-- Natacha's name seems to be of some controversy. Natacha's mother, Winifred Kimball was of the prominent Mormon Kimball family, who gave birth to Natacha out of wedlock and because of this, at least four men later vying for claim of fatherhood. However, soon after her birth, Winifred Sr. did marry Michael Shaughnessy and was said to have adopted little Natacha, so her legal name that she used was either Winifred Kimball or Winifred Kimball-Shaughnessy depending on her whimsy. (It has been reported of late that Shaughnessy was actually her biological father thru her birth certificate, but this does not prove biological birth).

-- Natacha's mother would later marry Richard Hudnut when Natacha was a teenager. Richard did not adopt Natacha legally but endearingly referred to her as his daughter. His will is said to have stated Winifred Jr. as his adopted daughter.

   - Winifred jr. later used the

Stage Name

   - Valentino and Natacha in 1923, went on a dance tour. The tour was to advertise "Mineralava Beauty Clay", which included eighty-eight city beauty contestants. Through Natacha's efforts to shape his publicity, Valentino signed a contract excluding her from work on his pictures, she fled and divorced him. It has also been said in the book "Madame Valentino", that Theodore Kosloff was the first to have seduced her.

    Rambova's mother's sister-in-law was Elsie de Wolfe, the world's first interior decorator, who took on Rambova's mother as her partner. Natacha designed her own ballet costumes, and later became a successful costume designer for Cecil B. De Mille, later designed Rudolph Valentino's image, costumes, and sets, and then became a writer/director.

   - Rambova went on to become a playwright, an actress, and a spiritualist, with her huge labors in Egyptology winning praise. She died at the age of 69, of scleroderma, a disease that dried up her inner organs.