Helmut Dantine - Personal Life

Personal Life

From 1947 to 1950, he was married to Charlene Stafford Wrightsman (1927–1963), the younger daughter of Charles B. Wrightsman, an oil millionaire whose collection of French furniture and decorative arts fills several galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They had one son, Dana Wrightsman Dantine. In 1952, Charlene Dantine married the American society columnist Igor Cassini. His second marriage was to Nicola Schenck, daughter of Nicholas Schenck, one of the founders of Loews. Nicola subsequently acted as Niki Dantine, and had two children with Dantine. Helmut Dantine died from a heart attack at the age of 64.

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