Claim: Following a family death at the age of sixteen, Elvira Orphée started studying literature at the University of Buenos Aires and at the Sorbonne in Paris, and married artist Miguel Ocampo before she had moved to Argentina -where she got divorced.
Evidence: After attending a convent school, she left aged sixteen for Buenos Aires after her mother died. She studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires and at the Sorbonne in Paris. She married artist Miguel Ocampo, the nephew of Victoria Ocampo, in Paris but divorced him after she returned to Argentina.