1. Prince Aly Salomone Khan, known as Aly Khan, was an Ismaili sayyid, socialite and ambassador for Pakistan.
24 Facts About Aly Khan
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Aly Khan was the son of the Aga Khan III, and the father of Aga Khan IV.
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Aly Khan was born in Turin, Italy, the younger son and only surviving child of the Aga Khan III and Cleofe Catterina Teresa "Ginetta" Magliano.
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Aly Khan's father was born in Karachi, British India.
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Aly Khan had two brothers: Mohammed Mahdi Khan, known as "Giuseppe" and, by his father's third marriage, Sadruddin Aga Khan.
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Aly Khan was educated by private tutors in India and France during his childhood.
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Aly Khan was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the United States Bronze Star Medal.
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Prince Aly Khan was installed as the 1st Colonel of the Regiment of the newly raised 4 Cavalry Regiment, Pakistani Army in a military ceremony during 1957 and he retained this honor until his death.
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In November 1957 Aly Khan met President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan and was offered a post as the country's Ambassador to the United Nations.
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Prince Aly Khan was famously a man-about-town in his youth.
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Aly Khan was named co-respondent in the Guinness v Guinness and Khan divorce suit between Joan Barbara Guinness, and Group Captain Thomas Loel Guinness MP, a scion of the Guinness Brewery family.
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The couple had a second son, Prince Amyn Muhammad Aga Aly Khan, who was born premature at seven months the following year.
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Aly Khan married American actress Rita Hayworth within weeks of his divorce.
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On 27 May and 28 May 1949, in Cannes, France, Aly Khan married American film star Rita Hayworth, who left her film career to marry him.
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In 1951, while still married to Hayworth, Aly Khan was spotted dancing with the actress Joan Fontaine in the nightclub where he and his wife had met.
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Aly Khan stayed at Lake Tahoe, Nevada with their daughter, saying there was a threat the child would be kidnapped.
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Aly Khan was persuaded by Prince Aly Khan to retire from modelling and settle down.
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Prince Aly Khan was a famous owner and breeder of racehorses in France, England and Ireland.
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Aga Aly Khan III was a prominent Racehorse owner and breeder.
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On 12 May 1960, a little more than two years after his appointment as Pakistan's Ambassador to the UN, Aly Khan sustained catastrophic head injuries in an automobile accident in Suresnes, France, a suburb of Paris, when the car he was driving collided with another vehicle at the intersection of boulevard Henri Sellier and rue du Mont Valerien, while he and his pregnant fiancee, Bettina, were heading to a party.
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Aly Khan died shortly afterward at Foch Hospital.
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Aly Khan was buried on the grounds of chateau de l'Horizon, his home in the south of France, where it was intended that he would remain until a mausoleum was built for him in Syria.
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Aly Khan's remains were removed to Damascus, Syria, on 11 July 1972, and he was reinterred in Salamiyah, Syria.
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Aly Khan appears in Dominick Dunne's novel The Two Mrs Grenvilles, published in 1985.