Iconic Actress Marisa Berenson Finds Solace in Marrakech Retirement, Reflects on 9/11 Loss

The cinema star, who has appeared in Bob Fosse’s "Cabaret", Luchino Visconti’s "Death in Venice", and Stanley Kubrick’s memorable "Barry Lindon", now lives in her residence in Marrakech, far from the world of cinema and fashion. But she still suffers from the absence of her sister Berry, 53, wife of actor Anthony Perkins, who died in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 in New York. A hard blow for Marisa, the hardest of her life, reports Libertad Digital.

Born in New York seventy-five years ago, Marisa Berenson wanted to become a nun, but her beginnings as a model in the 1960s made her change her mind. At the time, she was already posing very often for Vogue magazine where her sister Berry worked as a photographer. She had also been on the cover of Time in 1975 and was distinguished by her extreme elegance, her dream body and her angelic beauty.

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Marisa became an orphan of her father at the age of sixteen. The latter was the director of a shipping company, and then a diplomat. The actress therefore lived in luxury. In the early 1970s, she married billionaire David de Rothschild. In 1976, she married industrialist James Randall, from whom she divorced in 1977 after having a daughter. Then, she remarried in 1982 to lawyer Aaron Richard Golub, a union that ended in failure five years later.

Marisa remembers that she had visited Marrakech for the first time in the 1960s and had stayed at the luxurious La Mamounia hotel. That’s where she decided to buy a house that she rebuilt to her liking, and where she currently resides. She grows vegetables there, takes care of her poultry and lives peacefully in retirement. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she accepted a publisher’s offer to write a book on the peculiarities of Marrakech.