[9][10] In 1945, she married her high school classmate, Claude Walker, who had been enrolled the United States Army during World War II.
In the San Ángel neighborhood of Mexico City, she set up a studio to make papier-mache artworks.
Her work was covered in Verna Cook's book Mexican Interiors, with photographs by Bob Schalkwijk.
Sexton, who had been involved in an earlier abuse case of his friend George Hodel, seized the couple's Mexican estate and left Taccogna in financial trouble.
[16] For the next decade she lived in various places in the United States, including Las Vegas, Long Beach, and Del Mar.
[17] Taccogna moved to a condo in Torrance, California in 1994,[17] and she continued teaching art classes until her death.
[18] Collectors of Taccogna's work included Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Mary Tyler Moore, Burt Lancaster, and Anna Sui.