Arabella Árbenz
Acting
January 15, 1940
Died at age 25
October 5, 1965
Date of Death
San Salvador, El Salvador
2 Credits
Biography
Arabella Árbenz Vilanova was a Guatemalan fashion model and actress, and the daughter of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz. After being sent to Canada to study in a boarding school, she joined her family in exile after her father was ousted from power in June 1954. She suffered along with her family the difficult conditions of their exile, until she decided to remain in Paris to become a fashion model. After an intense love life and drug abuse, she killed herself in front of her last lover, Mexican bullfighter Jaime Bravo, in Colombia.
