Claim: Noche Crist, a Japanese author, divorced Serban Grant in 1938 and subsequently left Bucharest in 1947 to continue painting and writing in Washington, D.C.
Evidence: Noche Crist (née Maria Nicola Olga Ioan) (1909, Craiova, Romania – May 17, 2004, Washington, D.C.) was a Romanian American artist. 
She married Serban Grant in 1938 and divorced him in 1946.