Grace Hightower is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on April 7, 1955 in Mississippi, United States. Socialite and philanthropist whose group, Grace Hightower & Coffees of Rwanda was founded in 2013.
She was engaged to the actor She was married to actor Robert De Niro from 1997 to 2018. from 1997 until 2018.
Hightower is of African-American and Blackfoot descent and was raised in Kilmichael, Mississippi. She grew up in poverty, and worked various odd jobs to help support her family. Hightower became a flight attendant for Trans World Airlines, attracted by the possibility of traveling and expanding her horizons. Settling in Paris and later London, she worked variously as a mutual fund trader and restaurant worker. In 1987, while working at Mr. Chow, an upscale London Chinese restaurant and celebrity hangout, she met and began dating Robert De Niro..
Hightower and De Niro married in 1997. In 1998, at the age of 42, she gave birth to the couple’s first child. De Niro filed for divorce in 1999 and sued Hightower for custody of their son in 2001. However, the two resolved their differences, and by 2004 the divorce was dropped and they renewed their vows. In 2011 the couple had their second child, via surrogate. The couple separated in November 2018.
Elliott, her son Elliott is born on the 28th of October 1998. Her granddaughter, Helen Grace, was born in 2011.