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FIELD Frederic VANDERBILT

Date of birth : April 13, 1905.

Date of death : February 1, 2000, in Minneapolis.

 

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Member of an eminent family from New York City.

With his wife Nieves Orozco, a Mexican (former model and ex- lover of painter Diego Riviera ,), they belonged to the colorful colony of "Zona Rosa" where the left-wing expatriates lived in exile (Dalton Trumbo, Herbert Bibberman, George Pepper, John Howard Lawson, Albert Matz).

Well-known Communist, he had fled the USA to live in peace.

He collected pre-Columbian objects and ran the American Russian Institute.

 
Accompanied with his wife, in 1962, he was Marilyn's guide during her trip in Mexico, to buy some furniture for her new house. They visited Cuernavaca, Toluca, Taxco, Acapulco.

The Fields found Marilyn warm, attractive, brilliant and smart, curious about things, people and ideas, and also incredibly complicated.

The group was followed by the FBI, apparently interested in Marilyn's relationship with the richest Communist of the USA, in deliberate exile in Mexico. The FBI knew at that time that he belonged to the Komintern.

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