Inga Arvad | |
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Born | Inga Marie Arvad Petersen 6 October 1913[1] |
Died | 12 December 1973 Nogales, Arizona, U.S. | (aged 60)
Spouses | |
Children | 2 |
Inga Marie Arvad Petersen (6 October 1913 – 12 December 1973) was a Danish-American journalist who was a guest of Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Summer Olympics and also had a romantic relationship with John F. Kennedy in 1941 and 1942. The juxtaposition of these facts led to suspicions during World War II that she was a Nazi spy. Secret U.S. investigations uncovered no such evidence, and her past did not harm her professional life or social standing in the United States. She was a motion picture writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1945[2] and a Hollywood gossip columnist,[3] and from the late 1940s until her death, she was the wife of wealthy cowboy actor and military officer Tim McCoy.