For roughly 50 years, she accompanied Henry Kissinger through diplomatic travel, Washington political life and later New York's high-profile social circuit after their 1974 marriage.
Politically savvy and protective of her husband's legacy, she remained closely tied to the public life surrounding the former secretary of state, who served from 1973 to 1977.
Her death closes a long partnership that spanned Henry Kissinger's years as a globe-trotting diplomat and his later, more controversial role as an elder statesman.