Personal Life
Before moving from Italy to the United States Cassini was engaged with debutante Donnina Toepitz, later Donnina Cicogna.
On 2 September 1938, in Elkton, Maryland, Cassini became the husband of Mary “Merry” Fahrney. The couple divorced in 1940.
Cassini married actress Gene Tierney, on 2 June 1941. Antoinette Daria was born October 15, 1943, mentally retarded, due to her mother's bout during pregnancy with German measles. The couple separated on 20 October 1946, and entered into a property settlement agreement on 10 November 1946. Tierney won an uncontested divorce in California on 13 March 1947, and finalized the divorce one year later: 13 March 1948. It was reported by the Los Angeles Times that the couple reconciled on 19 April 1948, but did not remarry. Christina "Tina" was born on 19 November 1948. Another divorce action was filed in Los Angeles, California, on 28 February 1952, and the final decree was granted on 8 April 1953.
After his divorce from Tierney, Cassini dated and was engaged to Grace Kelly. He and Tierney remained friends until her death, when she bequeathed one dollar to her daughter Daria and the residue to Christina. Cassini was quoted as saying, “Gene is the luckiest, unlucky girl in the world, all of her dreams came true, at a cost.”
Cassini died from complications of an aneurysm in Manhasset, New York, in 2006. He is buried in the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury, New York.
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