- Ira was only fifteen years old when she married thirty-one-year-old Prinz Alfonso von und zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg in 1955. She later claimed her parents had threatened to disown her and send her to a convent if she refused to enter the marriage. After their divorce, Alfonso went on to marry actress Jocelyn Lane and had a daughter with model Heidi Balzer.
- Two children with Prinz Alfonso von und zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg: Prince Christopher Victorio Egon Humberto von Hohenlohe-Langenburg, born 8 November 1956; and Prince Hubertus von Hohenlohe-Langenburg, born 31 May 1959. Is the former sister-in-law of designer Diane von Fürstenberg.
- She is a member by birth of the princely House of Fürstenberg daughter of Prince Tassilo zu Fürstenberg and his first wife, Clara Agnelli.
- One-time public relations manager for the fashion designer Valentino Garavani.
- Her film appearances included the spy spoof Matchless (1968, co-starring Patrick O'Neal), I Killed Rasputin (1967), Dead Run (1967, co-starring Peter Lawford), Negresco (1968), The Vatican Affair (1968), The Battle of El Alamein (1969), Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970), No desearás al vecino del quinto (1970), and The Fifth Cord (1971).
- The elder of her two brothers was Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, a fashion designer.
- Ira von Fürstenberg was a star of European-made genre films between the 1960s and the early 1980s.
- Her son Christoph Victorio Egon Humberto (known as "Kiko") died of massive organ failure a few days after being imprisoned in Klongprem Central Prison in Bangkok on charges of suspicion of illegally altering a visa. His health had been weakened from a weight-loss regime at a Thai wellness center.
- Ira von Fürstenberg started a modeling career at 13, walking down the runway for Emilio Pucci, and later collaborating with Diana Vreeland.
- Her first husband, whom she married in Venice, Italy, founded the Marbella Club, a Spanish resort. They were divorced in 1960, and the marriage was annulled in 1969.
- Ira Von Fürstenberg lived between London, Rome and Madrid where she owned property and organised her last big party, in 2022, at the Palacio de Liria in Madrid, where she gathered some of the best-known faces of high society for her 80th birthday celebration.
- Ira Von Fürstenberg was the first 'it' girl in history, she co-created the Marbella brand and was a member of what she referred to as the 'happy few' rather than 'the jet set'.
- Ira continued throughout the years to be romantically linked in the gossip columns with various beaux, the most famous being Prince Rainier, following Princess Grace's death in 1982.
- She posed for Helmut Newton and Cecil Beaton.
- She spoke several languages, including Italian, French, German, Spanish, and English.
- Her second husband was Francisco "Baby" Pignatari (1916-1977), a Brazilian industrialist. They married in Reno, Nevada, on 12 January 1961, and they divorced in Las Vegas in January 1964.
- Her former sister-in-law is the fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg, and an uncle was Gianni Agnelli, the chairman of FIAT.
- Known professionally as Ira von Fürstenberg, she was an Italian socialite, actress, jewelry designer, and public relations manager for the fashion designer Valentino Garavani.
- Ira von Fürstenberg was the patron of a number of charities, including the Children of Africa Foundation set up by Dominique Ouattara.
- She co-hosted the 20th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival with Nuccio Costa and Enrico Maria Salerno.
- She married the Spanish-German Prince Alfonso de Hohenlohe-Langenburg in Venice and on their travels, the couple came to Marbella where Alfonso fell in love with the fishing village that Marbella was at the time and bought a large finca for 14,000 pesetas (about EUR80 at the time).
- In 1992, she founded a fashion house, the "Ira von Fürstenberg Collection".
- She got a rebellious streak and was a very independent woman at a time where it was still a very masculine world. She took a lot of decisions that were considered brave in those days,.
- Traveling around the world, spending her life between Paris, Biarritz and London, after abandoning acting, she started designing home décor objects, many of them combined with gems and semiprecious stones, calling this line "Objets Uniques." To wit, she made more than 800 one-of-a-kind pieces, each signed and numbered - vases, boxes, Indian jeweled hand mirrors, picture frames, bookends, animal figurines and trays, for example, which made it into the New York's Chinese Porcelain Company and the Thyssen Museum.
- She said she began designing when she couldn't find a gift she liked for her friends Anne and Kirk Douglas, so she decided to make one.
- Over the years, she collected art by Roy Lichtenstein, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Josef Albers and Yves Klein.
- Von Fürstenberg was a couture client, Diana Vreeland's darling, and championed Karl Lagerfeld during the early stages in his career.
- Following her second divorce, Ira worked as an actress, appearing in over twenty films that saw her become one of the leading sex symbols of the 1970s.
- According to British writer Nick Foulkes, Ira von Fürstenberg "was big in her day and her ways, as somebody like the Kardashians are today.".
- Her son, Hubertus Rudolph (known as "Hubi"; born 2 February 1959), a musician and photographer who was on Mexico's Olympic skiing team in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 2010, and 2014.
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