Verna von

While marriage #2 was being fought out publicly, and in court, Hideki was photographed enjoying Berlin night life with German countess, Verna von Stadt, a well-known avant garde artist in her own right and rumoured niece of a high-ranking Nazi SS officer. Once his marriage to Monica Fields had been dissolved, he immediately married Verna and went to live in her German estate just outside of Braunschweig. This union was a little more successful, lasting three years, and producing a son named Claus (of whom Verna has custody) but, in the end, they amicably parted and went their separate ways, Hideki taking up residence in his Paris loft.