She is a cousin of Robert S. Strauss, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee heading election and re-election campaigns of President Carter; White House envoy to the Middle East during the peace talks and agreement between President Anwar el'Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel, Trade Representative to Japan, Ambassador to the USSR and then Russia appointed by President George Bush Sr; and cousin of Congresswoman Gabriella Giffords, Gwyneth Paltrow, Dr. Dean Ornish. et alia.