# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/polly-lauder-tunney
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:02:48.348Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/polly-lauder-tunney"
name: "Polly Lauder Tunney"
slug: "polly-lauder-tunney"
description: "Polly Lauder Tunney was an American philanthropist and Connecticut socialite. An heiress to the United States Steel fortune through her grandfather George Lauder and her great-uncle Andrew Carnegie, Tunney drew international fame during the 1920s for her secret romance and subsequent marriage to world heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney. She almost died on her honeymoon of an abscessed appendicitis on the Croatian Islands of Brijuni. They had four children, including John V. Tunney (1934-2018), who was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from California from 1965 until 1977."
tagline: "American philanthropist (1907–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josephine_Lauder%2C_fianc%C3%A9e_de_Tunney_-_btv1b53203687h.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1907-04-24"
deathDate: "2008-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.16
  momentum:             4.463414634146342
  historical:           1.554681333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Lauder_Tunney"
    title: "Polly Lauder Tunney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7225807"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations