Nina van Pallandt

July 15, 1932

Copenhagen, Denmark

Nina van Pallandt (born Nina Magdelena; 15 July 1932) is a Danish retired actress. She was first a celebrated folk singer in Europe, together with her husband, Baron Frederik van Pallandt. They split up in 1969 and after a brief solo carrier as singer she ended up in Hollywood, appearing in several Robert Altman movies, as well as various TV series. She is also famous as the mistress of hoaxer Clifford Irving, who went to jail when his biography of Howard Hughes proved to be a fake.