In memorium:
Moana Pozzi (b. 27 April 1961 in Genova; d. 15. September 1994 ? in Lyon)
(real name: Anna Moana Pink Pozzi) was an Italian
actress and porn star
She began her film career in 1981 and played small roles in cinema and television films. In the same year she also played (without credit) for the first time in a porn film (
Valentina, ragazza in calore). In 1986 she had a small appearance (uncredited) in Federico Fellini's film Ginger and Fred. On the set she became acquainted with the Hungarian-Italian porn actress Ilona Staller (Cicciolina) and began to appear again in porn films credited under her real name. With numerous appearances on Italian television at the beginning of the 1990s she rapidly became a national star, whose popularity exceeded even Cicciolina's.
In her 1991 autobiography,
La filosofia di Moana (Moana's Philosophy) she indicated numerous affairs and sexual meetings with important men, but did not mention any names. Former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is said to be one of these men. Together with Ilona Staller, she created in 1991 the short-lived Italian political party
Partito dell'Amore (party of love), whose platform included the legalization of brothels, better sexual health, and the creation of "love parks", which failed however in the 1992 elections. In 1993 it again began with restaurant elections in Rome, but failed again.
In 1994, at the age of 33 years, she died in Lyon of liver cancer. Her death at this young age and the fact that her illness was completely unknown before, led to doubts about the official cause of death. Rumors arose, that she really died of AIDS or that quite the opposite, she was still alive and her death only faked, in order to leave her old life behind and begin anew. One wanted to avoid speculation, because of the then-current political change in Italy (first choice of Silvio Berlusconis to become Prime Minister) [vulnerable] to extortion or embarrassment because of her numerous affairs with (anonymous) influential men. The fact that nobody had apparently seen her corpse except relatives, and that the family entangled itself with contradictions after her death, helped to feed these rumors.
In 1999 the Italian feature
Guardami came out, which was based on
Moana Pozzi's life. On 12 September 2005, the Italian public
prosecutor Attilio Pisani communicated that the investigation of her death
would be resumed, since there were many errors and
inconsistencies in the official report over her death. In December
2005, Italian television broadcast for the first time the official register of deaths of the
cemetery in Lyon with the accurate death date of Moana
Pozzi, as well as the certificate of cremation. Interviews
with her family [revealed] its long kept secret of Moana's
[relationship with the already married] Antonio Ciesco,
and affirmed the circumstances of her death. In February 2006
Simone Pozzi (b. 11 March 1979) communicated that he was in fact
their son and not the younger brother of Moana Pozzi (as was earlier thought).
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