First full nude in an Italian club, first porno star to enter Parliament
Seventy years, intensely lived: it is the least that can be said for Cicciolina, pseudonym of Ilona Staller, in turn stage name of Elena Anna Staller, which she performs on Friday 70 years old, having been born on November 26, 1951 in Budapest. Two nationalities, Hungarian by birth and Italian by adoption and marriage; And many lives from childhood to peaceful ‘old age’, even if the common thought struggles to see her as an elderly woman … A particular life, from the beginning when her father leaves the family and she lives with her obstetric mother and stepfather. An adolescence started in the sign of art, dedicated to musical studies of violin and piano and then of classical and modern dance, finally leading to the world of images at just 13 years old, as model in a photo agency.
But then, life calls for other commitments: go and do it waitress in a hotel, where he also ‘collaborates’ as indicator light towards wealthy American businessmen, until he meets a Calabrian client, follows him to Italy and marries him. In the beautiful country he knows then Riccardo Schicchi and begins a ‘second life’ alongside her manager, who launches her on a nocturnal radio program earning the nickname of Cicciolina, since ‘cicciolini’ and ‘ciccioline’ were the endearments with which he addressed radio listeners during their telephone conversations with an erotic background.
At this point, the step
by Cacciolina
to Ilona Staller is short, with the participation between 1975 and 1976 ‘soul and body’, especially the latter, in films such as ‘The high-school student’ And ‘The alternate’; but Ilona-Cicciolina also stars in auteur films, directed by Alberto Lattuada in ‘Dog heart’ and by Miklos Jancsò for ‘Private vices public virtues’. Also dated 1976 is the first full nude in an Italian restaurant, which obviously sees her as the protagonist. While the landing on TV is a few years later, in 1980 with ‘There was twice’ directed by Enzo Trapani in the late evening on Rai2, where he performs in the company of a python, which is also his property.
Then comes the time of the pornographic films starting from 1983 and the parallel foundation with Riccardo Schicchi of theDiva Futura agency, who will discover – in every sense … – women like Moana Pozzi, Ramba, Barbarella. Only two years later, Cicciolina enters politics and does so from the front door: first she adheres to Radical Party and its anti-nuclear battles, then in 1987 it shows up and comes elected to Parliament, by popular acclaim, given that he wins the second place by preference votes in his electoral list after the historical leader Marco Pannella. In 1992 he tried an encore by founding his own movement, the Party of Love together with Moana Pozzi: but without success.
Success, on the other hand, comes to his luck in the courtrooms. In fact, in 1991 she married him American avant-garde sculptor Jeff Koons, but the marriage is shipwrecked after a little over a couple of years; she moves to the US and engages in a legal battle to get thecustody of his son Ludwig. The Italian court agrees with her, even though she is sentenced to 8 months in prison for having kidnapped her son in the United States and brought him to Italy. And she is acquitted in the international trial entitled ‘Ilona Staller’. In short: a sufficiently adventurous life, to now aspire to a peaceful ‘old age’ … Best wishes, Cicciolina!
(from Enzo Bonaiuto)
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