Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. What else did I do then?
Mr. JENNER. When you reached Palm Beach you met the lady who became
your first wife, Dorothy Pierson?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Tell me who was Dorothy Pierson?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Dorothy Pierson was an attractive girl, the
daughter of a local real estate man whose mother was married to an
Italian, Cantagalli, Lorenzo Cantagalli, from Florence. And the mother
and daughter came back to the United States during the war. She was
the daughter of Countess Cantagalli by the first husband, who was an
American. That is why her name was Pierson. And, anyway, Dorothy and I
fell in love with each other and got married.
Mr. JENNER. She was quite young, was she not?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Very young.
Mr. JENNER. About 17 or 18?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And you subsequently married where?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In New York.
Mr. JENNER. In New York City?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. New York City.
Mr. JENNER. And that marriage subsequently ended in divorce, did it?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. When?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. About a year later.
Mr. JENNER. You were married just a short time?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Just a short time. A child was born.
Mr. JENNER. There was a child born of that marriage?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And that child's name was Alexandra?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. Is she still alive?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. I will deal with her subsequently, if I might. The divorce
took place--well, we might as well close up with Lilia. You never
married her?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No.