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A former lawyer for Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida announced, on Monday, the death of the famous star, who embodied the vibrant new birth of Italy following World War II, at the age of 95. Lulu Brigida played roles in front of big stars in Hollywood, such as Humphrey Bogart, Rock Hudson, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra, and led, along with Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale, the Italian cinema scene from the fifties to the nineties of the last century, before turning to photography and sculpture, following moving away. regarding the world of cinema. In September, her bid to win a seat in the Italian parliament for a left-wing political party failed.Gina Lollobrigida, who filled the world with her beauty and occupied people, since she starred in the famous movie “The Most Beautiful Women in the World”, which later became her title, was born on July 4, 1927, in a poor mountainous area east of Rome, and studied sculpture at the Academy Fine Arts in the capital. Among the most famous films in which she participated: “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “Beat the Devil”, and “Beautiful but Dangerous”.
The actress made headlines widely in 2006 when she announced, at the age of 79, that she would marry a man 34 years her junior. However, Lollobrigida later called off the wedding, blaming the media for spoiling it.
In a famous interview she gave when she was eighty years old, she said: “All my life I wanted true love; But I never had any love. Nobody really loved me. I am a tired woman.”
“La Lulu,” as the Italians like to call them, said she considered younger men to be more generous and open.
In 2013, when she was 85 years old, Lollobrigida sold a collection of her jewelry through Sotheby’s in Geneva for $3 million, which she donated to stem cell research.
