Overview
- Her death on October 29, 2025, was confirmed by her son Peter Riva, who said she died of natural causes at her home in Gila, New Mexico.
- The family shared a statement via The Wrap mourning her loss and saying they take comfort that she is reunited with her husband William, her son Michael, and her parents Marlene and Rudi.
- Born in Berlin in 1924, she moved to Los Angeles at age five and made a child-actor debut alongside her mother in Josef von Sternberg’s film about Catherine the Great.
- She became a mainstay of early live television with more than 500 CBS programs and earned Emmy nominations in 1952 and 1953.
- After Marlene Dietrich’s death in 1992, she published a substantial biography and had long served as her mother’s representative.