Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Annette de la Renta (born December 24, 1939) is an American philanthropist and socialite married to the fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. Born Anne France Mannheimer and nicknamed Annette, she is the only child of German banker Fritz Mannheimer (1890 1939), who died before her birth, and his wife, Marie Annette Reiss (later known as Jane Engelhard, 1917 2004). Her German-born maternal grandfather, Hugo Sjölin Reiss, was the Brazilian consul in Shanghai, China. n 1947, after her mother moved to the United States and remarried, Annette Sjölin Mannheimer was adopted by her stepfather, Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., an industrial magnate, and became Annette Engelhard. She married on 12 March 1960, in Bernardsville, New Jersey, her first husband, private investor Samuel Pryor Reed (-2005). He was a vice president of Engelhard Industries from 1960 until 1976, the minerals conglomerate, and later owned American Heritage magazine.