Dina Merrill, Heiress Turned Actress Who Grew Up in Trump’s Future Mar-a-Lago Estate, Dies at 93

Dina Merrill, an heiress turned actress who starred in classic movies such as 1960’s “BUtterfield 8” and 1963’s “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” died Monday in East Hampton, New York, the New York Times reported.

According to the Times, she spent up to half of each year as a child on the family’s giant yacht, the Sea Cloud, and the other half on a 115-room estate in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, that was renovated into a private club after its purchase by future U.S. President Donald Trump in 1985.

[...] she was 34 by the time she got her first movie role — in the 1957 Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy comedy “The Desk Set” — because she took time out to raise three children with her first husband, the Colgate-Palmolive heir Stanley M. Rumbough Jr.

Merrill was a moderate Republican who served as vice chair for the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition and vice president of the New York Mission Society, the Times wrote.