Yasmin Aga Khan

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Princess Yasmin Aga Khan (b. December 28, 1949 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is an American philanthropist known for raising public awareness in Alzheimer's disease. She is the only child of Rita Hayworth, the American movie actress, and her third husband, Prince Aly Khan, a vice president of the United Nations General Assembly representing Pakistan, for which he served as U.N. ambassador.

Childhood and education

Her early life was spent with her mother and her half sister, Rebecca Welles (daughter of Hayworth's marriage to Orson Welles). Her half-brothers are His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV and Prince Amyn Aga Khan. She attended Buxton School, a small boarding school in Massachusetts. In 1973 she graduated from Bennington College in the United States and was originally interested in operatic singing.

Philanthropic activities

Influenced by her mother's death from Alzheimer's disease, Yasmin Aga Khan serves on the Board of Directors, as Vice Chairman, of the United States Alzheimer's and Related Disorders Association. She is also the president of Alzheimer's Disease International, a National Council Member of the Salk Institute, and a spokesperson for the Boston University School of Medicine, Board of Visitors. She also serves on numerous boards of the Aga Khan Foundation.

Marriages and child

In 1985, she married her first husband, economist and shipping heir Basil Embiricos, by whom she has a son, Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos. They were divorced in 1987. In 1989, she married her second husband, lawyer and real-estate developer Christopher Michael Jeffries. He divorced her in 1993, charging abandonment.^[1]

External links

ADI,Alzheimer's Disease International Interview with Yasmin Aga Khan

References

1. ^ Nadine Brozan, "Chronicle", The New York Times, 11 December 1993.