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Born | Ilona Marita Lorenz August 18, 1939 |
Died | 31 August 2019 | (aged 80)
Cause of death | Heart failure |
Ilona Marita Lorenz (18 August 1939 – 31 August 2019) was a German-born American conspiracy theorist. She had an affair with Fidel Castro in 1959 and in January 1960 was involved in an assassination attempt by the CIA on Castro's life.[1]
In the 1970s and 1980s, she testified about the John F. Kennedy assassination saying that she was involved with a group of anti-Cuban militants, including Frank Sturgis, and E. Howard Hunt of CIA and Watergate shortly before the assassination.