Tracy Bond

(nee Draco) (1943-1969) is James Bond's love interest in the 1963 novel and its 1969 . She is a wealthy but depressed woman whom Bond rescues from a suicide attempt, and who eventually falls in love with him, marrying him mere hours before her tragic death at the hands of Bond's archnemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
She was portrayed by the late .
==Biography==
Tracy is the daughter of gangster Marc-Ange Draco. She is beautiful and intelligent, but prone to depression and boredom. After her mother died, Tracy's father sent her to a boarding school in , where she became rebellious and wild. After her father cut her out of her inheritance, she married Giulio di Vicenzo, who died in a car accident soon after their wedding. 
Following her husband's death, Tracy attempts suicide by jumping in the ocean, only to be saved by MI6 secret agent James Bond. Bond is puzzled when she gets angry at him for saving her life, but nonetheless helps her escape her father's men, whom Draco sent to bring her home.
Tracy and Bond meet again at the hotel Palacio, where she recklessly makes a bet she cannot pay. Bond offers to stake her, and Tracy invites him to her room - where she attempts to rob him. Bond disarms her, and they sleep together. She disappears the next morning, leaving the full payment for her lost bet. 
Draco has his men detain Bond, and asks him to marry Tracy, believing marriage will force her to outgrow her rebelliousness. Bond refuses, but changes his mind after Draco offers to help him track down Blofeld, the leader of the terrorist organization SPECTRE and Bond's archenemy, in return for continuing to see Tracy. Bond attends Draco's birthday celebration, where Tracy, who knows about Bond's arrangement with her father, gives him her father's intel about Blofeld and demands that he leave her alone. By this time, however, Bond and Tracy have grown to genuinely care for each other, and they begin a relationship.
Bond parts ways with Tracy to go into hiding from Blofeld's henchmen in the town of , but she tracks him down - just in time to rescue him from SPECTRE assassins. They take refuge from a snowstorm in a remote barn, where Bond professes his love to Tracy and proposes marriage, which she accepts. The next day, they are attacked by Blofeld's men, who knock Bond unconscious and kidnap Tracy. When Bond regains consciousness, he asks his superior M for help rescuing her, but M refuses to commit government funds for Bond's personal matter. Bond then enlists Draco for help, and the crime lord has his men assist Bond in attacking SPECTRE headquarters and rescuing Tracy.
On Bond and Tracy's wedding day, she tells him that she is happy at last as they depart for their honeymoon. Moments later, however, Blofeld and his henchwoman Irma Bunt perpetrate a drive-by shooting against the pair, shooting Tracy in the head and killing her instantly. Devastated, Bond cradles her dead body, saying, "It's all right; she's only resting. We have all the time in the world."
Bond avenges Tracy in the following novel, , by strangling Blofeld with his bare hands. The proceeding Bond film, , does not mention Tracy, nor does any other film in the franchise; however, many of them make brief, nonspecific references to Bond having been married or being a widower, and the opening titles of portray Bond paying his respects at Tracy's grave before killing an unnamed villain suggested to be Blofeld.
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