What is Marita Lorenz?
{{Infobox person |name = Marita Lorenz |image = Marita Lorenz.jpg |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = Ilona Marita Lorenz |birth_place = [[Bremen (city)|Bremen]], [[Nazi Germany]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1939|08|18}} |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2019|8|31|1939|08|18}} |death_place = {{nowrap|[[Oberhausen]], [[Germany]]}} |death_cause = [[Heart failure]] |occupation = |spouse = |website = |awards = }} '''Ilona Marita Lorenz''' (18 August 1939 – 31 August 2019) was a German-born American conspiracy theorist. She had an affair with [[Fidel Castro]] in 1959 and in January 1960 was involved in an assassination attempt by the [[CIA]] on Castro's life.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bardachreports.com/articles/v_19931100.html|title=Martia biography|access-date=January 20, 2016|website=bardachreports.com|archive-date=January 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112164228/http://bardachreports.com/articles/v_19931100.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the 1970s and 1980s, she testified about the [[John F. Kennedy assassination]] saying that she was involved with a group of anti-Cuban militants, including [[Frank Sturgis]], and [[E. Howard Hunt]] of CIA and [[Watergate]] shortly before the assassination. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IMDb name|0520732}} * [http://www.dear-fidel.com/ Official website for film] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229162617/http://dear-fidel.com/ |date=2018-12-29 }} * [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/world/americas/marita-lopez-dies.html New York Times Obituary] {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorenz, Marita}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Conspiracy theorists]] [[Category:People from Bremen (state)]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] {{US-bio-stub}}