Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameTeresa (Aristide) Damalas, 5C2R
Birth1889
Death1967, Edirne, Turkey
MemoFormerly Adrianopole.
Note 1When Damala's mistress (who injected him with heroin between acts of plays he was appearing in) had an illegitimate daughter by him in 1889, she left the baby in a basket (with a note) on Sarah Bernhardt's doorstep...
Note 2... The baby (who was baptised Teresa) was given into the care of Zaharoff, who found a family to raise her in eastern Thrace (in Adrianopole)...
Note 3... In 1920 she posed for Picasso, and she had affairs with the American novelist Ernest Hemingway and Gabriel D'Annunzio (an early Italian Fascist). The story of her life is told in the historical novel Teresa by Fredy Germanos (1997).
Note 4Her guardian as a child (and later?) was Basil Zaharoff Zaharoff who was a friend of both the actress Sarah Bernhardt and her Greek husband Jacques Damala (who was once described as the handsomest man in Europe).
FlagsAvierino, Calvocoressi, Coressi, Damalas, Franghiadi, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Negroponte, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Scaramanga, Schilizzi, Sevastopoulos
FatherAristide Jacques (Ambrouzis) Damalas (1855-1889)
Mother---- [Damalas] (?-?)
Unmarried