1. Inga Marie Arvad Petersen was a Danish-American journalist who was a guest of Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Summer Olympics and had a romantic relationship with John F Kennedy in 1941 and 1942.
27 Facts About Inga Arvad
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Inga Arvad was a motion picture writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1945 and a Hollywood gossip columnist, and from the late 1940s until her death, she was the wife of wealthy cowboy actor and military officer Tim McCoy.
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Inga Arvad attended the Columbia School of Journalism in New York and then moved to Washington DC, where she worked as a columnist at the Washington Times-Herald.
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Inga Arvad met John F Kennedy in Washington through his sister Kathleen, who was a reporter at the same newspaper.
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Inga Arvad was said to have a good "intuitive style of writing" by her editor.
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Inga Arvad is thought to be among the few Scandinavians who interviewed Hitler.
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Inga Arvad had scooped her colleagues earlier by reporting that Hermann Goring was to marry German actress Emmy Sonnemann.
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Inga Arvad was invited to the wedding and met important Nazis.
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In November 1941, while John F Kennedy served as an ensign in the US Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence, he and Arvad began a romantic relationship.
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The FBI was already following Inga Arvad because she was a resident alien.
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Kennedy was reassigned to a desk job in South Carolina in January 1942, and the relationship with Inga Arvad ended after a few brief encounters.
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Inga Arvad later reflected on her time with Kennedy as a "passing affair".
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Inga Arvad appeared in two Danish films, Storm Varsel and a Fejos-directed 1934 film Flight from the Millions.
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Inga Arvad was still married to Fejos when she traveled to the United States and during her affair with Kennedy.
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Inga Arvad obtained a divorce from Fejos in June 1942.
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Inga Arvad became a naturalized citizen of the United States on 5 March 1945.
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Inga Arvad became engaged to Robert Boothby, a British member of Parliament, in May 1945.
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Inga Arvad met Arvad in Los Angeles while he was with a British delegation to a conference in San Francisco, California.
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Inga Arvad accepted but then broke off the engagement because of a compliment Hitler once paid her as being "the perfect Nordic beauty" and the effect it might have on Boothby's political career.
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Inga Arvad commented that she despised Hitler's policies and only saw him on the two occasions of her interviews; however, the English press made much of her audience with him and Boothby was to be seeking re-election.
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Inga Arvad was suspected of being the mistress of Axel Wenner-Gren, a Swedish industrialist on the US State Department blocklist.
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Inga Arvad married American actor Tim McCoy on 14 Feb 1947 in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York; yet McCoy claimed they were married earlier.
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McCoy and Inga Arvad resided on a 127-acre estate in Bucks County, Pennsylvania named Dolington Manor, known as the Benjamin Taylor Homestead.
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Inga Arvad had three children from his previous marriage to Agnes Miller, daughter of actress Bijou Heron.
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Inga Arvad was accompanied by Anita Colby, Florence Pritchett, and Laura Wells.
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Inga Arvad died of cancer on a ranch near Nogales, Arizona, in 1973.
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Inga Arvad was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Saginaw, Michigan.