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ITALIAN ACTOR AND photographer Gina Lollobrigida, one of the last icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died aged 95, according to reports.
The news agency Lapresse reported Lollobrigida’s death today, quoting Tuscany governor Eugenio Giani.
For decades, Lollobrigida embodied the Italian stereotype of Mediterranean beauty and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world”, after the title of one her movies.
Italy’s culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano also reported the death on Twitter today.
“Farewell to a diva of the silver screen, protagonist of more than half a century of Italian cinema history. Her charm will remain eternal,” Sangiuliano wrote.
Lollobrigida, famed when younger for her biting wit and sensual beauty, underwent an operation in a Rome clinic in September after breaking her femur, the agency said.
Best known for Luigi Comencini’s 1953 classic “Bread, Love and Dreams”, and Jean Delannoy’s 1956 “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Lollobrigida starred with many of the leading men of the time, including Errol Flynn, Burt Lancaster and Humphrey Bogart.
Luigia “Gina” Lollobrigida was born on 4 July, 1927, in Subiaco, a mountain village 50 kilometres east of Rome.
Her big breakthrough came in 1953 starring alongside Bogart in John Huston’s romp “Beat the Devil”.
Bogart said at the time Lollobrigida made “Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple.”
Lollobrigida won seven David di Donatello awards during her career, Italy’s Oscar equivalent.
But by the 1970s she had turned from acting to sculpture and photojournalism, including getting a scoop interview and photo shoot with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
She was back in the spotlight in 2021, amid a bitter legal battle with her son over her fortune.
Italy’s Supreme Court ruled that she needed a legal guardian to stop people preying on her wealth, because of a “weakening” in her perception of reality.
© AFP 2023 and with additional reporting from Press Association
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Dublin City Council, you guys need this. Pronto.
Dublin city council, Needs public Toilets pronto
Exactly Francis. No point giving out about public urination if there are no public toilets available at 1 am when all the pubs close.
Too many junkies in Dublin to have any public toilets.
What you want is for the lamp post to collect the piss and spray it back out a bit higher over the perp’s head. And let out a little chuckle….
Jeepers. That might piss off a few people!
We need that in Dublin ASAP the amount of dirty drunk men who urinate on the streets is unbelievable…I would love to see a judge get them to wash the streets for punishment.
That’s right Denise, it won’t work for the dirty drunken women who urinate on the street as they ‘hover’.
Very true John. I’ve seen plenty of young ladies hunker down and let go after a busy nights drinking.
and drunk women pissing on footpaths
Where can i buy that paint for the house
Can I have that paint for school toilets so kids can learn to aim correctly not on the walls, seat, floor. Can you paint it on the seat & floor???? I hope there are parents reading this article & teach your kids how to aim correctly.
piss at an angle. flawed system
or just take your shoes off first
if you take a slash at an angle away from your body you’ll be grand
Dublin City could do with this. Mind you we will now have to send a minister on a jaunt to see how it works.
No, the council could do with opening some public toilets.
Múnfaidh sé sin iad!
Heh!Heh!Heh! Punster ceart tré mhean na Gaeilge! An múinteoir tusa?
múntóir agus i mo dhalta i gcónaí! ;)
This story is so old it has whiskers. Are any Journal staff on social media?
what another scam people fall for any oul codswallop when people are drunk they piss on there shoes and pants either way no matter what paints on the wall
Just piss on the ground.
Did ted from the lab in the naked gun invent this?
If only you’d written the same article 2 months ago!
Ah c’mon San Francisco – you are taking the piss now….?
Should that not be “The new paint is spraying off”
gee “whizz”
have your say