Eva Perón Wiki Biography, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Family

She and Perón were sympathetic to the Nazi cause because Adolf Hitler was opposed to Communism. As many as 9,000 former Nazis and collaborators – including Dinko Sakic, Josef Mengele, and Adolf Eichmann – may have fled to South America, 5,000 of them settling in Argentina. The book “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Latin America” (2011) claims Perón and Eva accepted property looted from Jewish Holocaust victims as payment for granting asylum.

During her acting career she was known as Eva Duarte. In her political career she was known as Eva Perón, or, simply, Evita. She inspired the 1979 Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice Broadway rock opera “Evita”.

Only a few months after “the Renouncement,” Evita underwent a secret radical hysterectomy in an attempt to cure her of her advanced cervical cancer. She was the first person who had a hysterectomy in Argentina (1952).

She founded the Maria Eva Duarte de Peron Foundation in 1948.

Had a fallout with Libertad Lamarque during the making of Circus Cavalcade (1945). After Lamarque was blacklisted by the Perón regime, she went into exile in Mexico.