Leila Pahlavi was a princess of Iran and the youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Shah and his third wife, Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi.
13 Facts About Leila Pahlavi
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Leila Pahlavi was born on 27 March 1970 in Tehran, Iran.
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Leila Pahlavi was the fourth and youngest child of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the Empress Farah Pahlavi.
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Leila Pahlavi had two elder brothers, an elder sister and an elder half-sister.
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Princess Leila was nine years old when her family was forced into exile as a result of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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Leila Pahlavi attended the United Nations International School in New York City and graduated from Rye Country Day School in 1988.
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Leila Pahlavi spoke Persian, English, and French fluently, as well as some Spanish and Italian.
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Leila Pahlavi spent much of her time commuting between her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Paris, where her mother lived.
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Leila Pahlavi studied literature and philosophy at Brown University and was said to have graduated in 1992.
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On Sunday 10 June 2001, Leila Pahlavi was found dead in her room in Leonard Hotel in London just before 19:30 BST by her doctor.
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Leila Pahlavi was found to have more than five times the lethal dose of Seconal, a barbiturate, which is used to treat insomnia, in her system, along with a nonlethal amount of cocaine.
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Leila Pahlavi was found in bed, her body emaciated by years of anorexia, bulimia, and food intolerances.
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On 4 January 2011, her brother Ali Reza Leila Pahlavi was found dead at his home in Boston, Massachusetts, from an apparent suicide.