Zofia potocka biography of william

DOSSIER:
Zofia Clavone, daughter of Constantine and Maria Clovone, was born 12 Jan 1760 in Bursa, Anatolia, Ottoman Empire.

She died on 24 Nov 1822 in Berlin, Prussia.

She was a Greek prostitute, slave and spy who became a Polish noblewoman as the wife of Stanislaw Szczesny Potocki. She was famous in the Europe of her day for her dramatic life and her love affairs and was known as the lover of Grigory Potemkin, among others.

ALSO KNOWN AS:
Sophia de Tchelitche
La Belle Phanariote

In 1772, when she was twelve, her mother, who supported herself by selling vegetables, sold Zofia to the Polish ambassador in Constantinople, who provided the Polish monarch with prostitutes: her sister was sold to a Turkish pasha. Zofia was the mistress of the ambassador until 1778, when she became a prostitute and called herself Sophie de Tchelitche. 

In 1779, she was bought by a Polish Commander, Józef Witt, who married her.

They had two sons, Jan and Kor