Maria Kimberly (born July 21, 1944, as Mary Ann Kimmerle, 1943 or 1944) is a former American top model and actress.

Biography

She grew up in

Terre Haute, Indiana Terre Haute ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about 5 miles east of the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,785 and its metropolitan area had a ...

, and, then,

Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and t ...

. She was a top model in the late sixties and early seventies. In the seventies, she was the girlfriend for many years of Paris billionaire art gallerist

Alec Wildenstein Alec Nathan Wildenstein (August 5, 1940 – February 18, 2008) was a French-born American billionaire businessman, art dealer, racehorse owner, and breeder. Biography Born in Marseille, Wildenstein was raised in New York City where his family own ...

who left her when he met his future wife Jocelyne Périsset. Though they were never married, Alec Wildenstein ended up reaching a financial settlement with Kimberly. In 1982 she married real estate mogul and lawyer Jay Landesman and lived as Mary Ann Kimmerle Landesman in New York City.Obituary
for Madlynne Angelina Kimmerle, her mother, February 2004 Her involvement in the French artistic milieu allowed her to get the lead female role of

Jacques Tati Jacques Tati (; born Jacques Tatischeff, ; 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982) was a French mime, film-maker, actor and screenwriter. In an ''Entertainment Weekly'' poll of the Greatest Movie Directors, he was voted the 46th greatest of all time ...

's penultimate film ''

Trafic ''Trafic'' (''Traffic'') is a 1971 Italian-French comedy film directed by Jacques Tati. ''Trafic'' was the last film to feature Tati's famous character of Monsieur Hulot, and followed the vein of earlier Tati films that lampooned modern society ...

'', where she played Maria, the press attaché of Altra. Tati having been ruined by the failure of '' Playtime'', the film was made possible by financial support of Alec Wildenstein, who, in return, had Kimberley cast in the lead female role, his companion at the time.

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