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Toto Koopman (Catharina Koopman) was born on 28 October, 1908 in Salatiga, Central Java, Dutch East Indies, is a Dutch-Javanese model (1908–1991). Discover Toto Koopman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Catharina Koopman
Occupation Model
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 28 October, 1908
Birthday 28 October
Birthplace Salatiga, Central Java, Dutch East Indies
Date of death 27 August, 1991
Died Place London, England
Nationality Dutch East Indies

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Toto Koopman Net Worth

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1902

Her only sibling, Henry, nicknamed Ody Koopman (1902–1949), became a successful tennis player.

1908

Catharina "Toto" Koopman (28 October 1908 – 27 August 1991) was a Dutch-Javanese model who worked in Paris prior to World War II.

During that war she served as a spy for the Italian Resistance and was captured and held prisoner in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Born in Java in 1908, Koopman was the daughter of the Dutch cavalry officer Jan George Koopman and Catharina Johanna Westrik, of Dutch and Javanese descent.

She was named Catharina, but came to prefer Toto, her childhood nickname after her father's favourite horse.

1920

Koopman left Java in 1920 to attend a boarding school in the Netherlands where she developed a talent for languages and became fluent in English, French, German and Italian.

After a year at an English finishing school, she moved to Paris to work as a model.

In Paris, Koopman worked as a house model for Coco Chanel but quit after only six months.

She worked for the designers Rochas, Mainbocher and Madeleine Vionnet, appeared regularly in Vogue Paris and was photographed by Edward Steichen and George Hoyningen-Huene.

Koopman had a small part in the film The Private Life of Don Juan and although this was cut from the final production she still attended the film's premiere with Tallulah Bankhead, who introduced her to Lord Beaverbrook.

1930

He was happy to pay for her travels throughout Europe in the 1930s and she often attended opera performances in Germany and Italy.

When Beaverbrook discovered that Koopman was also in a relationship with his son, Max Aitken, he ran a series of stories in the newspapers he owned, including the Daily Express and the London Evening Standard, that made Koopman an outcast in London high-society.

Koopman and the younger Aitken lived together for four years but he ended the relationship when she refused to marry him.

In fact Koopman had signed an agreement with Beaverbrook which granted her a pension for life from him provided she did not marry his son.

1934

Although Beaverbrook was thirty years her senior, he and Koopman began, in 1934, an affair that lasted some years.

1939

Koopman left London in 1939 to live in Italy.

There she began a relationship with a leader of the anti-Mussolini resistance.

When World War II broke out, she agreed to use her contacts and language skills to spy for the Italian Resistance.

She infiltrated meetings of the Black Shirts but was captured.

After spells in prisons in Milan and Lazio she was sent to the Massa Martina detention camp but escaped and hid in the mountains around Perugia, where she worked with a local resistance group.

She was recaptured, promptly escaped again, and made her way to Venice.

1944

There, in October 1944, Koopman was caught spying on high-ranking German officers in the Danieli Hotel and quickly deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

1945

Very shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945, the Nazi authorities released several hundred prisoners, including Koopman, to the care of the Red Cross in Sweden.

A former boyfriend, Randolph Churchill went to Gothenburg and helped the emaciated Koopman obtain new clothes, a new passport and a wig for her shaved head.

While recuperating in Ascona in 1945, Koopman met the art dealer Erica Brausen.

The two became lovers and would remain together for the rest of their lives.

Brausen was about to open her own commercial gallery in London, and the two women worked to get the Hanover Gallery established.

In due course the Hanover became one of the most influential galleries in Europe, most notably by nurturing the early career of Francis Bacon.

1950

She later helped establish the Hanover Gallery as one of the most influential art galleries in Europe in the 1950s.

During the 1950s Koopman studied at the University of London and took part in several archaeological excavations.

She made a donation of books to the Institute of Archaeology in London.

1959

In 1959 Koopman and Brausen bought a property on the island of Panarea where they built six villas amongst extensive gardens and entertained very lavishly.

1991

They continued to live together until Koopman's death in August 1991, eighteen months before Brausen's death.