Marita Lorenz, who told tales of Fidel Castro and President Kennedy, dies at 80
Sep. 5, 2019 at 11:28 am Updated Sep. 5, 2019 at 1:17 pm
1 of 2 | Marita Lorenz with Fidel Castro aboard a cruise ship in Havana Harbor in 1959. On the other side of Castro is her father, Heinrich, the captain of the ship. Ms. Lorenz, who became pregnant after an affair with Castro, died on Aug. 31 in Oberhausen, Germany. She was 80. (AP Photo, 1959)
By Sam Roberts
The New York Times
Marita Lorenz, who became pregnant after an affair with Fidel Castro, but who balked at poisoning the Cuban dictator in a U.S.-linked plot by counter-revolutionaries, died on Aug. 31 in Oberhausen, Germany. She was 80.
The cause was cardiac failure, her daughter, Monica Mercedes Pérez Jiménez, said.
The daughter of an American actress with whom she was interned as a child in a concentration camp and a father who commanded a U-boat fleet, Ms. Lorenz led a swashbuckling life so implausible that separating the morsels of reality from what may have been unprovable or illusory was, at times, virtually impossible.
Her romance with Castro and another with Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the Venezuelan generalissimo who fathered their daughter, both appear to have been confirmed. But whether she and Castro produced a son named Andre, who grew up to be a pediatrician in Cuba, is arguable.
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