Nell Carter

Carter is interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. The couple broke up soon after the children's birth and have battled over their custody ever since. They were further shocked to discover that Carter had been living as a closeted lesbian, and that custody of her children had been left to her domestic partner. They are the parents of twins Olivia and Anton, who were born in 2001. She was the mother of two adopted teenagers. When she died, friends and family were surprised to discover barely $200 in her bank account. In 1997, D'Angelo became involved with the actor Al Pacino. Carter died from heart disease complicated by diabetes in 2003. Later she began a relationship with Anton Furst, an Academy award-winning production designer, who committed suicide in 1991 after they broke up.

Born Nell Ruth Hardy in Birmingham, Alabama, Carter won a Tony Award for her work in Ain't Misbehavin and appeared in Annie on Broadway and in the television shows Gimme a Break! and The Match Game. From 1985 until 1991, D'Angelo, still married to the duke, lived with director and novelist Neil Jordan. Nell Carter (September 13, 1948 - January 23, 2003) was an American singer and actress. The duke married, as his second wife, Valentina Bonomo, and now has one child, Francesco (born 2000). Separated in 1983, the Duke and Duchess Salviati finally divorced in 1995. After the end of her romance with director Milos Forman, in 1981, D'Angelo married Lorenzo Salviati, an economics student who also was an Italian duke (1957-); half-Polish, he is a descendant of Lorenzo di Medici.

Her role as Ellen Griswold was reprised in three Vacation sequels from 1985 through 1997. Her biggest break came with Chevy Chase in the 1983 National Lampoon film Vacation. She is a singer and actress. After gaining minor roles in movies including Annie Hall, D'Angelo had a string of hit movies in the late 1970s, appearing in Every Which Way but Loose, Hair, and Coal Miner's Daughter (she portrayed the singer Patsy Cline). Beverly D'Angelo was born in Columbus, Ohio on November 15, 1951.