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Nina Simone Vidal (born April 20), is an American singer-songwriter and pianist known best by her stage name, Nina Vidal. In 2008, Vidal released her self-titled debut album, which gained her success in Japan.
Nina Gore Auchincloss Straight (formerly Steers, born January 10, 1937) [1] is an American author, journalist, and socialite. [2] She is the mother of writer/director Burr Steers and artist Hugh Auchincloss Steers , half-sister of Gore Vidal , step-sister of First Lady Jacqueline Onassis and socialite Princess Lee Radziwill .
Nina S. Olds (née Gore; July 25, 1903 – April 3, 1978) [1] was an American actress and socialite known for her three marriages, to Eugene Vidal, Hugh D. Auchincloss, and Robert Olds, as well as her children, authors Gore Vidal and Nina Auchincloss.
Vidal's mother, Nina Gore, was a socialite who made her Broadway theater debut as an extra actress in Sign of the Leopard, in 1928. [17] In 1922, Nina married Eugene Luther Vidal Sr. and thirteen years later, in 1935, divorced him. [18] Nina Gore Vidal then was married two more times; to Hugh D. Auchincloss and to Robert Olds.
Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr. (August 15, 1897 – November 20, 1976) was an American stockbroker and lawyer. He became the second husband of Nina S. Gore, mother of Gore Vidal, and also the second husband of Janet Lee Bouvier, the mother of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (wife of President John F. Kennedy) and Caroline Lee Bouvier.
Steers was the grandson of Hugh D. Auchincloss and Nina Gore and the great-grandson of Thomas Gore. His mother was the half-sister of writer Gore Vidal and a stepsister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In 1974, his parents divorced and later that same year, his mother married her second husband, Michael Straight.
Through his mother, Nina Gore Auchincloss (born 1937), [4] he is a grandson of stockbroker and lawyer Hugh D. Auchincloss, [5] a cousin of Louis Auchincloss. Nina is also the stepsister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and younger half-sister of the writer Gore Vidal. [6]
Thomas married Nina Belle Kay (1877–1963), a Texas plantation owner's daughter, on December 27, 1900. She was described as his "constant companion" and as his "eyes." They moved to Lawton, Oklahoma in June 1901. They had two children: Gore's wife and son. Nina S. Gore (1903–1978), who married Eugene Luther Vidal (1895–1969) in