Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich’s abused daughter, whose memoirs revealed a childhood spent as her mother’s “maid” and personal assistant, has died at age 100.
“At three years old I knew definitively that I had no mother; I belonged to a queen,” she wrote in a scathing biography published a year after Dietrich’s death in 1992, which portrayed her mother as “a heartless, manipulative, domineering narcissist who had demanded to be adored by her fans, her many lovers (male and female), and her daughter, but treated them abysmally.” Maria was denied formal education and was not told her true age by a mother determined to look younger than her. As a teenager, Riva was repeatedly raped by her lesbian governess, turned to alcohol, and contemplated suicide before turning her life around and having her own family.
His father, an assistant film director, to whom Dietrich remained legally married, to save appearances, was only an intermittent presence in his life. Dietrich’s lovers came and went: patriarch Joseph Kennedy, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Yul Brynner, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Adlai Stevenson, Edward Murrow, Édith Piaf.
María Riva, born on December 13, 1924 in Berlin, had a partner who supported her during her childhood. Tami Matul, her father’s Russian lover, described in public as Riva’s nanny and routinely abused by both Dietrich and her father. Riva wrote that Matul was forced to undergo 15 abortions “to ensure that no scandal tainted the purity of my mother’s marriage” and ended up in an asylum. “Throughout my youth, Tami was my friend, the person I loved the most,” Riva wrote.
Maria, once settled with her second husband, acted in television shows and commercials during the 1950s and had four children.
He had a Sagittarius Sun conjunct Jupiter, which was probably his saving grace and gave him an innately optimistic outlook despite the horrors of his upbringing. His Sun, Jupiter, was trine a filmic Neptune and square an explosive conjunction of Mars and Uranus in Pisces for a life of constant turbulence and excitement. Her Moon in Cancer probably came close to controlling Pluto due to an intertwined association with her mother that threatened to suffocate her. Her Moon was also probably in a Grand Water Trine to a cold Saturn in Scorpio conjunct Venus trine Uranus, giving her a life that existed in her own bubble of her mother’s demands and possibly also giving Mary a rich inner world of imagination to escape to.
Marlene, born on December 27, 1901 at 9:15 p.m. in Berlin, had a powerful stellium in Capricorn with her Sun conjunct Mercury at the peak of her performance 5th home. And Jupiter Saturn Mars, all conjunct in Capricorn in your attention-seeking 5th.th in different combinations in conjunction with a 10th house Pluto and Neptune in Gemini. Lots of super ambitious, overindulgent Capricorn with a cruel Saturn and Mars streak, tightly controlled from Pluto in the 10th degree.th although he is also capable of casting a dream spell with Neptune. His Moon in Leo on the cusp of his occult 12th The house is not well integrated into her chart, which disconnects her and makes her emotionally unstable.
His North Node in Scorpio hinted that his spiritual journey and life development consisted of giving up everything he had ever coveted. Obviously. “At the end of her life, Dietrich lived alone in a squalid Paris apartment: lonely, bedridden, addicted to various drugs and using kitchen plates as chamber pots.” It is not known if this brought any redeeming ideas.
The picture of relationships between Mary and her mother had a superficially brilliant composition of Jupiter Venus opposite Pluto, although with undertones of a power struggle that only emerged after Marlene’s death and the tell-all biography emerged. In addition to a yod composed of Mars sextile Sun conjunct Neptune that hints at the emotional disorganization of their bond.
