Personal Life
At the University of the Witwatersrand where she was studying the history of art, she met her first husband, the finance magnate and art collector, Gordon Schachat. After two years of marriage the couple divorced in 1984, they remained friends and Schachat supported Allan's testimony in the 1992 libel suit she brought against Channel 4 in London.
Allan became a born-again Christian in 1994. She returned to South Africa two years later to be with her dying mother and later had a relationship with Mario Oriani-Ambrosini, an IFP MP and Italian expatriate. She emigrated to the United States in 2001 and a year later, married Dr Peter Kulish, an American inventor. The couple divorced in 2005.
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