Claire Kelly (March 15, 1934 – July 1, 1998)[1] was an American actress and model.
Born Claire Ann Green, the daughter of a wealthy California rancher, she was trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York.
[1] On November 6, 1954, Kelly's three-year-old son, Nicholas Christopher DeWitt, died after fighting for three days in an iron lung at Variety Children's Hospital in Miami, Florida, the victim of a rare anesthetic hazard, which happened after he was bitten on the lip by Duke, a cocker spaniel owned by former featherweight champion Willie Pep, and his heart stopped beating as doctors repaired the damage with 25 stitches.
[3] After they divorced, she married banking heir Robert Alan Kenaston, son of actress Billie Dove, on October 21, 1961, in Juarez, Mexico.
[5] Kelly has had relationships with Lance Reventlow and Conrad Hilton Jr.. She once dismissed Prince Aly Khan as "gauche" and Elvis Presley as "a mere child".