, ultimately, her career as well.
At last, in 1981, thanks to Dr. Ronald Fieve—with the help of a CAT scan and memory test—we got the right diagnosis. I felt such a great sense of relief knowing exactly what was wrong. Alzheimer’s can be an embarrassing and humiliating disease not just to people who have it but to friends and family as well, and early diagnosis by a neurologist is key to coping.
With the word of my mother’s illness getting out, I was approached by the Alzheimer’s Association, which had recently been started by Chicago businessman Jerome Stone, whose wife had the disease. This organization was my savior. At that time, the Alzheimer’s Association was a small mom-and-pop group made up of husbands, wives, sons and daughters who had family members with the disease. All these wonderful people were my support group. We were there for each other. We shared our daily knowledge and experience of how to best care for our loved ones.
We sprung into action. We went to Washington to push for federal funding for Alzheimer research, because there was very little money spent on the disease at the time. We raised dollars to award to young researchers doing work in the field. We developed Alzheimer’s Association chapters around the country to support caregivers and make sure they knew that they were not alone. We participated in the development of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), of which there are presently 72 member countries.
We continue our efforts today, pressing for heightened public awareness, increased government engagement, more research dollars, programs providing respite for caregivers and financial relief for those who cannot afford home care attendants and costly nursing homes.
My mother passed away in 1987. We have come a very long way since then. But there is so much more work still to be done.
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What We Know Now”
By Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, president of Alzheimer’s Disease International, honorary vice chairman of the national board of the Alzheimer’s Association and general chair of the Alzheimer’s Association Rita Hayworth Galas
My mother, Rita Hayworth, was the most beautiful and glamorous movie star of the 1940s and 1950s. She spent much of her life memorizing complicated dance routines and movie scripts. How ironic that she would later be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
As a young girl on visits home from boarding school, I would notice her odd behavior. She would move her personal items from her bedroom to other closets around the house, including mine. She would throw all the food out of the cupboards. She would imagine voices outside and thought someone was trying to break into her home. The police would have to come and tell her no one was there. I remember the many times she would call me at college and ask me the same questions over and over again.
As the disease progressed, her confusion, disorientation and fear worsened. She was unable to remember what day it was or even the name of our president. Her panic increased, and my own fear and sense of helplessness and guilt became overwhelming. It was a terrible day when we stood together in front of a mirror, and she turned to me and asked, “Who are you?”
It wasn’t until she had a complete breakdown that I could step in and take charge of my dear mother’s life. I became her caregiver, and I worried about her all the time.
My thought back then was, “What on earth is going on? What’s happening to her?” Today, she would be diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease, since she was only in her 50s. But this was the 1970s. We didn’t know then what we know now. Very few people had heard of Alzheimer’s disease, and it was often misdiagnosed. Patients would be over-medicated and some even sent to mental institutions.
The best anyone could come up with was that she was suffering from alcoholic dementia. She did like to drink, but it wasn’t that much, and I now believe that alcohol helped her cope with the knowledge that she was losing her memory and, ultimately, her career as well.
At last, in 1981, thanks to Dr. Ronald Fieve—with the help of a CAT scan and memory test—we got the right diagnosis. I felt such a great sense of relief knowing exactly what was wrong. Alzheimer’s can be an embarrassing and humiliating disease not just to people who have it but to friends and family as well, and early diagnosis by a neurologist is key to coping.
With the word of my mother’s illness getting out, I was approached by the Alzheimer’s Association, which had recently been started by Chicago businessman Jerome Stone, whose wife had the disease. This organization was my savior. At that time, the Alzheimer’s Association was a small mom-and-pop group made up of husbands, wives, sons and daughters who had family members with the disease. All these wonderful people were my support group. We were there for each other. We shared our daily knowledge and experience of how to best care for our loved ones.
We sprung into action. We went to Washington to push for federal funding for Alzheimer research, because there was very little money spent on the disease at the time. We raised dollars to award to young researchers doing work in the field. We developed Alzheimer’s Association chapters around the country to support caregivers and make sure they knew that they were not alone. We participated in the development of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), of which there are presently 72 member countries.
We continue our efforts today, pressing for heightened public awareness, increased government engagement, more research dollars, programs providing respite for caregivers and financial relief for those who cannot afford home care attendants and costly nursing homes.
My mother passed away in 1987. We have come a very long way since then. But there is so much more work still to be done.
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Rita Hayworth Gala raises more than $1.3M to fight Alzheimer's
28th Annual Rita Hayworth Gala. Hosted by Alzheimer's Association, benefiting research on Alzheimer's disease, and care and support for victims and families.
via www.chicagotribune.com
28th Annual Rita Hayworth Gala. Hosted by Alzheimer's Association, benefiting research on Alzheimer's disease, and care and support for victims and families.
via www.chicagotribune.com
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Yasmin Aga Khan
La princesse dédie sa vie aux autres
Le 23 janvier 2016
Caroline Pigozzi
Yasmin Aga Khan, la fille de Rita Hayworth et d’Ali Khan, est une femme de conviction. Sa vie n'est ni mondaine ni frivole, elle est dédiée à la lutte contre la maladie d’Alzheimer.
Comment oublier ces terribles photos ? A l’aéroport de Londres, l’emblématique Rita Hayworth descend, échevelée, la passerelle d’un avion... A tort, on attribue son comportement à l’alcool... Cette image bouleversante a toujours hanté Yasmin Aga Khan, sa fille. C’est elle qui l’a décidée à se battre pour rendre à Rita Hayworth son honneur perdu.
Un jour du printemps 1983, quatre ans avant la mort de la star à New York, Yasmin monte à la tribune du Congrès américain. Pour témoigner. Sa mère, l’actrice la plus adulée de son temps, est une des innombrables victimes de la maladie d’Alzheimer. Les sévères membres du Congrès sont impressionnés par la beauté de la princesse, son élégance, son panache, mais aussi par sa détermination. Sur sa lancée, elle se rend dans le bureau Ovale pour demander son appui au président Reagan, qui a connu la star à Hollywood quand elle était mariée avec Orson Welles. Ce soutien sera sans faille.
Pour Yasmin Aga Khan, être une « fille de » ne fut pas si simple. Héritière du séducteur Ali Khan, flamboyant prince d’ascendance persane avec autant de moyens que de charme, et d’une icône du cinéma, la demi-sœur de Karim Aga Khan, 49e chef spirituel des ismaéliens, n’a jamais été une enfant gâtée. La jeunesse de Yasmin, orpheline de père à l’âge de 10 ans, fut mi-heureuse, mi-douloureuse. Vingt ans plus tard, la voici confrontée à la détresse de sa mère. Elle va alors pouvoir utiliser son nom prestigieux, et sa notoriété. Au lieu de papillonner avec grâce dans les salons mondains, la princesse rejoint comme bénévole l’association d’Alzheimer, qui compte à l’époque à peine plus d’une vingtaine de membres. Depuis, sous son impulsion, elle s’est développée en 83 branches internationales. Quant au « Rita Hayworth Gala », le dîner de charité qu’elle organise deux fois par an aux Etats-Unis, il a remporté au total 66 millions de dollars !
Elle aurait pu être soprano, mais n'avait plus le cœur à chanter
Yasmin avait pourtant rêvé d’un autre destin. Après des études de musique à l’université de Bennington, elle est encouragée par l’illustre chef d’orchestre Herbert von Karajan. Elle voulait être soprano. Il lui faudra changer brutalement de voie... « Je n’avais plus le cœur à chanter. Je me suis donc consacrée avec amour à ma mère jusqu’à la fin, en mai 1987, à l’éducation de mon fils adoré, Andrew, et à cette cause universelle. »
D’abord mariée avec Basil Embiricos, le père de son unique enfant, puis avec Christopher Jeffries, promoteur immobilier, elle partage depuis quinze ans le quotidien de Blaise Labriola, un chaleureux homme d’affaires d’origine italienne. Elle ne quitte leurs montagnes de l’Utah que pour les besoins de l’association et quand elle va à New York, chaque mois, rendre visite à son fils. Jusqu’à ce matin tragique de décembre 2011 où Andrew, 25 ans, ne s’est pas réveillé. Comme sa mère, il était tourné vers les autres mais avait des rides à l’âme... Malgré ce nouveau drame, cette femme de conviction a encore la force d’expliquer avec une impressionnante dignité
 : « Quand on appartient à un milieu très privilégié, on doit rendre à la société, sous une forme ou une autre, ce qu’elle vous a apporté et soulager ceux qui sont dans la détresse. » Tel est le secret d’une grande dame qui, plutôt que de mener l’existence frivole d’une princesse des Mille et Une Nuits, a choisi de se faire un prénom.
Yasmin Aga Khan
La princesse dédie sa vie aux autres
Le 23 janvier 2016
Caroline Pigozzi
Yasmin Aga Khan, la fille de Rita Hayworth et d’Ali Khan, est une femme de conviction. Sa vie n'est ni mondaine ni frivole, elle est dédiée à la lutte contre la maladie d’Alzheimer.
Comment oublier ces terribles photos ? A l’aéroport de Londres, l’emblématique Rita Hayworth descend, échevelée, la passerelle d’un avion... A tort, on attribue son comportement à l’alcool... Cette image bouleversante a toujours hanté Yasmin Aga Khan, sa fille. C’est elle qui l’a décidée à se battre pour rendre à Rita Hayworth son honneur perdu.
Un jour du printemps 1983, quatre ans avant la mort de la star à New York, Yasmin monte à la tribune du Congrès américain. Pour témoigner. Sa mère, l’actrice la plus adulée de son temps, est une des innombrables victimes de la maladie d’Alzheimer. Les sévères membres du Congrès sont impressionnés par la beauté de la princesse, son élégance, son panache, mais aussi par sa détermination. Sur sa lancée, elle se rend dans le bureau Ovale pour demander son appui au président Reagan, qui a connu la star à Hollywood quand elle était mariée avec Orson Welles. Ce soutien sera sans faille.
Pour Yasmin Aga Khan, être une « fille de » ne fut pas si simple. Héritière du séducteur Ali Khan, flamboyant prince d’ascendance persane avec autant de moyens que de charme, et d’une icône du cinéma, la demi-sœur de Karim Aga Khan, 49e chef spirituel des ismaéliens, n’a jamais été une enfant gâtée. La jeunesse de Yasmin, orpheline de père à l’âge de 10 ans, fut mi-heureuse, mi-douloureuse. Vingt ans plus tard, la voici confrontée à la détresse de sa mère. Elle va alors pouvoir utiliser son nom prestigieux, et sa notoriété. Au lieu de papillonner avec grâce dans les salons mondains, la princesse rejoint comme bénévole l’association d’Alzheimer, qui compte à l’époque à peine plus d’une vingtaine de membres. Depuis, sous son impulsion, elle s’est développée en 83 branches internationales. Quant au « Rita Hayworth Gala », le dîner de charité qu’elle organise deux fois par an aux Etats-Unis, il a remporté au total 66 millions de dollars !
Elle aurait pu être soprano, mais n'avait plus le cœur à chanter
Yasmin avait pourtant rêvé d’un autre destin. Après des études de musique à l’université de Bennington, elle est encouragée par l’illustre chef d’orchestre Herbert von Karajan. Elle voulait être soprano. Il lui faudra changer brutalement de voie... « Je n’avais plus le cœur à chanter. Je me suis donc consacrée avec amour à ma mère jusqu’à la fin, en mai 1987, à l’éducation de mon fils adoré, Andrew, et à cette cause universelle. »
D’abord mariée avec Basil Embiricos, le père de son unique enfant, puis avec Christopher Jeffries, promoteur immobilier, elle partage depuis quinze ans le quotidien de Blaise Labriola, un chaleureux homme d’affaires d’origine italienne. Elle ne quitte leurs montagnes de l’Utah que pour les besoins de l’association et quand elle va à New York, chaque mois, rendre visite à son fils. Jusqu’à ce matin tragique de décembre 2011 où Andrew, 25 ans, ne s’est pas réveillé. Comme sa mère, il était tourné vers les autres mais avait des rides à l’âme... Malgré ce nouveau drame, cette femme de conviction a encore la force d’expliquer avec une impressionnante dignité
 : « Quand on appartient à un milieu très privilégié, on doit rendre à la société, sous une forme ou une autre, ce qu’elle vous a apporté et soulager ceux qui sont dans la détresse. » Tel est le secret d’une grande dame qui, plutôt que de mener l’existence frivole d’une princesse des Mille et Une Nuits, a choisi de se faire un prénom.
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Yasmin Aga Khan
La princesse dédie sa vie aux autres
Le 23 janvier 2016
Caroline Pigozzi
Yasmin Aga Khan, la fille de Rita Hayworth et d’Ali Khan, est une femme de conviction. Sa vie n'est ni mondaine ni frivole, elle est dédiée à la lutte contre la maladie d’Alzheimer.
Yasmin Aga Khan
The princess dedicates her life to others
On January 23, 2016
Caroline Pigozzi
Yasmin Aga Khan , daughter of Rita Hayworth and Ali Khan, is a woman of conviction. Her life is neither worldly nor frivolous, it is dedicated to the fight against Alzheimer's disease .
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October 27, 2017
The Gold Coast Arts Center and International Film Festival last night paid tribute to Rita Hayworth honoring her with the first Hollywood Golden Era Award. Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Rita Hayworth’s daughter accepted the award that was designed by internationally renowned artist/sculptor Edwina Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill. The event was held in the gorgeous Soho loft of Ms. Sandy’s.
Photo:
Regina Gil, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Budd Burton Moss Photo Magda Katz
The event included Haley Swindal who paid tribute with a Hollywood tribute and a few of the songs Rita Hayworth made famous.
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Budd Burton Moss
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Budd Burton Moss Photo Magda Katz
Budd Burton Moss, Rita Hayworth’s agent and longtime friend paid tribute to her, as Joel Grey, Budd’s longtime friend introduced him.
Joel Grey
Joel Grey Photo Magda Katz
Regina Gil, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Budd Burton Moss
Regina Gil, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Budd Burton Moss Photo Magda Katz
Regina Gil founder and executive director of the Gold Coast Arts Center & International Film Festival presented the award to Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.
Caroline Sorokoff Photo by Stephen Sorokoff
Caroline Sorokoff, director of the Gold Coast International Film Festival and associate director talked about the amazing things the art center does. One of their programs Making Memories is a series of special programs specifically designed for people living with memory loss and their caregivers. Individuals of all ages enjoy clips of classic films, followed by guided conversation and reminiscence. Recognizing that movies have the power to spark memories and create emotional connections, these events present an opportunity to engage in discussion while socializing with others, which most Alzheimer’s and Dementia patients need.
Joel Grey, Richard Thomas
Joel Grey, Richard Thomas Photo Magda Katz
The Festival’s tribute to Rita Hayworth will be held November 11th.
Regina Gil, Edwina Sandys
Regina Gil, Edwina Sandys Photo by Stephen Sorokoff
The Festival will also celebrate the 60th anniversary of Pal Joey, starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak with a screening of the film followed by a live Q&A with Sinatra’s granddaughter, Amanda Erlinger.
October 27, 2017
The Gold Coast Arts Center and International Film Festival last night paid tribute to Rita Hayworth honoring her with the first Hollywood Golden Era Award. Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Rita Hayworth’s daughter accepted the award that was designed by internationally renowned artist/sculptor Edwina Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill. The event was held in the gorgeous Soho loft of Ms. Sandy’s.
Photo:
Regina Gil, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Budd Burton Moss Photo Magda Katz
The event included Haley Swindal who paid tribute with a Hollywood tribute and a few of the songs Rita Hayworth made famous.
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Budd Burton Moss
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Budd Burton Moss Photo Magda Katz
Budd Burton Moss, Rita Hayworth’s agent and longtime friend paid tribute to her, as Joel Grey, Budd’s longtime friend introduced him.
Joel Grey
Joel Grey Photo Magda Katz
Regina Gil, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Budd Burton Moss
Regina Gil, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Budd Burton Moss Photo Magda Katz
Regina Gil founder and executive director of the Gold Coast Arts Center & International Film Festival presented the award to Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.
Caroline Sorokoff Photo by Stephen Sorokoff
Caroline Sorokoff, director of the Gold Coast International Film Festival and associate director talked about the amazing things the art center does. One of their programs Making Memories is a series of special programs specifically designed for people living with memory loss and their caregivers. Individuals of all ages enjoy clips of classic films, followed by guided conversation and reminiscence. Recognizing that movies have the power to spark memories and create emotional connections, these events present an opportunity to engage in discussion while socializing with others, which most Alzheimer’s and Dementia patients need.
Joel Grey, Richard Thomas
Joel Grey, Richard Thomas Photo Magda Katz
The Festival’s tribute to Rita Hayworth will be held November 11th.
Regina Gil, Edwina Sandys
Regina Gil, Edwina Sandys Photo by Stephen Sorokoff
The Festival will also celebrate the 60th anniversary of Pal Joey, starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak with a screening of the film followed by a live Q&A with Sinatra’s granddaughter, Amanda Erlinger.
Anne and Jay McInerney Host 2018 Rita Hayworth Gala Kickoff, Raise Alzheimer's Awareness
Excerpt:
The Alzheimer’s Association held their international conference last week; there were 6,000 attendees from 68 countries,” said Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, who started the Rita Hayworth Gala 35 years ago, in honor of her mother. “There is currently an exciting study, going on to a Phase III trial, which has to do with reducing the amyloid plaque in the brain. In the meantime, taking care of your heart and your blood pressure, being active, exercising, and being sociable can lower your risk of dementia.”
Since its inception, the Rita Hayworth Gala has raised $75 million to combat Alzheimer’s. This year, Khan will be chairing with Anne Hearst McInerney, and the theme will be Denim and Diamonds. Rolex will once again be the sponsor.
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Excerpt:
The Alzheimer’s Association held their international conference last week; there were 6,000 attendees from 68 countries,” said Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, who started the Rita Hayworth Gala 35 years ago, in honor of her mother. “There is currently an exciting study, going on to a Phase III trial, which has to do with reducing the amyloid plaque in the brain. In the meantime, taking care of your heart and your blood pressure, being active, exercising, and being sociable can lower your risk of dementia.”
Since its inception, the Rita Hayworth Gala has raised $75 million to combat Alzheimer’s. This year, Khan will be chairing with Anne Hearst McInerney, and the theme will be Denim and Diamonds. Rolex will once again be the sponsor.
More....
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Princess Yasmin Aga Khan- Rita Hayworth Alzheimer’s Association Gala 2018
BY ISMAILIMAIL POSTED ON OCTOBER 25, 2018
On Tuesday, October 23, 2018, the Alzheimer’s Assocation hosted it’s 35th annual Rita Hayworth Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street. The event raised $1.6 million for critical Alzheimer’s care, support and research programs. Willie Geist, host of NBC News’ Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist and co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, emceed the event and toated Rita Hayworth’s 100th birthday, which would have taken place on October 17. The evening also included remarks from Gala General Chair and Founder Princess Yasmin Aga Khan and 2018 Gala Co-Chair Anne Hearst McInerney, along with David Hyde Pierce and Oliver Johnson Kennan, and special live performances from rising country music star Jay Allen and singer-songwriter Patty Smyth McEnroe.
Alzheimer Gala 2018 Pictures and Images
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BY ISMAILIMAIL POSTED ON OCTOBER 25, 2018
On Tuesday, October 23, 2018, the Alzheimer’s Assocation hosted it’s 35th annual Rita Hayworth Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street. The event raised $1.6 million for critical Alzheimer’s care, support and research programs. Willie Geist, host of NBC News’ Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist and co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, emceed the event and toated Rita Hayworth’s 100th birthday, which would have taken place on October 17. The evening also included remarks from Gala General Chair and Founder Princess Yasmin Aga Khan and 2018 Gala Co-Chair Anne Hearst McInerney, along with David Hyde Pierce and Oliver Johnson Kennan, and special live performances from rising country music star Jay Allen and singer-songwriter Patty Smyth McEnroe.
Alzheimer Gala 2018 Pictures and Images
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Rita Hayworth’s daughter describes late movie star’s 'very painful' battle with Alzheimer’s
To the world, Rita Hayworth was a fiery-haired love goddess who captivated audiences on the big screen with a single slip of a satin glove, served as one of America’s favorite pinups during World War II and kept Fred Astaire on his toes — but to Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, she was just mom.
The actress, who would have turned 100 on October 17, passed away in 1987 in her New York City apartment at age 68 from Alzheimer’s disease. Her youngest daughter has since founded the annual Rita Hayworth Gala through the Alzheimer’s Association to keep her mother’s legacy alive, all while raising funds to support studying the disease in hopes of finding a cure.
The 2017 event raised $2 million and a grand total of over $75 million. The 35th annual gala takes place on October 23 in New York City.
But to Khan, 68, presiding over the gala continues to be bittersweet.
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To the world, Rita Hayworth was a fiery-haired love goddess who captivated audiences on the big screen with a single slip of a satin glove, served as one of America’s favorite pinups during World War II and kept Fred Astaire on his toes — but to Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, she was just mom.
The actress, who would have turned 100 on October 17, passed away in 1987 in her New York City apartment at age 68 from Alzheimer’s disease. Her youngest daughter has since founded the annual Rita Hayworth Gala through the Alzheimer’s Association to keep her mother’s legacy alive, all while raising funds to support studying the disease in hopes of finding a cure.
The 2017 event raised $2 million and a grand total of over $75 million. The 35th annual gala takes place on October 23 in New York City.
But to Khan, 68, presiding over the gala continues to be bittersweet.
Video and more at:
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/r ... ry-painful
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Oct 25, 2018, 10:46am
35th Annual Rita Hayworth Gala Features Jay Allen, Raises $1.6 Million To Combat Alzheimer's
Bettina Zilkha
Contributor
Arts
The Alzheimer's Association held its 35th Annual Rita Hayworth Gala Tuesday night at Cipriani 42nd Street. The theme of the event, Blazing Trails, was a celebration of breakthroughs that are being made in eradicating Alzheimer's, and a nod to Hayworth's role in the movie They Came to Cordura. The evening raised $1.6 million for critical Alzheimer’s care, support and research programs. More than 5.7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and it is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan founded the Gala in memory of her mother, Rita Hayworth, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at a very early age. As her mother's primary caretaker, Khan experienced the devastation of the disease up close. When Khan's dear friend Libet Johnson was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, also at an early age, Khan's heart sank for the struggle Johnson would have to endure.
“Tonight, we’ve been talking about Blazing Trails, and my dear friend Elizabeth Ross Johnson blazed many trails in her lifetime," said Khan. "Libet was passionate, kind, adventurous and a thoughtful and devoted friend to me - seeing me through some very difficult times with love, compassion and understanding… Libet brought light and love into the lives of all who knew her and I am forever grateful for her friendship.”
Known for their philanthropic endeavors, the Johnson family have been deeply involved with the Alzheimer's Association, and Khan presented them with the Champion Award in Libet's memory.
The most powerful moment of the evening was country superstar Jay Allen's performance of his hit song, Blank Stares, written about his mother who is living with Alzheimer's. Allen and his band mate slowly brought his mother on stage, and as she put her arms around him in a loving embrace, he performed this heartbreaking song, knowing full well she had no idea who he was. There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
“My mama is living with Alzheimer’s at age 54,"said Allen. "It is because of her and the more than 5 million Americans living with this disease that I joined the Alzheimer’s Association, to inspire hope and accelerate research until we find a cure.”
“I hardly can think of a family I know that has not been touched by Alzheimer’s," said Geist. "There are nearly 6 million Americans suffering with the disease, and that means there are many millions more caring for them, and suffering themselves with the utterly devastating heartbreak of watching someone they love drift away. The Alzheimer’s Association is aggressively fighting to put a stop to it, and I’ll always do whatever small part I can to help that effort."
Anne Hearst McInerney, who Co-Chaired the evening with Khan, made sure to bring a little levity to what could have been a somber evening. The dress code was Black Tie Denim and Diamonds, and McInerney's table didn't disappoint. Cowboy hats and Navajo jewelry abounded. Sandra and Eric Ripert made sure to wear bandanas around their necks, Donna Dixon and John McEnroe wore cowboy hats. Stellene Vollandes, Jay McInerney, Nicole Miller and Candace Bushnell enjoyed corn bread with their Italian-style short ribs (this was Cipriani, after all).
Hearst McInerney got the California Cowboys, her favorite Western band, to play. After a few songs, Scandal's Patty Smyth McEnroe performed a short set with them, an upbeat way to close out the evening.
“I have been involved with the Alzheimer’s Association for a long time," said Hearst McInerney. "I feel grateful to have been able to work with such a great group of women to advance this important cause.”
Oct 25, 2018, 10:46am
35th Annual Rita Hayworth Gala Features Jay Allen, Raises $1.6 Million To Combat Alzheimer's
Bettina Zilkha
Contributor
Arts
The Alzheimer's Association held its 35th Annual Rita Hayworth Gala Tuesday night at Cipriani 42nd Street. The theme of the event, Blazing Trails, was a celebration of breakthroughs that are being made in eradicating Alzheimer's, and a nod to Hayworth's role in the movie They Came to Cordura. The evening raised $1.6 million for critical Alzheimer’s care, support and research programs. More than 5.7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and it is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan founded the Gala in memory of her mother, Rita Hayworth, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at a very early age. As her mother's primary caretaker, Khan experienced the devastation of the disease up close. When Khan's dear friend Libet Johnson was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, also at an early age, Khan's heart sank for the struggle Johnson would have to endure.
“Tonight, we’ve been talking about Blazing Trails, and my dear friend Elizabeth Ross Johnson blazed many trails in her lifetime," said Khan. "Libet was passionate, kind, adventurous and a thoughtful and devoted friend to me - seeing me through some very difficult times with love, compassion and understanding… Libet brought light and love into the lives of all who knew her and I am forever grateful for her friendship.”
Known for their philanthropic endeavors, the Johnson family have been deeply involved with the Alzheimer's Association, and Khan presented them with the Champion Award in Libet's memory.
The most powerful moment of the evening was country superstar Jay Allen's performance of his hit song, Blank Stares, written about his mother who is living with Alzheimer's. Allen and his band mate slowly brought his mother on stage, and as she put her arms around him in a loving embrace, he performed this heartbreaking song, knowing full well she had no idea who he was. There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
“My mama is living with Alzheimer’s at age 54,"said Allen. "It is because of her and the more than 5 million Americans living with this disease that I joined the Alzheimer’s Association, to inspire hope and accelerate research until we find a cure.”
“I hardly can think of a family I know that has not been touched by Alzheimer’s," said Geist. "There are nearly 6 million Americans suffering with the disease, and that means there are many millions more caring for them, and suffering themselves with the utterly devastating heartbreak of watching someone they love drift away. The Alzheimer’s Association is aggressively fighting to put a stop to it, and I’ll always do whatever small part I can to help that effort."
Anne Hearst McInerney, who Co-Chaired the evening with Khan, made sure to bring a little levity to what could have been a somber evening. The dress code was Black Tie Denim and Diamonds, and McInerney's table didn't disappoint. Cowboy hats and Navajo jewelry abounded. Sandra and Eric Ripert made sure to wear bandanas around their necks, Donna Dixon and John McEnroe wore cowboy hats. Stellene Vollandes, Jay McInerney, Nicole Miller and Candace Bushnell enjoyed corn bread with their Italian-style short ribs (this was Cipriani, after all).
Hearst McInerney got the California Cowboys, her favorite Western band, to play. After a few songs, Scandal's Patty Smyth McEnroe performed a short set with them, an upbeat way to close out the evening.
“I have been involved with the Alzheimer’s Association for a long time," said Hearst McInerney. "I feel grateful to have been able to work with such a great group of women to advance this important cause.”
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Princess Yasmin Aga Khan discusses her mother, Rita Hayworth, and Alzheimer’s disease
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Princess Yasmin Aga Khan poses for a photograph at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Ont. on March 29, 2019.
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When Hollywood star Rita Hayworth was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1981 at the age of 62, her daughter Princess Yasmin Aga Khan took on the role of her conservator.
In addition to caring for her mother, Princess Yasmin, who is a step-sister of the Ismaili Muslim spiritual leader, the Aga Khan, also became an early spokesperson for those with Alzheimer’s, bringing public attention to a neurodegenerative disease that few openly discussed.
On Friday, she was in Toronto to participate in a film screening and panel discussion at the Aga Khan Museum on the benefits of the arts for individuals living with dementia.
Princess Yasmin, who is president of Alzheimer’s Disease International, a federation of Alzheimer’s associations worldwide, spoke with The Globe and Mail about how the disease affected her family.
What was it like when your mother began showing signs of Alzheimer’s?
She started with symptoms in her early 50s. There was a lot of confusion, disorientation, mood changes, and she became quite aggressive. She’d hear voices outside the house and call the police. The police would come and there was nobody there.
She had also been drinking – not heavily, but the alcohol exacerbated the plaques and tangles in the brain that were being created with the disease. I thought she had this serious drinking problem, but there was this element of brain disease.
She was forgetful, accusatory. It was confusing and difficult, and it wasn’t until she actually had a collapse that I could get her to a doctor.
What was it like to diagnose Alzheimer’s then?
She had a brain scan and she had memory testing by a neurologist. And between the brain scan and the memory testing – like “who’s the president of the United States?" – they actually diagnosed her then, which is quite unbelievable. It was confirmed on autopsy when she passed, where you could see the plaques and tangles. But what we could see in the scan back then in ’81 was shrinkage of the brain.
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Alzheimer’s wasn’t widely talked about at the time. What prompted you to open up about it?
The Alzheimer’s Association in the United States, founded by Jerome Stone, they found me because they had heard rumours that my mom was diagnosed.
Jerry said, “We’re a small family group, and we would like to know if you’d like to join us and to spread the word about this disease.”
I said, “Absolutely.”
I was the caregiver, but they were my caregivers. They were there to support me and to help guide me on what to do and what to expect. It was a very small organization at the time; now it’s a national and international organization. Then, the press came to me. I talked about it and kept talking about it.
A lot of people are still reluctant to talk about dementia.
That’s our biggest problem, and I’m not sure why. There are famous people not coming forward, not talking about it. Maybe it has to do with their careers. Embarrassment? I don’t know.
How did art help your mother?
She actually painted. I think she started painting in the early stages of her disease. She loved it. It brought her peace and she had some talent. She also used to love to play the castanets.
There weren’t medications at the time. Today we do have medications, which can help slow it down for some people, and also help the mood. I think that’s where painting comes in and music comes in, with mood, to help relieve the stress.
Did you find an outlet too?
I coped because I had the Alzheimer’s Association. I was very fortunate, which many people aren’t, to have 24/7 nursing care. They really helped me and saved me. My friends and family were also there for emotional support. But it was a difficult road.
When I went to university, I was a music major. Timpani was my specialty, and voice. I was going to go to Europe to study, and that’s when my mother’s disease heightened, and it was really necessary that I step in. Then I said, okay, this is more important than my career in music. And that was the right decision. I don’t have any regrets.
What message do you want to share with others?
That there’s hope. There’s education on the disease. That one can change the mood by introducing art. It’s not a cure. It’s a momentary time of pleasure.
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan discusses her mother, Rita Hayworth, and Alzheimer’s disease
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Princess Yasmin Aga Khan poses for a photograph at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Ont. on March 29, 2019.
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When Hollywood star Rita Hayworth was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1981 at the age of 62, her daughter Princess Yasmin Aga Khan took on the role of her conservator.
In addition to caring for her mother, Princess Yasmin, who is a step-sister of the Ismaili Muslim spiritual leader, the Aga Khan, also became an early spokesperson for those with Alzheimer’s, bringing public attention to a neurodegenerative disease that few openly discussed.
On Friday, she was in Toronto to participate in a film screening and panel discussion at the Aga Khan Museum on the benefits of the arts for individuals living with dementia.
Princess Yasmin, who is president of Alzheimer’s Disease International, a federation of Alzheimer’s associations worldwide, spoke with The Globe and Mail about how the disease affected her family.
What was it like when your mother began showing signs of Alzheimer’s?
She started with symptoms in her early 50s. There was a lot of confusion, disorientation, mood changes, and she became quite aggressive. She’d hear voices outside the house and call the police. The police would come and there was nobody there.
She had also been drinking – not heavily, but the alcohol exacerbated the plaques and tangles in the brain that were being created with the disease. I thought she had this serious drinking problem, but there was this element of brain disease.
She was forgetful, accusatory. It was confusing and difficult, and it wasn’t until she actually had a collapse that I could get her to a doctor.
What was it like to diagnose Alzheimer’s then?
She had a brain scan and she had memory testing by a neurologist. And between the brain scan and the memory testing – like “who’s the president of the United States?" – they actually diagnosed her then, which is quite unbelievable. It was confirmed on autopsy when she passed, where you could see the plaques and tangles. But what we could see in the scan back then in ’81 was shrinkage of the brain.
Story continues below advertisement
Alzheimer’s wasn’t widely talked about at the time. What prompted you to open up about it?
The Alzheimer’s Association in the United States, founded by Jerome Stone, they found me because they had heard rumours that my mom was diagnosed.
Jerry said, “We’re a small family group, and we would like to know if you’d like to join us and to spread the word about this disease.”
I said, “Absolutely.”
I was the caregiver, but they were my caregivers. They were there to support me and to help guide me on what to do and what to expect. It was a very small organization at the time; now it’s a national and international organization. Then, the press came to me. I talked about it and kept talking about it.
A lot of people are still reluctant to talk about dementia.
That’s our biggest problem, and I’m not sure why. There are famous people not coming forward, not talking about it. Maybe it has to do with their careers. Embarrassment? I don’t know.
How did art help your mother?
She actually painted. I think she started painting in the early stages of her disease. She loved it. It brought her peace and she had some talent. She also used to love to play the castanets.
There weren’t medications at the time. Today we do have medications, which can help slow it down for some people, and also help the mood. I think that’s where painting comes in and music comes in, with mood, to help relieve the stress.
Did you find an outlet too?
I coped because I had the Alzheimer’s Association. I was very fortunate, which many people aren’t, to have 24/7 nursing care. They really helped me and saved me. My friends and family were also there for emotional support. But it was a difficult road.
When I went to university, I was a music major. Timpani was my specialty, and voice. I was going to go to Europe to study, and that’s when my mother’s disease heightened, and it was really necessary that I step in. Then I said, okay, this is more important than my career in music. And that was the right decision. I don’t have any regrets.
What message do you want to share with others?
That there’s hope. There’s education on the disease. That one can change the mood by introducing art. It’s not a cure. It’s a momentary time of pleasure.
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Rita Hayworth's Children: All About Her Daughters Yasmin and Rebecca
Nicole Briese
Sat, September 21, 2024
Rita Hayworth's daughter Yasmin was the actress’ caretaker in her final years
Golden Age actress Rita Hayworth was married five times, but it was her two children, daughters Rebecca Welles and Yasmin Aga Khan, for whom her love endured.
“She was just a wonderful mother,” Yasmin told Fox News in 2018. “So loving, so caring ... I just remember her as a loving, loving mother.”
Recalling days spent on the golf course with Hayworth, she added: “I had a wonderful childhood.”
Rita first became a mom in December 1944 with the birth of her daughter Rebecca, whom she shared with actor and director Orson Welles. Five years later, having split from Welles and married her third husband, Prince Aly Salomone Khan, she welcomed Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.
Yasmin served as her mother’s caretaker for the last six years of her life and was vocal about the bond she shared with the movie star, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1981.
“We had a close mother-daughter relationship filled with mutual respect and love,” she wrote in a cover story for PEOPLE following Hayworth’s May 1987 death. “My sense of responsibility and duty to my mother was strong."
Here is everything to know about Rita Hayworth’s children, Rebecca and Yasmin.
Rebecca Welles
<p>Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images</p> American dancer and actress Rita Hayworth holidaying with her daughter Rebecca in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1950. Rebecca is the daughter of Orson Welles.
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American dancer and actress Rita Hayworth holidaying with her daughter Rebecca in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1950. Rebecca is the daughter of Orson Welles.
Hayworth’s first child, Rebecca Welles, was born in Santa Monica, Calif., on Dec. 17, 1944, one year after she married Orson Welles. The actor also shared Christopher Welles with his ex-wife Virginia Nicholson and later welcomed daughter Beatrice Welles with Paola Mori.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the couple separated when Rebecca was less than 2 years old and Hayworth moved into a new home with her daughter in March 1946. The actress filed for divorce in November 1947.
During Rebecca’s childhood, she was photographed with Hayworth in many different locales, including Gstaad, Switzerland, London, New York City and Paris. As a teenager, Rebecca followed in her parents’ footsteps, taking up acting at the Pasadena Playhouse.
While there, she embarked upon a whirlwind romance with fellow actor Michael Flores and got engaged within three weeks of meeting him. The couple called things off that same year at Hayworth’s urging, however. “I asked them to think it over and consider whether they were really ready for the responsibility,” the You Were Never Lovelier star told the Valley Morning Star in 1965. “They did and decided to call it off.”
Rebecca stayed committed to her theater studies, focusing on the craft as well as advanced French, geology and English literature at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash.
In 1966, she gave birth to a child named Marc McKerrow, whom she placed for adoption. Rebecca didn't reconnect with her son before she died, though his story was later told in a 2008 documentary called Prodigal Sons, which chronicled McKerrow’s journey to trace his roots.
<p>Bettmann/Getty Images</p> Lake Tahoe, Nevada: Seventeen-months-old Yasmin, daughter of actress Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan, is shown (left) playing with her famous mother and six-year-old half-sister, Rebecca Welles, on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Glamorous Rita has nearly completed the six-weeks residence requirements prior to asking for a divorce from her royal mate.
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Lake Tahoe, Nevada: Seventeen-months-old Yasmin, daughter of actress Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan, is shown (left) playing with her famous mother and six-year-old half-sister, Rebecca Welles, on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Glamorous Rita has nearly completed the six-weeks residence requirements prior to asking for a divorce from her royal mate.
Rebecca later found love with sculptor Perry Moade, and TIME reported that the two were married in a private ceremony in Tacoma on March 23, 1970.
Though the theater student appeared in a 1970 ad with her father for Jim Beam, she grew distant from her parents, reportedly telling Roto in 1972, per The Telegraph, “Sometimes I am [really] bitter about ... what being a child of celebrities has done to me.” She added, “Mother and Father have never been to my home in Tacoma. Not even when my husband Perry Moede and I were married. As far as they are concerned, I’m on my own.”
Orson died of an apparent heart attack in 1985 and two years later, Rebecca also lost her mother to Alzheimer’s disease. She was photographed placing flowers on her mother’s casket alongside sister Yasmin at her May 18 funeral.
When Rebecca died in 2004 at her home in Tacoma at the age of 60, she was married to Guy Manning, a man she met shortly after her graduation from the University of Puget Sound. According to her obituary, she was also a stepmom to his three children, Kristine Manning Scholtz and Michael and Brandi Manning. Marc was also named in her obituary.
Per his own obituary, Rebecca’s son died of complications from a nocturnal seizure on June 18, 2010.
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, 74
<p>Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Alzheimer's Association</p> Princess Yasmin Aga Khan attends the 2022 Alzheimer's Association Imagine Benefit, built on the legacy of the Rita Hayworth Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on October 24, 2022 in New York City.
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Princess Yasmin Aga Khan attends the 2022 Alzheimer's Association Imagine Benefit, built on the legacy of the Rita Hayworth Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on October 24, 2022 in New York City.
Hayworth gave birth to her second daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, with her then-husband Prince Aly on Dec. 18, 1949. Aly was also the father of Prince Karim Aga Khan IV and Prince Amyn Muhammad, whom he shared with Joan Yarde-Buller.
Though Hayworth and Aly's marriage ended in divorce in 1953, they maintained an amicable relationship after their split, according to Yasmin, who spent summers with her father in the South of France. “My earliest memories of my mother and father together were when I was 8 or 9,” she wrote for PEOPLE in June 1987, adding, “Theirs was a truly good relationship.”
She also shared fond memories of time spent alone with her mother in Beverly Hills, Calif. “I remember ... spending a lot of time with her just sitting by the pool at our home and talking,” she wrote in 1987. “We would swim, laugh and giggle, and talk just like two close friends. We really enjoyed being with each other, sharing experiences and love.”
While Hayworth would occasionally bring her younger daughter along on set, she kept a close eye on her at home. “She was quite strict,” Yasmin wrote. “She allowed me to watch television only on weekends when there was no school. In my early teens, I wasn’t allowed to go out on dates, but could have my boyfriends and girlfriends over to the house. I wasn’t allowed to go on a date alone until I was 16.”
When Yasmin was just 10 years old, her father was killed in a car accident. “His death was a deep emotional shock to Mother,” Yasmin recalled. “Probably it was at that time that the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease began.”
She described her experience dealing with her mother’s illness as a boarding school student, telling Classic Chicago in April 2023, “My mom started exhibiting ‘odd’ behavior. She would ask me the same questions and seemed very confused. I was concerned, but had no idea what to do.”
Yasmin studied classical singing from a young age and attended both the Buxton School in Williamstown, Mass., and Bennington College, but abandoned her plans of becoming a musician in order to care for Hayworth. “When I went to university, I was a music major,” she told Globe and Mail in 2019. “I was going to go to Europe to study, and that’s when my mother’s disease heightened, and it was really necessary that I step in. I said, ‘Okay, this is more important than my career in music.' And that was the right decision. I don’t have any regrets.”
<p>Sonia Moskowitz/Images/Getty Images</p> Rita Hayworth and Yasmin Khan circa 1984 in New York City.
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Rita Hayworth and Yasmin Khan circa 1984 in New York City.
In June 1981, Yasmin was appointed as her mother’s conservator after Hayworth was declared legally unable to care for herself by a Los Angeles court, per The New York Times. She relocated the actress to New York to live near her.
Hayworth’s youngest daughter also became heavily involved in philanthropy. “My fight to end Alzheimer’s began in 1981 when my mother ... was diagnosed with the disease,” she told Classic Chicago. “I made the decision to share her story in the hopes of helping others. I knew this would become my life’s work.”
In 1984, the princess launched the Rita Hayworth Gala, which has raised more than $86 million to “advance the mission of the Alzheimer’s Association,” in her mother’s honor. Yasmin celebrated her annual Rita Hayworth Gala in Chicago in September 2024.
She also became a member of several Alzheimer’s organizations, including Alzheimer’s Disease International, of which she became the president, and the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association of America, of which she served as the vice president.
When Yasmin married Basil Embiricos on May 15, 1985, the couple took Hayworth into account. “The decision to proceed with a civil function now ... was taken in view of the failing health of Princess Yasmin's mother, Rita Hayworth,” a statement read per The New York Times.
Later that year, Yasmin gave birth to a son, Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos. “I would bring him in and talk to [my mom, who] ... was right next door,” Yasmin shared with Fox News in 2018. “I wasn’t sure if she knew or not, but I thought it was important to be there.”
Hayworth died at the age of 68 on May 14, 1987. Two years later, The New York Times reported that Yasmin, who divorced Basil in 1987, had tied the knot with real estate developer Christopher Michael Jeffries in a private ceremony at her home. Their romance didn’t last however, and the pair divorced in 1993.
The princess suffered another heartbreaking loss on Dec. 4, 2011, when Andrew, who was also involved with research efforts for the Alzheimer’s Association, was found dead in his New York City apartment at the age of 25. “Princess Yasmin Aga Khan and her former husband are deeply saddened by the death of their son Andrew Embiricos,” a spokesperson for the Aga Khan Foundation told PEOPLE at the time.
In 2019, Princess Yasmin was honored with an Alzheimer’s Association Lifetime Achievement Award, per Deseret News. In 2022, she became a Knight of the Legion of Honor, an award considered to be France’s highest order of merit.
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Rita Hayworth's Children: All About Her Daughters Yasmin and Rebecca
Nicole Briese
Sat, September 21, 2024
Rita Hayworth's daughter Yasmin was the actress’ caretaker in her final years
Golden Age actress Rita Hayworth was married five times, but it was her two children, daughters Rebecca Welles and Yasmin Aga Khan, for whom her love endured.
“She was just a wonderful mother,” Yasmin told Fox News in 2018. “So loving, so caring ... I just remember her as a loving, loving mother.”
Recalling days spent on the golf course with Hayworth, she added: “I had a wonderful childhood.”
Rita first became a mom in December 1944 with the birth of her daughter Rebecca, whom she shared with actor and director Orson Welles. Five years later, having split from Welles and married her third husband, Prince Aly Salomone Khan, she welcomed Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.
Yasmin served as her mother’s caretaker for the last six years of her life and was vocal about the bond she shared with the movie star, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1981.
“We had a close mother-daughter relationship filled with mutual respect and love,” she wrote in a cover story for PEOPLE following Hayworth’s May 1987 death. “My sense of responsibility and duty to my mother was strong."
Here is everything to know about Rita Hayworth’s children, Rebecca and Yasmin.
Rebecca Welles
<p>Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images</p> American dancer and actress Rita Hayworth holidaying with her daughter Rebecca in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1950. Rebecca is the daughter of Orson Welles.
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American dancer and actress Rita Hayworth holidaying with her daughter Rebecca in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1950. Rebecca is the daughter of Orson Welles.
Hayworth’s first child, Rebecca Welles, was born in Santa Monica, Calif., on Dec. 17, 1944, one year after she married Orson Welles. The actor also shared Christopher Welles with his ex-wife Virginia Nicholson and later welcomed daughter Beatrice Welles with Paola Mori.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the couple separated when Rebecca was less than 2 years old and Hayworth moved into a new home with her daughter in March 1946. The actress filed for divorce in November 1947.
During Rebecca’s childhood, she was photographed with Hayworth in many different locales, including Gstaad, Switzerland, London, New York City and Paris. As a teenager, Rebecca followed in her parents’ footsteps, taking up acting at the Pasadena Playhouse.
While there, she embarked upon a whirlwind romance with fellow actor Michael Flores and got engaged within three weeks of meeting him. The couple called things off that same year at Hayworth’s urging, however. “I asked them to think it over and consider whether they were really ready for the responsibility,” the You Were Never Lovelier star told the Valley Morning Star in 1965. “They did and decided to call it off.”
Rebecca stayed committed to her theater studies, focusing on the craft as well as advanced French, geology and English literature at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash.
In 1966, she gave birth to a child named Marc McKerrow, whom she placed for adoption. Rebecca didn't reconnect with her son before she died, though his story was later told in a 2008 documentary called Prodigal Sons, which chronicled McKerrow’s journey to trace his roots.
<p>Bettmann/Getty Images</p> Lake Tahoe, Nevada: Seventeen-months-old Yasmin, daughter of actress Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan, is shown (left) playing with her famous mother and six-year-old half-sister, Rebecca Welles, on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Glamorous Rita has nearly completed the six-weeks residence requirements prior to asking for a divorce from her royal mate.
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Lake Tahoe, Nevada: Seventeen-months-old Yasmin, daughter of actress Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan, is shown (left) playing with her famous mother and six-year-old half-sister, Rebecca Welles, on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Glamorous Rita has nearly completed the six-weeks residence requirements prior to asking for a divorce from her royal mate.
Rebecca later found love with sculptor Perry Moade, and TIME reported that the two were married in a private ceremony in Tacoma on March 23, 1970.
Though the theater student appeared in a 1970 ad with her father for Jim Beam, she grew distant from her parents, reportedly telling Roto in 1972, per The Telegraph, “Sometimes I am [really] bitter about ... what being a child of celebrities has done to me.” She added, “Mother and Father have never been to my home in Tacoma. Not even when my husband Perry Moede and I were married. As far as they are concerned, I’m on my own.”
Orson died of an apparent heart attack in 1985 and two years later, Rebecca also lost her mother to Alzheimer’s disease. She was photographed placing flowers on her mother’s casket alongside sister Yasmin at her May 18 funeral.
When Rebecca died in 2004 at her home in Tacoma at the age of 60, she was married to Guy Manning, a man she met shortly after her graduation from the University of Puget Sound. According to her obituary, she was also a stepmom to his three children, Kristine Manning Scholtz and Michael and Brandi Manning. Marc was also named in her obituary.
Per his own obituary, Rebecca’s son died of complications from a nocturnal seizure on June 18, 2010.
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, 74
<p>Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Alzheimer's Association</p> Princess Yasmin Aga Khan attends the 2022 Alzheimer's Association Imagine Benefit, built on the legacy of the Rita Hayworth Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on October 24, 2022 in New York City.
Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Alzheimer's Association
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan attends the 2022 Alzheimer's Association Imagine Benefit, built on the legacy of the Rita Hayworth Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on October 24, 2022 in New York City.
Hayworth gave birth to her second daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, with her then-husband Prince Aly on Dec. 18, 1949. Aly was also the father of Prince Karim Aga Khan IV and Prince Amyn Muhammad, whom he shared with Joan Yarde-Buller.
Though Hayworth and Aly's marriage ended in divorce in 1953, they maintained an amicable relationship after their split, according to Yasmin, who spent summers with her father in the South of France. “My earliest memories of my mother and father together were when I was 8 or 9,” she wrote for PEOPLE in June 1987, adding, “Theirs was a truly good relationship.”
She also shared fond memories of time spent alone with her mother in Beverly Hills, Calif. “I remember ... spending a lot of time with her just sitting by the pool at our home and talking,” she wrote in 1987. “We would swim, laugh and giggle, and talk just like two close friends. We really enjoyed being with each other, sharing experiences and love.”
While Hayworth would occasionally bring her younger daughter along on set, she kept a close eye on her at home. “She was quite strict,” Yasmin wrote. “She allowed me to watch television only on weekends when there was no school. In my early teens, I wasn’t allowed to go out on dates, but could have my boyfriends and girlfriends over to the house. I wasn’t allowed to go on a date alone until I was 16.”
When Yasmin was just 10 years old, her father was killed in a car accident. “His death was a deep emotional shock to Mother,” Yasmin recalled. “Probably it was at that time that the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease began.”
She described her experience dealing with her mother’s illness as a boarding school student, telling Classic Chicago in April 2023, “My mom started exhibiting ‘odd’ behavior. She would ask me the same questions and seemed very confused. I was concerned, but had no idea what to do.”
Yasmin studied classical singing from a young age and attended both the Buxton School in Williamstown, Mass., and Bennington College, but abandoned her plans of becoming a musician in order to care for Hayworth. “When I went to university, I was a music major,” she told Globe and Mail in 2019. “I was going to go to Europe to study, and that’s when my mother’s disease heightened, and it was really necessary that I step in. I said, ‘Okay, this is more important than my career in music.' And that was the right decision. I don’t have any regrets.”
<p>Sonia Moskowitz/Images/Getty Images</p> Rita Hayworth and Yasmin Khan circa 1984 in New York City.
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Rita Hayworth and Yasmin Khan circa 1984 in New York City.
In June 1981, Yasmin was appointed as her mother’s conservator after Hayworth was declared legally unable to care for herself by a Los Angeles court, per The New York Times. She relocated the actress to New York to live near her.
Hayworth’s youngest daughter also became heavily involved in philanthropy. “My fight to end Alzheimer’s began in 1981 when my mother ... was diagnosed with the disease,” she told Classic Chicago. “I made the decision to share her story in the hopes of helping others. I knew this would become my life’s work.”
In 1984, the princess launched the Rita Hayworth Gala, which has raised more than $86 million to “advance the mission of the Alzheimer’s Association,” in her mother’s honor. Yasmin celebrated her annual Rita Hayworth Gala in Chicago in September 2024.
She also became a member of several Alzheimer’s organizations, including Alzheimer’s Disease International, of which she became the president, and the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association of America, of which she served as the vice president.
When Yasmin married Basil Embiricos on May 15, 1985, the couple took Hayworth into account. “The decision to proceed with a civil function now ... was taken in view of the failing health of Princess Yasmin's mother, Rita Hayworth,” a statement read per The New York Times.
Later that year, Yasmin gave birth to a son, Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos. “I would bring him in and talk to [my mom, who] ... was right next door,” Yasmin shared with Fox News in 2018. “I wasn’t sure if she knew or not, but I thought it was important to be there.”
Hayworth died at the age of 68 on May 14, 1987. Two years later, The New York Times reported that Yasmin, who divorced Basil in 1987, had tied the knot with real estate developer Christopher Michael Jeffries in a private ceremony at her home. Their romance didn’t last however, and the pair divorced in 1993.
The princess suffered another heartbreaking loss on Dec. 4, 2011, when Andrew, who was also involved with research efforts for the Alzheimer’s Association, was found dead in his New York City apartment at the age of 25. “Princess Yasmin Aga Khan and her former husband are deeply saddened by the death of their son Andrew Embiricos,” a spokesperson for the Aga Khan Foundation told PEOPLE at the time.
In 2019, Princess Yasmin was honored with an Alzheimer’s Association Lifetime Achievement Award, per Deseret News. In 2022, she became a Knight of the Legion of Honor, an award considered to be France’s highest order of merit.
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