Birth Name: Diane Simone Michelle Halfin
Place of Birth: Brussels, Belgium
Date of Birth: December 31, 1946
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*Sephardi Jewish (mother)
Diane von Furstenberg is an American fashion designer.
Her father, Leon (Lipa) Halfin, was a successful businessman born in Romania (currently Chișinău, Moldova). Her mother, Liliane Nahmias, was from Thessaloniki, Greece, and was a Holocaust survivor. Both her parents were Jewish. According to her autobiography, The Woman I Wanted to Be, her mother was from a Shephardi Jewish family and spoke Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish) at home.
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