María de la Asunción Mercader Fordada (6 March 1918 – 26 January 2011) was a Spanish film actress. She appeared in 40 films between 1923 and 1992. She was the second wife of film director Vittorio De Sica. Her half-brother was Ramón Mercader, the murderer of Leon Trotsky in 1940, in Mexico.
...María, which struck with 200 mile-per-hour winds ... “Having said that, there was communication, there was help, what happened is nobody was ready for a hurricane like María,” said Mercader.