- Lived with Franco Indovina in Rome after they met on the set of The Three Faces (1965); their relationship ended with his death.
- Allegedly, the contract with producer Dino De Laurentiis forbade her to smile because the tale of the "sad empress" created by newspapers was thought to be useful for advertising the movie The Three Faces (1965).
- As the second wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Persia, she was only Queen consort, while his third wife Empress Farah Diba became Shahbanu (Empress) as the Shah declared himself the Emperor of Iran and Iran an Empire during his third and final marriage.
- Firstborn child of Khalil Esfandiary, a notable Iranian ambassador in West Germany in the 1950s, and his German wife Eva Klein.
- Is buried in the Westfriedhof, a cemetery in Munich, Germany.
- Is portrayed by Anna Valle in Soraya (2003).
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