The 27 films she made and her charity work for UNICEF (via Encyclopedia of World Biography) filled Audrey Hepburn’s life, but her family made it complete. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other,” she said (per Good Reads) and it was an adage she lived. She married two times and had two sons: Sean Ferrer (with actor Mel Ferrer) and Luca Dotti (with Count Andrea Dotti), according to Baby Gaga. Her son, Sean, wrote a book about his mother’s life, “Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit.” “We’re fortunate to have this extraordinary foundation of … growing up in this farmhouse in Switzerland,” he said to “The Early Show.” “She wanted a normal life for herself and for us. And it’s a valuable and beautiful memory that she left us.”
Both Ferrer and Dotti worked in the film industry, according to Distractify: Ferrer in development, production, and marketing and Dotti appeared in “C à vous.” Together, they created the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund, which organized Hepburn memorabilia exhibits to raise money for humanitarian causes. Dotti filed a lawsuit over intellectual property rights regarding Hepburn’s name and image, a case that was resolved in Ferrer’s favor in 2019. “Hopefully, I can now get back to what counts: continuing our mother’s legacy of grace and humanity,” said Ferrer, quoted by PR Newswire.
Hepburn never knew her grandchildren: Ferrer has three children; Dotti, two, reported Distractify. She died on January 20, 1993, at the age of 63.
