Alexandra Isles ( Alexandra Cornelia von Moltke; born February 11, 1945)
Career
In 1985, Isles began work at the Museum of Television & Radio where she became a curator specializing in arts, drama and children's programming. She left Dark Shadows in 1968 due to pregnancy. In 1969, she gave birth to a son.
Isles was the mistress of Claus von Bülow and testified at his 1982 and 1985 trials for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny. She was portrayed by Julie Hagerty in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune that dramatized these events.
In 1985, Isles began work at the Museum of Television & Radio (now the Paley Center for Media), and became an Assistant Curator, working on exhibitions and screening series on the arts and children's programming. In 1991, with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she produced and directed Scandalize My Name, Stories from the Blacklist, introduced by Morgan Freeman and featuring Harry Belafonte and Ossie Davis. That same year, she married a physician, Dr. Alfred Jaretzki III.
Isles' subsequent documentary films were The Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and Rescue of the Jews; Porraimos: Europe's Gypsies in the Holocaust; The Healing Gardens of New York; Hidden Treasures: Stories from a Great Museum; and Harry's Gift: A New York Story.