Laura, who died of cancer in 2017, was an interior designer and former fashion executive, according to her New York Times obituary. After some time modeling, she went behind the scenes of the fashion world, designing for Bill Blass and Oscar de la Renta. Then she shifted gears and became an interior designer, first working for Dorothy Draper and then launching her own company, LMID.
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In a 2012 interview with New York Social Diary, Laura said that Ricardo was “just dad” and that it was her mother’s half-sister Loretta Young, the Oscar-winning actress of The Farmer’s Daughter, who was “the big star.”
She also said that there were “a lot of cute guys around” because of her father’s showbiz career—and that she had a crush on Marlon Brando! “But Dad steered us away from Hollywood types,” she added.
