I was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania in an old family that included a senator, a lawyer, a writer, an oil-fields owner, a gardener, a priest and a World War I hero. My dad, Dinu Grigorescu is a JD and a playwright and my mother, Despina Grigorescu is a teacher who taught French at a historical Bucharest High school, Lazar. My older brother Darie, an entrepreneur, is the financial success in the family. The communists put both my grandparents in jail as political prisoners for years. One died soon after the communists took his land, the other one committed suicide a few years after his release from prison.