Gina Lollobrigida

The 95-year-old actor turned photojournalist previously ran for European Parliament in 1999.

Hollywood icon Gina Lollobrigida running for senate in Italy Back to video Hollywood icon Gina Lollobrigida running for senate in Italy Hollywood legend Gina Lollobrigida will run for Senate in Italy’s election next month.

Italian screen siren Gina Lollobrigida, 95, has announced she will stand in Italy's general election next month, in the latest dramatic twist in her ...

I have the right to live and also to die in peace.' Last month he was accused of selling the actress' F-Type Jaguar for €130,000 and pocketing the proceeds. She admits she has had myriad affairs, once remarking: 'I've had many lovers and still have romances. Flirtatious: Gina, above in 1959, admits she has had myriad affairs, once remarking: 'I've had many lovers and still have romances. He is now her running mate Colourful private life: The actress has gone from furniture maker's daughter to an international film star, with forays into sculpture, photography and beauty pageants. It is not the first time that a man close to Lollobrigida has been accused of trying to steal her fortune. But they were always jealous of me . . . so they all disappeared. The actress is locked in a long-running legal battle with estranged son Milko Skofic — the sole heir to her fortune by her marriage to a Slovenian doctor — over control of her finances. I will never forget this cruelty.' All my life, I've had too many admirers' In demand: The actress, pictured in her heyday, was pursued across continents by some of the world's richest and most famous men, including Prince Rainier of Monaco

Ninety-five-year-old Italian movie legend Gina Lollobrigida has announced that she is running for the nation's Senate in next month's elections, ...

Lollobrigida previously tried a political career in 1999 when she ran for a seat in the European Parliament. She lost that election, when she represented Romano Prodi's centrist Democratici party, according to the Daily Mail. With elections set for Sept. 25, Bloomberg reported that a right-wing coalition — led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy and including Matteo Salvini's League party and former premier Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia — is in first place in the polls, with Lollobrigida's party attempting to pass the three-percent threshold that is required to enter parliament. The actress said she was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, for his "way of doing things, for his non-violence" and that she was a "great friend" of India's first female prime minister, Indira Gandhi. "I saw her every time she came to Rome," describing her as an extraordinary woman."

The latest Tweet by Bloomberg states, 'An icon of Italian cinema, Gina Lollobrigida, will run for the nation's Senate in next month's elections after ...

The party's co-leader and founder is one Marco Rizzo, formerly General-Secretary of the Italian Communist Party. Somewhat predictably, given Rizzo's pedigree, ...

More recently, in 2019, Italian magistrate Eleonora Fini alleged that Andrea Piazzolla, then 31 and Ms. Lollobrigida’s manager, syphoned hundreds of thousands of euros of her wealth into his parents’ account. An Italian court ruled that the marriage was legitimate. Possibly its highest profile candidate is none other than the former actress once declared to be the most beautiful woman in the world - Gina Lollobrigida, now 95 years of age. What is the need to go against the little but glorious Cuba, after they helped Italy by sending Medical Brigades during the pandemic? In this context, it is not entirely inconceivable that Marco Rizzo's Sovereign and Popular Italy Party could find itself a part of a coalition before the end of the year - Italy's far-right who are polling well are also somewhat pro-Putin, and as we know, politics makes for strange bedfellows - and Gina Lollobrigida may well find herself back in the limelight! What is the need to provoke Russia, after Putin offered us all the gas supplies we need at pre-crisis prices?...