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==Death== Dior died of a sudden heart attack while on vacation in Montecatini, Italy, on 24 October 1957 in the late afternoon while playing a game of cards.<ref name="time">{{Cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867898-1,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012203435/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867898-1,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 October 2007 |title=Died. Christian Dior, 52 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=7 March 2008 |date=4 November 1957}}</ref> He was survived by Jacques Benita, a North African singer three decades his junior, the last of a number of discreet male lovers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hautecouturenews.com/2015/story/christian-dior/|first=Lucy|last=Zotoff|title=Revolutions in fashion: Christian Dior|publisher=Haute Couture News|date=25 December 2015|access-date=14 October 2022|archive-date=14 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014192144/http://www.hautecouturenews.com/2015/story/christian-dior/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="NYT 2002">{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/magazine/the-last-temptation-of-christian.html|first=Tim|last=Blanks|title=The Last Temptation of Christian|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=18 August 2002|access-date=14 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/11/04/prophets-of-seduction |first=Francine|last=Du Plessix Gray|title=Prophets of Seduction|publisher=New Yorker|date=27 October 1996|access-date=14 October 2022}}</ref>
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