She consistently challenged widely accepted accounts of her father's internment and death at a Nazi prison camp.
After meeting Yulia at a reception, Yakov fought with her second husband, an NKVD officer called Nikolai Bessarab,[1] and arranged her divorce.
She was a member of the Russian Writers Union, and worked all her life as a translator of French, mainly for the Gorky Institute of World Literature.
She was married to Husein ben Saad, an Algerian mathematician living in exile in Moscow and employed by the United Nations, but kept her maiden name.
Dzhugashvili died from cancer at the Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital in Moscow, aged 69.