Nina van Pallandt

Baroness Nina van Pallandt (born July 15 1932) is a Danish singer and actress.

Born Nina Magdelene Møller-Hasselbalch, she married Frederik, Baron van Pallandt in 1960. They formed a singing duo, Nina & Frederik, and achieved worldwide popularity with their calypso-style songs. They had three children:

* Floris Nicolas Ali, Baron van Pallandt (1961-2006), a film writer, director and painter.
* Kirsa Eleonore Clara, Baroness van Pallandt (1963)
* Ana Maria Else, Baroness van Pallandt (1965)

They divorced in 1975. Frederik van Pallandt settled in the Philippines in the 1990s. He joined a major Australian crime syndicate, for which he provided transportation for drug trafficking, and was shot dead with his second wife in 1994. [Sydney Morning Herald, December 16 2006, "Drug tsar uses silence in fight to keep villa"]

In the early 1970s, Nina van Pallandt was romantically linked to fellow Ibiza resident Clifford Irving. In the 2007 film "The Hoax", about Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes, Nina van Pallandt is portrayed by Julie Delpy. The film starred Richard Gere, who appeared with the real van Pallandt in one of his earliest films, "American Gigolo".

She also appeared in several Robert Altman films during the 1970s, including "The Long Goodbye", "A Wedding", and "Quintet".

1969 she contributed the song "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" to the James Bond-movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", starring George Lazenby."Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)" is another 1969 song by Peter Sarstedt. It was a #1 hit in the UK-charts for six weeks in 1969. One theory is that Nina van Pallandt was the mysterious Marie-Claire in the song about a young jet-setter who moved in high circles but was from a lowly origin.

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* [http://www.danskefilm.dk/index2.html Dansk Film Database]