# Oleg Cassini has died

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 18, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oleg-cassini-has-died/348898 "2006-03-18T14:15:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oleg-cassini-has-died/348898/1 "2006-03-18T14:15:38Z")

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[http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/18/cassini.obit.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/18/cassini.obit.ap/index.html)

Best known as Jacqueline Kennedy’s designer of choice, he was also a noted ladies’ man of the 1940s & 1950s. He was married to Gene Tierney, with whom he had two children. A daugter, Daria, was born retarded. As stated on the imDb:

“Her first daughter was born mentally retarded because Gene had contracted measles during a U.S.O. tour. This served as the uncredited inspiration for the plot of the 1980 Agatha Christie movie The Mirror Crack’d (1980).”  
A full life - he was 92.

VCNJ~

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oleg-cassini-has-died/348898/2 "2006-03-18T17:46:48Z")

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I’m wearing my three-stranded pearls in honor of his passing.