Profile
Francis Alexander Shields
Businessman + Actress + Elder
Male
Born
May 16, 1941
Hometown
New York City
Died
Apr 27, 2003
Death Place
Palm Beach, Florida
Francis Xavier Alexander Shields was an American businessman and an executive at Revlon in New York, but is perhaps best known as the father of the actress Brooke Shields. He was born in New York City, the eldest son of Francis Xavier Shields Senior,… Read More
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Paid Notice: Deaths Shields, James FrancisNYTimes - Jun 02, 2000
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1941
Birth
Born on May 16, 1941.
TWENTIES
1962
21 Years Old
He attended the Buckley School in Manhattan and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, where he captained the crew that rowed in the Henley Royal Regatta in 1962 and was a member of St. Anthony Hall.
1964
23 Years Old
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In 1964, he married Maria Theresia Schmon (or Schmonn), better known as Brooke Shields' mother/manager, Teri Shields.
1970
29 Years Old
After their divorce, when Brooke was only five months old, he married, in 1970, Diana "Didi" Lippert, former wife of Thomas Gore Auchincloss, who is the son of Hugh D. Auchincloss and half-brother of Gore Vidal and a stepbrother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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THIRTIES
1980
39 Years Old
An avid sportsman, Shields never lost his love of rowing and founded the Power Ten New York, an organization dedicated to the sport, in 1980.
FORTIES
1988
47 Years Old
After starting his career on Wall Street, he moved to Palm Beach, Florida, in 1988, forming a real-estate company.
LATE ADULTHOOD
2003
62 Years Old
Died on April 27, 2003.
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