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Nadya Mateeva Nozharova, also known as Countess Nadya de Navarro Farber was a Bulgarian operetta singer and actress, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and Spanish countess.
Biography
Career
Nadya Nozharova was born in Pleven on 21 November 1916. Her father was a tradesman for electrical materials. She studied at the American girls' school in Lovech, before she came back to Pleven and in 1934 started her career at the operetta theatre "Angel Sladkarov" with which she tours in Bulgaria. After the disassembly of the theatre group, she played in the theatres "Odeon", "Bulgaria", and "Corporate theatre". She moved to Germany, where she studied "Singing". After she came back to Bulgaria she played in the film "Izpitanie" (Trial) in 1942.
She died on 18 April 2014 in Long Island.
Family
After she started playing at the operetta theatre "Angel Sladkarov" in 1936, she married a few days later Angel Sladkarov in the Troyan Monastery. In 1940 they divorced and she married the Spanish count de Navarro, a diplomat in Vatican City, from who she received the title "countess". They lived in Monte Carlo.
After her husband's death in 1949, she moved to the USA and in 1953 she married Sid Farber, who owned a building and real-estate company. The couple built a Moorish-style castle as a holiday home at St Croix in the US Virgin Islands.After his death in 1985 she received a large estate and she married Yuriy Farber.
Charity
In the United States, she supported several organizations for assistance to Jewish and Venezuelan immigrants: the Red Cross in Monaco, the American Hospital in Paris, and the Princess Grace hospital in Monaco.
