Rukmini Sukarno

Rukmini Sukarno Kline (née Sukarno; 26 August 1942 – 1 May 2009), also known as Rukmini Sukmawati, was an Indonesian-born Italian opera singer who claims to be the daughter of Indonesian president and revolutionary, Sukarno.

Life and career According to Rukmini, she was born on 26 August 1942 in Pangkalpinang, Bangka Belitung, to President Sukarno and Nina Sukarno, a Bengkulu-born woman of German descent. She was of mixed Javanese, Balinese and German descent. An opera singer, she lived in Rome in the 1960s. In 1967, she met and married the American film actor Franklin Latimore Kline. They had a son, Chris Kline (born 1964), a journalist. She was not in court to hear the outcome of the trial. A few days later, she surrendered to the authorities, turning herself in before a state district judge in Houston, Texas and saying she fled after the conviction because she panicked and became ill.

She is listed as a contributor to the presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush in 1987. In July 1988, her appeal against the result of her suit against the Nissho-Iwai American Corporation was denied by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.