"[3] Wendy's first husband, Al Schroeder, was a West Point graduate she met when he was stationed in Randolph Field in San Antonio, Texas.

[2] During her life as a New York socialite, she was known to have dated Cary Grant, Howard Hughes, and Errol Flynn, and was seen often at the Stork Club and El Morocco.

[5] From 1948, she was the mistress of Emery Reves (né Révész Imre, 1904–1981), a Hungarian-born writer, publisher, financier, art collector, founder of the anti-fascist Cooperation Press Service, and advocate of world federalism.

[4][7] A first cousin of the conductor Sir Georg Solti and a literary agent for and close friend of Winston Churchill, Emery Reves described his wife as "a woman with a brilliant mind and imagination, tempered by much common sense.

Reves shows a deep concern for Wendy's mental health in this letter, referring to her emotional fragility and battle with depression, for which he seemed to hold the Churchills at least partly responsible.

An additional $2 million went to the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, which features an entry arch named for her husband Emery Reves.

[1] Reves died from a respiratory infection on March 13, 2007, aged 90, at a hospital in Menton near her home, Villa La Pausa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France on the Mediterranean.