Acting Carrier And Net Worth

                    

Introduction:        Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida was an Italian actress, photojournalist, and 

politician who lived from 4 July 1927 to 16 January 2023. She was a prominent European actress during the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, a time when she became a global sex icon. Lollobrigida was one of the last prominent international actors from the Hollywood film industry's Golden Age who was still alive at the time of her passing.

Lollobrigida started a second profession as a photojournalist as her film career began to wane. She scored a scoop in the 1970s when she was granted access to Fidel Castro for a personal interview.

The National Italian American Foundation was one of the issues that Lollobrigida continued to actively support (NIAF). She was given the NIAF Lifetime Achievement Award during the Anniversary Gala of the Foundation in 2008.She donated the roughly $5 million she received from the sale of her jewellery collection to stem-cell therapy research in 2013 after selling her collection. At the 18th Golden Globe Awards, she received the Henrietta Award.

Acting career:   Lollobrigida was given a tentative seven-year contract by Howard Hughes in 1950, under which she would perform in three films each year. Hughes suspended her since she turned down the contract's final provisions and preferred to stay in Europe. In 1955, Hughes sold RKO Pictures, but he kept Lollobrigida's contract. She was unable to participate in American productions shot in Europe because of the issue until 1959, despite Hughes' frequent threats to take legal action against the producers.

She received a BAFTA nomination for her appearance in the 1953 Italian film Bread, Love, and Dreams (Pane, amore e fantasia). She also received a Nastro d'Argento award for her work in the film from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. There was a Lollobrigida in The Wayward.Tulipe, 1952), Beauties of the Night (Les Belles de nuit, also 1952), and Le Grand Jeu, which were three of her most well-known Italian productions.

John Huston, who directed her first widely viewed English-language movie, Beat the Devil (1953), was filmed in Italy. She starred in this movie alongside Jennifer Jones and Robert Morley as Humphrey Bogart's wife. Later, she co-starred with Errol Flynn in the Italian-American film Crossed Swords (1954). She won the inaugural David di Donatello for Best Actress in 1955 for her work.

 The World's Most Beautiful Woman, also known as Beautiful But Dangerous. She sang certain arias from Tosca with her own voice to portray Italian soprano Lina Cavalieri in this movie. She co-starred with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in the Carol Reed-directed circus drama Trapeze (1956), as well as in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

She co-starred with Yves Montand and Marcello Mastroianni in the French film The Law (1959), followed by Frank Sinatra in Never So Few (1959) and Yul Brynner in Solomon and Sheba (1959). (also 1959). [5] The latter, which was King Vidor's final picture, has a dance routine meant to represent an orgy scene. Tyrone Power, who passed away before the bullets were fired, had been replaced by Brynner

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Along with Rock Hudson, Sandra Dee, and Bobby Darin, Lollobrigida played the lead in the romantic comedy Come September from 1961. She was honoured with a Golden Globe for the movie. She also made an appearance in 1961 alongside Anthony Franciosa and Ernest Borgnine in the drama Go Naked in world.

She was then redirected by Jean Delannoy in Venere Imperiale (1962). She got the Nastro d'Argento and David di Donatello prizes for her work with Stephen Boyd. She performed with Rock Hudson once more in Strange Bedfellows (1965), alongside Sean Connery in the thriller Woman of Straw (1964), and with Alec Guinness in Hotel Paradiso (1965). (1966).

Together with Telly Savalas, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, and Peter Lawford, Lollobrigida starred in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell in 1968. She received a third David di Donatello award and a Golden Globe nomination for this performance. In the 1968 comedy The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, Lollobrigida co-starred with Bob Hope. She also joined Hope on his visits to military personnel stationed abroad.

The leading role in Lady L (1965), starring Tony Curtis and directed by George Cukor, went to Sophia Loren instead because of their differences. The same was true for the leading roles in Five Branded Women (1960), which Martin Ritt directed and Silvana Mangano played, and The Lady Without Camellias (1953), which Michelangelo Antonioni directed and Lucia Bosè played. Later,

 she expressed remorse at turning down a supporting role in La Dolce Vita (1960). Federico Fellini, the film's director, intended to cast her in the role, but, as she stated, projects were coming in too often at the time, and her husband lost the script by accident.

At the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, Gina Lollobrigida

By theHer cinematic career had tapered down by the 1970s. She co-starred alongside David Niven in King, Queen, Knave (1972) and a few more critically panned films in the early half of the decade. She served on the jury for the 8th Moscow International Film Festival in 1973.

Television:  She played Francesca Gioberti in the television series Falcon Crest in the middle of the 1980s; Sophia Loren had been offered the part, but she had declined it. She was nominated for a third Golden Globe for the role. Alongside Stefanie Powers, she costarred in the 1985 television miniseries Deceptions in a supporting role. She made a guest appearance in the TV show The Love Boat the following year.

Personal Life: Lollobrigida wed Milko Kofi, a Slovenian doctor, in 1949. On July 28, 1957, Andrea Milko (Milko kofi, Jr.), their lone child, was born. Kofi renounced his medical licence in order to work as her manager. With "kofi" and their son Andrea, Lollobrigida relocated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada from her home Italy in 1960. The couple intended to resolve their son's legal predicament because the Italian government had declared him to be a stateless person. They split up in 1971.

She had a one-night adulterous relationship with Christiaan Barnard, a pioneer in heart transplant surgery from South Africa.

She made her engagement to Javier Rigau y Rafols, a 45-year-old Spanish businessman, public in October 2006, when she was 79 years old. They had become friends after meeting at a party in Monte Carlo in 1984. According to reports, the pressure of high media interest led to the cancellation of the engagement on December 6, 2006.

Lollobrigida and Rigau wed in Spain in 2006 after agreeing to a prenuptial contract.

She filed a lawsuit against Javier Rigau y Rafols in January 2013, alleging that he had arranged a covert ceremony in which he "married" a phoney person posing as her at a Barcelona registry office. She said that after her passing, he planned to claim her estate. Lollobrigida declared that Rigau had committed fraud.

That he had carried out the scheme to gain additional power and had already gained the legal authority to act on her behalf through a power of attorney. "He persuaded me to grant him my power of attorney a while back. He required it for a few legal matters. But I worry that he exploited the fact that I don't speak Spanish, so who knows what he had me sign."  She lost her court case in March 2017, but afterwards declared that she will appeal.

In 1997, Lollobrigida stopped acting in movies. In April 2000, she stated to PARADE: "I accidentally became an actress while attending school when I studied sculpture and painting. I've had a lot of lovers, and I still do. I am incredibly fortunate. I've had way too many fans in my life." After retiring, she split her time between a property in Monte Carlo and her home on 

Via Appia Antica in Rome. After 2009, Lollobrigida forbade guests from entering her house. Through Sotheby's, Lollobrigida sold her jewellery collection in 2013. She gave around $5 million to stem-cell research.

The declaration of nullity for her marriage to Rigau was made by the Roman Rota in 2019 after a two-year legal process and with the Pope's blessing.

By the decade's conclusion, Andrea Piazzolla 

Became the principal associate, general director, and trustee of certain financial and real estate institutions in Monegasque. He was charged with circumventing an incapable in July 2020. At her son's request, the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation decided that Lollobrigida should be granted legal guardianship in 2021 to oversee her affairs and prevent fraud. 

Despite the fact that the court found she was not mentally incompetent, medical evidence suggested that she was "vulnerable" and that there was "a weakening in her right view of reality." Olympic speed skating silver medallist Francesca Lollobrigida is her great-niece, according to sports media in 2022, even if the two were strangers. On January 16, Lollobrigida passed away at a Rome hospital.At the age of 95, in 2023.

Net Worth: At the time of her passing, Gina Lollobrigida's estimated net worth was                     $45 million.

Awards and nominations:

• Six Bambi awards, two Nastro d'Argento honours, and three David di Donatello awards went to Lollobrigida. She had three Golden Globe nominations and one award for World Film 

• Favorite-Female in 1961. She received one BAFTA nomination.

• She received Jack Lang's nomination in 1985 to become an officer of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her accomplishments in photography and sculpture.

• François Mitterrand bestowed the Légion d'honneur upon Lollobrigida.

• Lollobrigida was named a UN Food and Agriculture Organization Goodwill Ambassador on October 16, 1999.
•  Lollobrigida was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 1, 2018.

In popular culture: 

• In the 1958 animated short A Pizza Tweety Pie, Sylvester crashes onto a low bridge with the words "Ducka You Head, Lowla Bridgeada" posted on it as a warning.

• On their 1984 album The Seaside, the English rock group Cardiacs included a song titled "Gina Lollobrigida."

• In a nod to Gina, Karisma Kapoor, an Indian actor, is referred to by her family as "Lolo." 

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