Nickname:	Cap / Cappy
Known for:	The Pink Panther, What's New, Pussycat, Fellini Satyricon
Birth name:	Germaine Lefebvre
Birthday:	6 January 1931, Toulon, France
Height:	5' 7" (1.70 m)

According to rumor, Capucine was remembered in the wills of actors William Holden (to the tune of $50,000) and Peter Sellers, as well as that of Fox kingpin Darryl F. Zanuck. Capucine was a longtime friend of Audrey Hepburn, the two having met while modelling in Paris in the late forties. A manic depressive, Capucine's life had on several occasions been saved by her friend (both women lived at the time in Switzerland) after repeated suicide attempts. When she committed suicide in March 1990 at the age of fifty-nine, her obituary in the New York Times stated that her only known survivors were her three cats. Died in Lausanne, Switzerland after jumping from her eighth-story apartment window. Capucine, her name adopted during her modeling career, is French for the flower nasturtium, and is pronounced Cap-ooh-seen. Nickname to close friends was "Cap". Had a relationship with the actor, William Holden Capucine was a witness to the 1969 wedding of longtime friend Audrey Hepburn to Dr.Andrea Dotti in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she lived for many years until her death. Capucine was considered one of the great beauties of Europe. A former model, Capucine, born in Saumur, France, hails from the same small town on the Loire as one of her famous patrons, Coco Chanel. At 18, Capucine met her spouse on the set of the 1949 film, Rendezvous in July (her first screen appearance), and married him the following year. The marriage lasted six months.

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