Princess Tatiana von Fürstenberg was born on February 16, 1971 in New York City to fashion designers Diane von Fürstenberg and Prince Egon von Fürstenberg. On her mother's side she is of Jewish Moldovan, and Jewish Greek descent. On her father's side she is of German and Italian descent, and a member of the House of Fürstenberg. Her paternal grandparents were Prince Tassilo zu Fürstenberg and Clara Agnelli, the elder sister of Fiat's chairman, Gianni Agnelli. Her older brother is Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg. She was raised mostly by her maternal grandmother, Liliane Nahmias, a Holocaust survivor, and her paternal grandmother Clara. When she was six years old her mother released a perfume, Tatiana, which was named after her. As a teenager she was diagnosed with a genetic disorder. She was educated at Cranborne Chase School and went on to attend Brown University to study modern culture and media, comparative literature, and education. After graduating from Brown in 1991 she did graduate work in applied psychology at New York University. Her parents divorced in 1972. Her father remarried Lynn Marshall in 1983 and her mother remarried Barry Diller in 2001. She is the aunt of Princess Talita von Fürstenberg, Prince Tassilo von Fürstenberg, and Prince Leon von Fürstenberg.