She and sister Katia each had their own governess, a family friend told The Post. But when the country descended into civil war in 1975, the family fled first to Greece and then to London and Palo Alto, Calif., then settled on a leafy suburban street in Nassau County, where her parents, Garbis and Ida Tabourian, were staunch supporters of the Armenian community. Arslanian attended New York University, graduating with undergraduate and master’s degrees in international politics and French history, then married New Jersey developer Raffi Arslanian and had two children. They bought a modest home in Englewood Cliffs, with plans to tear it down.
