- Leila Pahlavi
Princess Leila of Iran ("Leila Pahlavi") (Persian: لیلا پهلوی;
March 27 ,1970 –June 10 ,2001 )Born in
Tehran ,Iran as "Princess Leila Pahlavi", she was the youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,Shah of Iran , and his third wife,Farah Pahlavi . The family's titles and styles were declared to be abolished by decree of the Iranian government after the overthrow of the Shah. However, the monarchy ended as an autocratic one and were not enacted by decree but by their birth right, Leila Pahlavi carried the rank of Her Imperial Highness and title of Princess of Iran.She was nine years old when her family was forced into exile as a result of the
Iranian Revolution led by theAyatollah Khomeini .Following her father's death in
Egypt fromnon-Hodgkins lymphoma in 1980, the family settled in theUnited States , where she graduated fromRye Country Day School in Rye, New York. She attended a state school inMassachusetts before going on to study atBrown University , graduating in 1992.Pahlavi never married and spent most of her time commuting between her home in
Connecticut and Europe. A onetime model for the designer Valentino, she suffered fromanorexia nervosa , chronic low self-esteem, and severe depression [ [http://www.iranian.com/SetarehSabety/2001/June/Leila/ Iranian.com | Archive Pages ] ] and spent much time being treated in clinics in the United States and Britain. She was found dead in her room in the Leonard Hotel inLondon ,England , and was found to have more than five times the lethal dose ofquinalbarbitone , abarbiturate , which is used to treatinsomnia , in her system, along with a nonlethal amount ofcocaine . According to a report about her death, which included information from an autopsy conducted by theWestminster Coroner's Court , she stole the quinalbarbitone from her doctor's desk during an appointment and was addicted to the drug, typically taking 40 pills at once, rather than the prescribed two. [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/07/26/nleil26.xml Shah's daughter stole to fuel her drug habit - Telegraph ] ]She was interred near her maternal grandmother, Farideh Ghotbi Diba, in the
Cimetière de Passy ,Paris ,France .Fact|date=October 2007References
External links
* [http://www.farahpahlavi.org/leila-passing.html Leila's Memorial site by her mother]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1384283.stm Report on the Princess's death]
* [http://www.iranian.com/SetarehSabety/2001/June/Leila/ Iranian.com editorial about Pahlavi's death]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/07/26/nleil26.xml Telegraph article about results of Pahlavi death inquest]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,527381,00.html Guardian article about results of Pahlavi death inquest]
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