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- ↑ Maria Kimberly, star of Trafic, Jours de France cover page 18 May 1971
- ↑ "Car a consolation prize in lust cause" by George Rush and Joanna Molloy with Marcus Baram, New York Daily News , September 18, 1997
- ↑ Obituary for Jay (Jacob) Landesman, June 2016
- ↑ Obituary for Madlynne Angelina Kimmerle, her mother, February 2004
