Trivia

Marisa's sister, actress/photographer Berry Berenson (ticketed as Berinthia Perkins, Berinthia being her given first name, and Perkins being her married last name, as the widow of actor Anthony Perkins), was one of 87 victims (including 11 crew members, but not including 5 hijackers) on American Airlines flight 11 (daily scheduled transcontinental morning service from Boston Logan International Airport [BOS] to Los Angeles International Airport [LAX]), the terrorist-hijacked plane that crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Best friend of Cabaret (1972) co-star Liza Minnelli.

Before entering films, she was one of the top fashion models of the 1960s, a favorite at "Vogue".

Her father was Robert L. Berenson, a U.S. diplomat of Lithuanian Jewish descent (his family's original surname was Valvrojenski). He was related to legendary art critic Bernard Berenson, an expert in Italian Renaissance, and the basis of the "Aaron Jastrow" character, portrayed first by John Houseman in The Winds of War (1983), and second by John Gielgud in War and Remembrance (1988), both written by Herman Wouk. Her mother was Countess Maria Luisa (Marisa) Yvonne Radha (aka "Gogo") de Wendt de Kerlor. Gogo was the daughter of Swiss-French Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor and famed Paris fashion designer and later film costume designer Elsa Schiaparelli. Born in Rome, Schiaparelli was the daughter of Celestino Schiaparelli (1841-1919), of Italian stock, and his wife, of Egyptian stock (Her great-uncle was Giovanni Schiaparelli, an astronomer who discovered the canals of Mars). When Schiaparelli married Count Wilhelm, they relocated to Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA; where Gogo was born. He soon fled, and Elsa's career in fashion designing began. She was hugely successful in Paris, second only to Coco Chanel and she even collaborated with Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau. (Marisa herself maintained the fashion tradition, becoming a top model in the 1960s, both in Europe and in New York City, New York, USA).

She was known as "The Queen of the Scene" for her frequent appearances at nightclubs and other social venues in her youth; Yves Saint-Laurent dubbed her "the girl of the Seventies".

Marisa and Jim Randall lived in a million-dollar mansion in Beverly Hills he bought from Debbie Reynolds. The house had a private movie theater with 35mm projectors fitted with Cinemascope lenses. It also included his and hers bathrooms, the floors and walls of which were marble and granite. It had three swimming pools with waterfalls one into the other on the side of a hill. It had a private barbershop with regulation barber chair, sauna and gym. The house was fitted with state-of-the-art security devices which included TV camera, motion detectors and wireless "panic buttons" which they carried with them in the house, and which were wired directly into the Beverly Hills Police Dept. A security guard lived on the premises and manned a control room in the basement where he monitored the TV cameras, etc. The wedding of Randall and Berenson was held in this house, and George Hamilton was Randall's best man. The reception turned into a brawl when some of the guests got into a fight.

Her father was of Lithuanian Jewish descent. Her mother had Italian, Egyptian, Swiss, and French ancestry.

Her daughter, Starlite Melody Randall, appears on the reality show Gastineau Girls (2005) on E!.

She and ex husband Jim Randall have a daughter Starlite Melody Randall born in 1977.

Former sister-in-law of actor Anthony Perkins.

Her first husband Jim Randall, was a Texas millionaire but the marriage only lasted a month as they were totally incompatible but resulted in a daughter, Starlight, born in 1978.

Berenson is chairman of the board of Culture Project, an organization that sponsors the theater.

In the late 1970s, it was announced she would star as Vivien Leigh in a biographical film. Unfortunately, the plans eventually fell through.

In the early 1970s, Berenson was the companion of the French banking heir Baron David René de Rothschild, the younger son of Baron Guy de Rothschild.

Her second marriage was to Aaron Richard Gould who was a 42 year old New York Lawyer.

President of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 7th 'Festival International du Cinéma au Féminin de Bordeaux' in 2005.