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GlobalInsight Journal

Nora Picciotto’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Author

Emma Terry

Published Feb 27, 2026

Intro Baroness
Is Noble
From Egypt
Type Royals
Gender female
Birth

9 September 1942, Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Age 78 years
Family
Spouse: Adam Karol Czartoryski
Children: Tamara Czartoryska

Nora Picciotto, formerly Baroness Nora Bentinck and Nora Czartoryski (born Eleonora Picciotto on 9 September 1942, Cairo) is the first wife of Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski, mother of Princess Tamara Czartoryska.

Nora Picciotto was born on 9 September 1942 in Cairo, Egypt, daughter of Ferdinand Picciotto, and Edith Rothenberg, both of Jewish origin, born in Cairo, Egypt. She worked in the film industry as a public relations specialist and also a model. She first married Iranian Manoucher Khanlari and had two children Yasmine Khanlari born 29 April 1962 and Fabrizio David Ali Khanlari born 3 of December 1965. On 25 January 1977 she married her second husband Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski and gave birth to their daughter Princess Tamara on 23 April 1978. The marriage with Prince Adam Karol ended in divorce on 28 April 1986. Her third marriage was to Baron Steven Charles John Bentinck born 1957 (otherwise known as Carel Johannes Baron Bentinck), grandson of the industrialist and art collector Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon), nephew of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921–2002). They had no children, and their marriage ended in divorce in 1996.