Editing Trần Lệ Xuân (section)

== Life in exile ==
The military government of Vietnam under General [[Dương Văn Minh]] confiscated all of the property in Saigon that belonged to Madame Nhu and her family, and she was not allowed  to return to South Vietnam. She went to Rome briefly before moving permanently to France with her children. Her daughter, Lệ Thủy, died in 1967, at age 22, in an automobile accident in Longjumeau, France.

On November 2, 1986, Madame Nhu charged the United States for hounding her family during the arrest of her younger brother, [[Trần Văn Khiêm]], who was charged in the strangling deaths of their parents, Trần Văn Chương and Nam Tran Chuong in their Washington, D.C., home.

In the 1990s, the former first lady of South Vietnam was reportedly living on the French Riviera and charging the press for interviews.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> She has been listed in biographical publications as recently as 2001.

In 2002, Madame Nhu gave an interview to the journalist Truong Phu Thu of ''Dân Chúa Mỹ Châu'', a magazine published for the Vietnamese Catholic community. It was published in October 2004. The article stated that she was living in Paris and that she was working on her memoirs.

In her last years, she lived with her eldest son Ngô Đình Trác and youngest daughter Ngô Đình Lệ Quyên in Rome (her other son lives in Belgium) and was working on a book of memoirs to be published after her death Her memoirs would be written in French and would be translated into Vietnamese and Italian. In early April 2011, she was taken to a hospital in Rome where she died three weeks later on Easter Sunday, April 24, 2011. News of her death was announced by her family and publicized by Truong Phu Thu, who had interviewed her in 2002.  She is survived by two sons and a daughter.