Gina Lollobrigida
's private life
was plagued by misfortunes, both in love and in terms of her personal assets.
She was a victim of scams and heartbreak.
She was not only a great actress, an Italian film diva who transcended the borders of her country (she has her own Hollywood star in the Hall of Fame).
At the beginning of the '70s, Lollobrigida decided that her artistic passion led her elsewhere: she left the cinema (to which she would return only twenty years later) to become a photographer, gaining recognition, photographing stars and politicians (including
Fidel Castro
), fellow of adventures from his previous life and great artists.
She also tried her luck as a sculptor and with her exhibitions she traveled all over the world.
November 1972. Gina Lollobrigida and one of her cameras, in her villa in Rome.
AP Photo
But his personal life was much more tormented.
She was (officially) married only once, in 1949, to the Slovenian doctor
Milko Skofic
.
She had her only child with him, and they divorced in 1971.
At the age of 90, she revealed that she had been raped when she was very young and explained that this pain had marked her all her life.
The "Lollo" never admitted or denied love affairs related to the great actors with whom she worked and who would have lost their minds for her.
With the car "Justicialista".
Gina came to the Mar del Plata Festival for the first time, in 1954. Photo Pinelides Aristóbulo Fusco
Even today he was in a legal battle with his son Andrea Milko Skofic, who accuses a collaborator of his mother of
having deceived her by stealing a large part of her fortune
.
Until she suffered a fall at her home in Rome, in September 2022, including a fractured femur, which forced her to undergo an operation from which she emerged, she lived alone in the large villa of Appia Antica, without being a diva at all. .
Gina accepted the candidacy in the last elections, for the single-member constituency of the Senate in Latina, and in other constituencies for the "sovereign and popular Italy" list.
It was not the first time: in 1999 her name appeared on the Democrats' list for the European elections.
Lollobrigida, with her husband, Dr. Milko Skofic, and their two-year-old son, Andrea Milko, in March 1960, in Rome.
AP Photo
Legal issues
His last years were also marked by problems of a legal nature.
Since 2021, the diva had a support administrator, who was appointed by the Court to protect her assets, as requested in her legal action by her son Andrea Milko Skofic.
At the center of the investigation by the Piazzale Clodio prosecutors was the former representative of the actress, Andrea Piazzolla, accused of harming "an incapable person."
Antonio Salvi also ended up on trial with him, the man who allegedly acted as an intermediary with an auction house in the sale of some 350 items owned by Lollobrigida.
With Javier Rigau, at a Red Cross dance, in 2004. Supposedly she got married "deceived" by the Spaniard.
AP Photo
Much earlier, in 2010, she secretly married Spanish businessman Javier Rigau, thirty years her junior.
But later the diva claimed to have married by deception and, after a judicial process in which Rigau was acquitted, she obtained the annulment of the marriage by the Vatican.
He spent his last years in his imposing villa in Rome's Appia Antica accompanied by an assistant, including the aforementioned Andrea Piazzola, 35, accused as we said of appropriating his immense heritage.
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