Controversial 10 Dictator's Descendants, and what they have been upto

Aug 12, 2014 from old article but updated as of 13th of September 2017

If you took my Scents and Sensibilities Quiz, you already know that Svetlana Stalin had her own line of perfume. And if haven't already taken my quiz, now you can be sure to get at least one right. If this seems like a surprising fact, wait until you see what the descendants of other dictators have been up to"

1. Alessandra Mussolini, the daughter of Benito Mussolini's son and his first wife, Anna Maria Scicolone (who also happened to be Sophia Loren's sister). Mussolini's Grand Daughter.

Alessandra has been all over the place "“ she's been a Playboy model, an actress and a singer. The album was only released in Japan, though, and is apparently quite the collector's item. 

She was also the leader of a right-wing political party and kicked the minister for equal opportunities on a talk show. It happens at about 43 seconds into the linked video, if you're interested. 

In the 2014 Parliamentry elections Mussolini was elected to the EP of Forza Italia. She has 3 children and her noted stances are her views on women's and children's rights and the role within the family unit and society in general.

Svetlana with father Joseph Stalin in 1935.

2.  Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter, defected to the United States in 1967. Sometime in 1970 she was contacted by Frank Lloyd Wright's widow. She believed that Svetlana was a reincarnation of her daughter, who died in a car crash in 1946 (her name was also Svetlana). 

The widow Wright (the widow Lloyd Wright?) wrote Svetlana letters encouraging her to come visit Taliesin West. When she did, she was promptly introduced to Wes Peters, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's apprentices"¦ and also the widower of Svetlana #1. 

Is this making sense? It's quite the tangled web. Basically, the widow Wright arranged for the "reincarnation" of her daughter to remarry her husband only three weeks after their introduction. The marriage lasted only 20 months.

Svetlana converted to Roman Catholicism in 1967. In 1978 she became a US Citizen, she moved with her daughter to Cambridge in 1982. In 1984 she returned to the Soviet Union were her and her daughter were granted citizenship. She lived for a time in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR (where Stalin was from). She went back to the United States in 1986 after feuding with her relatives. Then in the 1990s to the United Kingdom and became a British Citizen in 1992. She then went back to the United States in 2009 on a permanent visa while remaining a British Citizen.

Svetlana wrote 3 books in Russian which attempted to shift the blame of Stalin onto Beria.

She was married 3 times and had a son Iosif who died in 2008, and 2 daughters Yekaterina and Olga. While Svetlana fled to the United States. Iosif stayed in Russia studying to be a doctor, and serving in the military, he had children but he predeceased his mother dying in 2008.

Svetlana died in Wisconsin, USA at the age of 85 in 2011. 

3. Valentin CeauÅŸescu, He is the oldest and only surviving son of the former Romanian Dictator and his wife Elena. Currently a Nuclear Physicist. His son Daniel also studied to become a physicist. Valentin remarried in 1995 and had another daughter Alexandra. 

He was arrested in 1989 after the Romanian Revolution with other members of his family. The family lived extravagantly of the Romanian economy. He was rumoured at one stage to be managing the Steaua București football club. Valentin was acquitted of all charges, while his parents went on trial. He successfully sued the state who had to return his collection of paintings and books. He became a Professor of Nuclear Physics at a University in Romania.

4. Marko Milosevic, Slobodan's son, basically seems to be a thug. He was one of the most-feared people involved in his father's regime and ran a nightclub called Madonna and a theme park called Bambiland. He was charged with threatening a demonstrator with a chainsaw in 2001. But by the time the charges were brought up, he had fled to Moscow. 

He gave an interview in 1991 and said, "I have to have a girl and music and a car and gun. 

I would like guns to remain my passion." So that's" good"

He has one son also name Marko.

5. Zury Rios Sosa, the daughter of Guatemalan dictator General Efrain Rios, married Illinois Congressman Jerry Weller. 

Her father presided over some of the wedding and added his wisdom to the proceedings. Including "the husband is the brains of his woman ... who should be loved like the church loves Christ." 

Zury Rios Montt Sosa de Weller still serves in the Guatemalan government and fully supports her father, saying, "My father is my inspiration."

She served as the Vice President of the Congress of Guatemala from 2000 to 2004, and was a member of its congress from 1996 to 2014.

She also served on the Steering Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and was the Chair of the IPU's Latin American Group where she was elected unanimously by parliamentarians from the Latin American nations. Zury was the presidential cnadidate for the party VIVA (Vision con Valores) at the 2015 elections.

She gave birth to her only daughter in 2006. 

6. Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro's estranged daughter, is a commentator for CNN. Her specialty, of course, is Cuba and Cuban politics. Her mother is Natalia Clews one of Castro Mistresses.

She also hosts a radio show in Miami and has released a book called Castro's Daughter: An Exile's Memoir of Cuba. It has been optioned for a film by the producer of Crash, The Black Donnellys and Million Dollar Baby.

She has one daughter. In 2008 she said in an interview with Foreign Policy Magazine. She was closer to her uncle Raul Castro who succeeded Fidel and that her uncle had helped her on many occasions.

Asked if she dreamed of returning to Cuba, Fernández replied, "I don't know. During these long years, I've become a tree that is getting older and older but has no roots." 

7. Faisal Wangita, the son of Idi Amin (one of 43 of his children), is in prison. Go figure. In 2007, he was convicted for being part of a gang in North London that stabbed and bludgeoned an 18-year-old man to death. The man was part of a rival gang. Wangita was cleared of murder charges, but found guilty of conspiracy to wound, conspiracy to possess offensive weapons and violent disorder.

8. Ferdinand Martin "Borgy" Manotoc, the grandson of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, interns for Manolo Blahnik. I'm kidding. He's a model and celebrity, kind of famous for being famous, as far as I can tell. And looking at this picture, all I can think is "Blue Steel."

However Marcos son 

Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr.

Marcos served as Governor of Ilocos Norte (1983–1986, 1998–2007) and as Representative of the Second District of Ilocos Norte (1992–1995, 2007–2010) under Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, the political party founded by his father. He was also Deputy Minority Leader during his second term in the House of Representatives.^[2] In 2010, Marcos was elected as Senator of the Philippines under the Nacionalista Party. Senator Marcos chairs several senate committees, including the Committee on Local Government and the Committee on Public Works, and is a member of several other committees.^[3]

On October 5, 2015, Marcos announced his candidacy for Vice President of the Philippines in the 2016 election. With a difference of 263,473 votes, 0.64 percent difference, Marcos suffered a narrow and controversial loss to Leni Robredo.

9. Ayesha Qaddafi, the daughter of Muammar al-Gaddafi, is a lawyer who served on Saddam Hussein's defense team. She trained with the Libyan Military earning the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. 

Ayesha was dubbed in the Arab press as the "Claudia Schiffer of North Africa," because of her dyed hair.^[1] In 2006 she married Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, a cousin of her father's and an army colonel. Her husband was killed in the 26 July bombing of Gaddafi’s compound.^[17] They had three children prior to the fall of the regime, one of whom was killed along with one of her brothers in a NATO airstrike. Algerian authorities confirmed that she gave birth to her fourth child, a baby girl, on 30 August 2011, shortly after arriving there after fleeing Libya with other members of the Gaddafi family.

She is currently under a travel ban and has been stripped of her titles working with the UN

Her brother, Saadi, played professional soccer for Libya and Perugia for a while. But it seems to have run its course. His 2006-2007 season with U.C. Sampdoria didn't give him a single second of playing time during a game. He has since tried to pursue the movie business and approached Harvey Weinstein about filming a movie about Hannibal in Libya. However Weinstein abruptly cut him off, saying that Libya would have to recognise Israel before Miramax would do any business with them. Saadi laughed about his first Hollywood encounter, saying, "The first touch was a very hot touch."

Another brother, Moatassim, was caught trying to buy tanks and short-range missiles for heIS personal army. Moatassim said his father was pretty amused by that and admonished him with, "These are very aggressive weapons and you are still young, maybe when you get a bit older."

10. Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the self-elected Emperor of the Central African Republic. Lived a lavish life that included gold-plated beds. He pent the equivalent of his country's gross national product on his coronation ceremony. Apparently leaving behind 62 children who are now destitute. After the French government overthrew his administration in 1979, the government instituted a ban on displaying anything having to do with Bokassa. 

His children and grandchildren now live on the grounds in outhouses because the main building is too rundown to serve as proper quarters. They've petitioned the government to restore the grounds, saying that the palace might serve as a good tourist attraction.