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Natacha Rambova, former wife of Silent Film Star Rudolph Valentino died on 5 June 1966 in Pasadena, California. Today, her will went into probate in New York and her estate was valued at $367,000. Miss Rambova lived in New Milford Conneticut in her later years. However, her immediate family moved her out to California due to ill health. She was the adopted daughter of perfume mogul Richard Hudnut to whom her mother was married to. The will lists 25 specific bequests, left a $200 monthly lifetime pension to her half-sister Mrs. Mary Boyd, San Francisco and the balance of the estate went to 11 other relatives. One personal bequest left her entire library and collection of Tibetian and Nepalese Paintings and Bronzes to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.