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Fitted out with freshly painted oar and bright red cushions, a gondola owned by the late Prince Alexis Mdivani was auctioned off in Venice. Price: $80. Purchaser: the Prince's sister, Señora José Maria Sert, who overbid a gondolier who wanted to use it as a taxi. Mdivani's onetime wife, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, was loafing at nearby Lido...
Three years later, Barbara came through. From Bangkok, Siam, where he had chased her, Alexis Mdivani, a polo-playing princeling of the marrying Mdivanis of Georgia, Russia, announced that Barbara had finally consented to marry him. This was real news in anybody's paper. It got better when the prince relinquished any future claim to Barbara's fortune, having first received $1,000,000 from her. Then he married her in Byzantine splendor in Paris' Russian Orthodox Church. Hiring half a deck of an ocean liner, they set off for a round-the-world honeymoon...
Prince David Mdivani, the last of the ''Marrying Mdivanis," landed in Manhattan...
Left. By Alexis Zacharie Mdivani, late Georgian husband of Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow; an estate valued at $2,985,908. In 1934 the Woolworth Countess established two trust funds for him totaling $2,251,189, few months later gave him securities worth $625,193. He was killed in 1935 in a motorcar accident in Spain. Under his will his two sisters and surviving brother (Brother Serge was killed in 1936 playing polo near Palm Beach) receive four-fifths, the Countess one-fifth...
Divorced. Mary McCormic, 38, Chicago Opera star in the heyday of Samuel Insull; from her third husband, Homer V. Johannsen, 36, Chicago attorney; in Chicago. Charge: cruelty. Diva McCormic's second husband was the late Serge Mdivani...