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He was born in New York City , the eldest son of Francis Xavier Shields , a professional American tennis player and of the Italian Princess Donna Marina Torlonia Di Civitella-Cesi ; through his mother he is related to several Italian noble families (most notably Borgia , Medici , D'Este , Di Savoia ); his uncle, for example, was Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince Di Civitella-Cesi , the husband of the Spanish Infanta Beatriz De Borbón y Battenberg , so that he and King Juan Carlos Of Spain share cousins in the Torlonia -de Borbón family. He attended the ) Power Ten New York, an organization dedicated to the sport, in 1980. After starting his career on Wall Street, he moved to Palm Beach, Florida in 1988, forming a real-estate company. An avid hunter and fisherman, the 6-foot-5 inch Shields spent much of his free time at the camp he owned in rural west Florida, Canoe Creek. He married first in 1964 (and later divorced) the California n Maria Theresia Schmon (or Schmonn), who is better known as Brooke Shields' manager, Teri Shields . After their divorce, he married Diana "Didi" Lippert, former wife of Thomas Gore Auchincloss, who is the son of Hugh D. Auchincloss and half-brother of Gore Vidal , in 1970. He had three daughters by his second marriage: Marina, Olimpia, and Christina Shields. He died in Palm Beach, Florida of Prostate Cancer at the age of 61. EXTERNAL LINKS |