Moana Pozzi

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Moana Pozzi (1992)

Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi (born April 27, 1961 in Genoa , † September 15, 1994 in Lyon , France ) was an Italian actress and porn actress .

She began her film career in 1981 and played small roles in cinema and television films. In the same year she also played (without naming her name) for the first time in a porn film ( Valentina, ragazza in calore ). In 1986 she made a small appearance in Federico Fellini's film Ginger and Fred (without being mentioned in the credits) . Shortly afterwards, she met the Hungarian- Italian porn actress Ilona Staller (Cicciolina) and began to act in porn films again, this time under her real name. Through numerous appearances on Italian television, she quickly became a national star in the early 1990s, whose popularity even surpassed the Cicciolinas.

In her 1991 autobiography La filosofia di Moana (The Philosophy of Moana), she stated that she had had numerous affairs and sexual encounters with important men, but did not mention any names. The former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is said to have been one of these men. Together with Ilona Staller, she founded the short-lived Italian party Partito dell'Amore (Party of Love) in 1991, whose program included the legalization of brothels , better sexual education and the creation of "love parks", but which failed in the 1992 elections. In 1993 she ran again in local elections in Rome, but failed again.

She died of liver cancer in Lyon in 1994 at the age of 33 . Her death at this young age and the fact that her cancer was previously completely unknown cast doubt on the truth of the news of her death. Rumors arose that she had actually died of AIDS or, on the contrary, was still alive and only faked her death in order to leave her old life behind and start a new one. It was speculated that she wanted to avoid extortion or embarrassment because of her numerous affairs with (unnamed) influential men due to the political change in Italy at the time (first election of Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister). The fact that apparently no one except family members had seen her body and that the family became embroiled in contradictions after death gave these rumors additional nourishment.

In 1999 the Italian feature film Guardami came out, based on Moana Pozzi's life. On September 12, 2005, the Italian prosecutor Attilio Pisani announced that the investigation into her death would be reopened as there were many errors and inconsistencies in the official report of her death. In December 2005, the Italian television program Chi l'ha visto? For the first time the official death register of the cemetery in Lyon with the exact date of death Moana Pozzis and the cremation certificate shown. Interviews with her family and her long-held secret husband, Antonio Ciesco, confirmed the circumstances of her death. In February 2006, Simone Pozzi (born March 11, 1979) announced that he was not the younger brother Moana Pozzis, as previously believed, but in fact her son.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Di Ciesco: "Così ho aiutato Moana a morire" (Italian)
  2. ↑ Politician and the porn star - did she fake her own death? ( Memento from January 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Pozzi, Moana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pozzi, Anna Moana Rosa (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress and porn actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1994
Place of death Lyon , France