Editing Maximilian Schell (section)

==Personal life==
=== Marriages and relationships ===
[[File:Schell and Bernstein-83-1.jpg|thumb|left|Leonard Bernstein and Schell during a TV series in 1983]]
During the 1960s Schell had a three-year-long affair with [[Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary]], former second wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last [[Shah of Iran]]. He also was rumored to have been engaged to the first African-American Supermodel [[Donyale Luna]] in the mid 1960s. In 1971 he had an affair with [[Neile Adams]], according to her.<ref>{{cite book|last=Malone|first=Aubrey|date=2015|title=Hollywood's Second Sex|publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786479788 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PK8GCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA153}}</ref> In 1985, he met the Russian actress [[Natalya Andrejchenko]], whom he married in June 1985; their daughter Nastassja was born in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/02/maximilian-schell |title=Maximilian Schell obituary |date=2 February 2014 |website=the Guardian}}</ref> After 2002, separated from his wife (whom he divorced in 2005), Schell had a relationship with the Austrian art historian Elisabeth Michitsch. In 2008 he became romantically involved with German opera singer [[Iva Mihanovic]], who was 48 years his junior. They eventually married on 20 August 2013.

=== Interest in classical music ===
Schell was a semi-professional pianist for much of his life. He had a piano when he lived in [[Munich]] and said that he would play for hours at a time for his own pleasure and to help him relax: "I find I need to rest. An actor must have pauses in between work, to renew himself, to read, to walk, to chop wood."<ref name=Ross/> Conductor [[Leonard Bernstein]] claimed that Schell was a "remarkably good pianist." In 1982 on a program filmed for the U.S. television network [[PBS]], Schell read from Beethoven's letters to the audience before Bernstein conducted the Vienna Philharmonic playing Beethoven symphonies.

In 1983, he and Bernstein co-hosted an 11-part TV series, ''Bernstein/Beethoven'', featuring nine live symphonies, along with discussions between Bernstein and Schell about Beethoven's works.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuYY1gV8jhU |title=Leonard Bernstein Discussing Beethoven's 6th and 7th Symphony |date=14 January 2011 |publisher=Derek Stoughton |via=YouTube}}, video clip, 9 minutes</ref>

On other occasions, Schell worked with Italian conductor [[Claudio Abbado]] and the [[Berlin Philharmonic]], which included a performance in Chicago of [[Igor Stravinsky]]'s [[Oedipus rex (opera)|''Oedipus Rex'']] and another in [[Jerusalem]] of [[Arnold Schoenberg]]'s ''[[A Survivor from Warsaw]]''.<ref name="Edlinger" /> Schell also produced and directed a number of live operas, including [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''[[Lohengrin (opera)|Lohengrin]]'' for the [[Los Angeles Opera]]. He worked on the film project ''Beethoven's Fidelio,'' with [[Plácido Domingo]] and [[Kent Nagano]].<ref name="Boheme"/>

Schell was a guest professor at the [[University of Southern California]] and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from [[Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership]] in Chicago.<ref name=Boheme/>

=== Allegations of sexual abuse ===
In 1994, producer Diana Botsford sued Schell for sexual harassment, after he allegedly propositioned her and tried to fondle her while they were working together on a television movie she was an associate producer on. The lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount later that year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Woman accuses actor Maximilian Schell of harassment - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/01/13/Woman-accuses-actor-Maximilian-Schell-of-harassment/8321758437200/ |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=UPI |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106513/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm |title=Candles in the Dark (TV Movie 1993) - IMDb |access-date=2024-11-11 |via=www.imdb.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1994-12-09 |title=MAYBE SCHELL WILL KEEP HIS AESTHETIC VIEWS QUIET |url=https://www.deseret.com/1994/12/9/19147059/maybe-schell-will-keep-his-aesthetic-views-quiet/ |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=Deseret News |language=en}}</ref>

In 2023, his niece Marie Theres Relin (daughter of [[Maria Schell]]), wrote in a book that she was abused and lost her virginity to an "uncle" in 1980, when she was 14. She later confirmed to the media that the uncle was Maximilian Schell.<ref name="Spiegel">[https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/maximilian-schell-soll-marie-theres-relin-mit-14-missbraucht-haben-schreibt-sie-a-e0a09af0-6259-479a-81ed-78d4119ea757 "Nichte wirft Maximilian Schell vor, sie mit 14 sexuell missbraucht zu haben"] (Niece accuses Maximilian Schell of sexually abusing her when she was 14), Spiegel, 2023</ref> Shortly thereafter, Schell's daughter Nastassja said to the media that she had known about this, and that she herself had also been sexually abused by her father as a child.<ref name="SZ">[https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/missbrauch-maximilian-schell-tochter-nichte-1.6263474 "Neue Missbrauchsvorwürfe gegen Maximilian Schell"] (New abuse accusations against Maximilian Schell), Süddeutsche Zeitung, 09/30/2023</ref><ref name="StandardA">[https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000189226/auch-tochter-wirft-maximilian-schell-sexuellen-missbrauch-vor "Auch Tochter wirft Maximilian Schell sexuellen Missbrauch vor"] (Daughter also accuses Maximilian Schell of sexual abuse, Der Standard, 09/30/2023</ref>

=== Illness and death ===
Schell died at the age of 83 on 1 February 2014, in [[Innsbruck]], Austria, after a "sudden and serious illness".<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Oscar-Winning Actor Maximilian Schell Dies at 83 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/02/01/world/europe/ap-eu-austria-obit-schell.html?hp |quote=Schell's agent, Patricia Baumbauer, said Saturday he died overnight at a hospital in Innsbruck following a "sudden and serious illness," the Austria Press Agency reported. |newspaper=[[Associated Press]] in the [[New York Times]] |date=1 February 2014 |access-date=1 February 2014}}</ref> The German television news service ''[[Tagesschau (Germany)|Tagesschau]]'' reported that he had been receiving treatment for [[pneumonia]].<ref name=tagesschau>[https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/schell106.html Maximillian Schell is Dead at Tagesschau (German language)]. Retrieved 1 February 2014</ref>
His funeral was attended by [[Waltraud Haas]], [[Christian Wolff (actor)|Christian Wolff]], [[Karl Spiehs]], Lawrence David Foldes, Elisabeth Endriss, and [[Peter Kaiser]]. His grave is in [[Preitenegg|Preitenegg/Carinthia]] (Austria).