Shimon Peres branching out into other commodities; his mother was a librarian. Peres had a younger brother, Gershon. He was related the American film star Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske), and they were described as first cousins, but Peres said, "In 1952 or 1953, I came to New York... Lauren Bacall called me, said that she wanted to meet, and we did. We sat and talked about where our families came from, and discovered that we were from the same family... but I'm not exactly sure what our relation is... It was she who later said that she was my cousin;
Betty Mahmoody with Mahmoody's ex-husband to create a documentary, "Without My Daughter", to counter the claims in Betty's book. On August 23, 2009, Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody died in Tehran, Iran, aged 70. The state news agency IRNA quoted his nephew, Majid Ghodsi, as reporting that he died in a hospital from kidney problems and other complications. Betty Mahmoody Betty Mahmoody (born June 9, 1945 in Alma, Michigan) is an American author and public speaker best known for her book, "Not Without My Daughter", which was subsequently made into a film of the same name. She is the President and co-founder of "One