After separating from Hélio in the early 1940s, she married the journalist and businessman Paulo Bittencourt, owner of the newspaper Correio da Manhã.

[1] Together with Raimundo Castro Maia [pt] and Maria Martins, she was one of the people involved in the creation of the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro (MAM), having been part of its board of directors for ten years, and she was mainly responsible for the construction of the building designed by Affonso Eduardo Reidy to house the museum in Aterro do Flamengo.

Despite the initial support given to the overthrow of João Goulart demonstrated in the newspaper's editorials, it soon began to criticize the regime implemented with the military coup of 1964, denouncing cases of torture.

On 7 January 1969, she was arrested along with Osvaldo Peralva [pt] after the seizure of that day's edition of Correio da Manhã.

[4] She died on 31 October 2003 at the Samaritano Hospital, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, due to complications from Alzheimer's disease, which she had suffered for ten years.