Towards the end of her life, she asserted that she was an illegitimate daughter of Albert Einstein and a ballet dancer; however, she had no documentation supporting this claim.
As an 18-year-old college student in 1960, Einstein was the only[4] person with a recognized name among the dozens of people arrested in San Francisco at a peaceful protest against the House Un-American Activities Committee.
[5] From the mid-1990s up to her death in 2011, she lived in her own townhouse in Albany, California[3] with a view of the San Francisco Bay.
[citation needed] Evelyn told CNN she was outraged she had not received a dime out of the millions of dollars earned annually from her grandfather's likeness, with all profits going to Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
"[6] In 1996 she sued the trustee in charge of a collection of correspondence between Albert and Mileva Einstein, a suit that was settled privately.