FILE - In this June 4, 1952 file photo, Argentina's first lady Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, known as "Evita," right, watches as her husband, President Juan Peron, as he is sworn-in for his second ...

From 1946 to 1952, Eva Perón (full name: María Eva Duarte de Perón—though she was born Eva María Ibarguren) was Argentina’s First Lady. Nicknamed Evita, she became a massively popular ...

The real Evita, Maria Eva Ibarguren Duarte de Peron, was a canny, ambitious Latin woman who emerged in the tumult of post-World War II Argentina.

Over 30,000 copies of Pigna’s biography “Jirones de su Vida” (Bits of Her Life), about Eva Peron’s ascent from street to chic and power, have sold in less than a month.

Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, "Evita" as many Argentines still affectionately call her, came from a humble background and had married Juan Domingo Peron, before he became president (from 1946 to 1955 ...

Maria Eva Duarte de Peron was raised in poverty in rural Argentina. At 15, she went to Buenos Aires to pursue an acting career. Several years later, she met Col Juan Domingo Peron.

She was named after iconic Argentine former first lady Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, better known as Eva Peron, or Evita, who died 70 years ago Tuesday.

The 75-year-old former president, whose full name is Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, ... the charismatic Eva “Evita” Peron, who is still idolized here more than half a century after her death.