Flick is the daughter of Prince George Missikoff of Ossetia and his Italian wife, Valeria.
She is the sister of Prince Oleg Missikoff, a showjumping champion.
[1][2] She married Gert Rudolph Flick, the grandson of the industrialist Friedrich Flick, from whom she separated in a controversial and widely publicized divorce case in 1997.
[3] In 1990, she founded the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition to help young orchestral conductors to establish an international career.
[citation needed] On 2 June 2006, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic,[5] and in 2007 was the recipient of a Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award, given to "outstanding art patrons whose personal commitment and achievements deserve wider recognition.