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Grace Hightower

グレイス・ハイタワー / ぐれいす・はいたわー

American socialite

April 7, 1955 (age 71) ・ Kilmichael, Mississippi, United States

  • Mississippi
  • socialite
  • flight attendant
  • film actor

My Take

What draws me to Grace Hightower is the arc, not the headlines. A woman from rural Kilmichael, Mississippi, who worked as a flight attendant before landing at the center of American celebrity through her long marriage to Robert De Niro, then built genuine standing as a philanthropist. It would be easy to flatten her into a footnote in someone else's biography, but that misses the quieter discipline of forging your own identity beside an enormous one. I respect people who stay grounded under that kind of glare, and her steady, unflashy presence reads to me as the real thing rather than borrowed light.

Overview

Grace Hightower is an American socialite, philanthropist, and actress. She married Robert De Niro in 1997, and separated from him in 2018.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English)
Grace Hightower
Name (Japanese)
グレイス・ハイタワー
Reading
ぐれいす・はいたわー
Born
April 7, 1955 (age 71)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
Aries / Goat
Origin
Kilmichael, Mississippi, United States
Blood type
Private
Height
Private
Agency
Private
Occupation
socialite / flight attendant / film actor

2. Background

Elementary school
Private
Junior high
Private
High school
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University
Private

3. Relationships

Spouse
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Children
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Parents
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Siblings
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4. Personality

Motto

Private

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7. About this entry

Tags

  • Mississippi
  • socialite
  • flight attendant
  • film actor
Last updated
2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.