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Aline Griffith, the Countess of Romanones, in Madrid in the 1960s.
Gianni Ferrari/Cover/Getty Images; thumbnail, Yvonne Hemsey/Getty Images, 1991
Aline Griffith
Died on December 11, 2017 at age 0
Ms. Griffith was a former model from suburban New York City who transformed herself into a dressed-to-kill self-proclaimed spy and Spanish countess.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.