Head-turning New York City icon Marisa Berenson was a top model in the 1960s.

The doe-eyed wonder had an incredible figure with toned legs and a slim waistline which made bathing suits and little black dresses look their best.

She landed on the cover of Vogue many times. 

Then the curly haired looker went into acting and hit a high note in the 1970s. She starred in Barry Lyndon with Ryan O’Neal, in SOB with Julie Andrews and William Holden, and in Cabaret with Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey.

Marisa made a rare appearance at the Giorgio Armani show in Paris on Tuesday alongside Demi Moore and Jessica Biel.

And the pH๏τogenic star still looks incredible today at the age of 77. 

Head-turning Marisa Berenson was a top model in the 1960s and was out in Paris on Tuesday

The doe-eyed wonder had an incredible figure with toned legs and a slim waistline which made bathing suits and little black dresses look their best. Then the curly haired looker went into acting

The New York native was born Vittoria Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson in 1947.

She was on the covers of Vogue and Time.

Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat and her mother was Maria-Luisa Yvonne ‘Gogo’ Radha de Wendt Schiaparelli, a socialite.

Berenson’s maternal grandmother was the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli.  

Her younger sister, Berinthia, became a model, actress, and pH๏τographer, and was known as Berry Berenson. She was married to actor Anthony Perkins. Berry Berenson died on September 11, 2001 in New York City.

Marisa was discovered by Vogue editor Diana Vreeland in the 1960s. 

She appeared on the cover of the July 1970 issue of Vogue as well as the cover of Time on in 1975. 

She was known as ‘The Queen of the Scene’ for her frequent appearances at nightclubs and other social venues in her youth.

French designer Yves Saint Laurent called her ‘the girl of the Seventies.’

Then she went into acting. 

Marisa, center, with Liza Minnelli, left, and Joel Grey, right, in the 1970s

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She appeared in the 1971 film Death in Venice and the Jewish department store heiress Natalia Landauer in the 1972 film Cabaret. 

Next she was Lady Lyndon in the Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon in 1975.

Berenson’s other performances included Casanova & Co. (1977), Killer Fish (1979), the Blake Edwards comedy S.O.B. (1981), The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984), and Clint Eastwood’s White Hunter Black Heart (1990).

Then there were made-for-TV movies like the Holocaust-themed drama Playing for Time (1980). 

She guest-starred in an episode of The Muppet Show during its third season in 1978.

On September 11, 2001, her younger sister and sole sibling, Berry Perkins, widow of actor Anthony Perkins, was killed in the first flight to hit the World Trade Center. 

Berenson attends the Giorgio Armani Prive Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 28 in Paris

The icon wore all black with bright blue accents as she headed to the show

The star at the Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 27

Marisa was also in an airplane during the terrorist attacks, flying from Paris to New York. 

She is a big fan of  Transcendental Meditation.

‘India changed my life, because I was searching for my spiritual path, and I ended up in an ashram in Rishikesh with Maharishi and the Beatles. We’d sit on the floor at night, and George and Ringo would play the guitar, and we’d meditate all day, and have meals together, and become vegetarians, and live in huts. But it was just normal. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, here are the Beatles.’ The most important thing was my transcendental meditation.’

Berenson lives in a villa on the outskirts of Marrakesh.

Berenson’s first husband was James Randall, from 1976 to 1978. 

They have one daughter.

Her second husband was Aaron Richard Golub from 1982 to 1987.