Maria Kimberly

Maria Kimberly (born July 21, 1944, as Mary Ann Kimmerle,[1] 1943 or 1944) is a former American top model and actress.

Biography

She grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana, and, then, Columbus, Ohio. She was a top model in the late sixties and early seventies. In the seventies, she was the girlfriend for many years of Paris billionaire art gallerist Alec Wildenstein[2] who left her when he met his future wife Jocelyne Périsset. Though they were never married, Alec Wildenstein ended up reaching a financial settlement with Kimberly. In 1982 she married real estate mogul and lawyer Jay Landesman[3] and lived as Mary Ann Kimmerle Landesman in New York City.[4]

In Jacques Tati's penultimate film Trafic, she played Maria, the press attaché of Altra.

References

  1. ^ Maria Kimberly, star of Trafic, Jours de France cover page 18 May 1971
  2. ^ "Car a consolation prize in lust cause" by George Rush and Joanna Molloy with Marcus Baram, New York Daily News, September 18, 1997
  3. ^ Obituary for Jay (Jacob) Landesman, June 2016
  4. ^ Obituary for Madlynne Angelina Kimmerle, her mother, February 2004