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Article: Hayworth daughter takes on Alzheimer's
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 30, 1989
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WASHINGTON Fate has some cruel sorrows in its quiver, and the story
of Rita Hayworth, who slid from sex goddess to Alzheimer's victim
inside of three decades, is one of them.
The way Hollywood and life devoured Marilyn Monroe is a better
known parable, but it can't be any more wounding than this one.
Listen to her daughter talk, a daughter who nursed her mother in her
own Manhattan apartment until she died two years ago. The daughter's
name is Princess Yasmin Aga Khan Jeffries, and she is nearly 40 years
old and remarkably beautiful in several senses of that word.
Rita Hayworth was about 40 years old when she began to go down
in a way that told you there would never be any coming up ...