Leila Pahlavi

Princess Leila of Iran (Leila Pahlavi) (Persian: لیلا پهلوی; ‎ March 27, 1970 – June 10, 2001), born in Tehran, Iran as Princess Leila Pahlavi was the youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and his third wife, Farah Pahlavi.

She was nine years old when her family was forced into exile as a result of the Iranian Revolution.

Following her father's death in Egypt from non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 1980, the family settled in the United States, where she graduated from Rye Country Day School in Rye, New York. She attended a state school in Massachusetts before going to study at Brown University.

Pahlavi never married and spent most of her time commuting between her home in Connecticut and Europe. A onetime model for the designer Valentino, she suffered from anorexia nervosa, chronic low self-esteem, and severe depression^[1] and spent much time being treated in clinics in the United States and Britain. She was found dead in her room in the Leonard Hotel in London, England. According to claims by the coroner's report she was found to have more than five times the lethal dose of quinalbarbitone, a barbiturate, which is used to treat insomnia, in her system, along with a nonlethal amount of cocaine. According to a report about her death, which included information from an autopsy conducted by the Westminster Coroner's Court, she stole the quinalbarbitone from her doctor's desk during an appointment and was addicted to the drug, typically taking 40 pills at once, rather than the prescribed two. Despite this report it is believed that foul play was involved.

She was interred near her maternal grandmother, Farideh Ghotbi Diba, in the Cimetière de Passy, Paris, France.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Iranian.com | Archive Pages

External links

Tribute to Princess Leila on what would have been her 35th birthday on PersianMirror, by Peter Khan Zendran]

[http://www.iranian.com/main/node/22472 Princess Leila; The case for

her murder by Peter Khan Zendran]

[1] Iranian.com | Archive Pages

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