She was just the most wonderful mother, she loved working with Fred Astaire — she would talk about working with Fred Astaire … She introduced tennis and golf to me. And she loved her work. I knew she was famous, but she was my mom, a regular mom. … It’s a sad story. It’s a sad disease.

Yasmin Aga Khan

Princess Yasmin Aga Khan (born December 28, 1949) is a Swiss-born American philanthropist known for raising public awareness of Alzheimer's disease. She is the second child of American movie actress and dancer Rita Hayworth, and the third child of Prince Aly Khan, Pakistan's representative to the United Nations from February 1958 until his death in 1960. Her paternal brother is Prince Karim al-Husayni, the fourth and current Aga Khan.

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