Donna Marina Torlonia dei Principi di CivitellaCesi was an ItalianAmerican aristocrat best known as the paternal grandmother of the actress and model Brooke Shields.
Torlonia was born in Rome, at Palazzo NezTorlonia, the youngest daughter of Marino Torlonia, 4th prince of CivitellaCesi and his American wife, Mary Elsie Moore, a daughter of Charles Arthur Moore, a shipping broker and hardware manufacturer from Connecticut. The Torlonia family gained its fortune in the administration of Vatican finances.
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