1970s sexy comedy icon Nadia Cassini
has died at the age of 76 after a long illness, her family said
Wednesday.
Cassini died Tuesday afternoon in her home in Reggio Calabria,
where she had been living for some time.
Cassini was a mainstay of the Italian sexy comedy genre in the
70s and 80, hitting the heights in a series of films starring
Lino Banfi between 1979 and 1980, namely L'insegnante balla...
con tutta la classe (1979), The Nurse in the Military Madhouse
(1979) and La dottoressa ci sta col colonnello (1980).
Her real name was Gianna Lou Müller.
She was born in New York in 1949 to an American father of German
origins, Harrison Müller, and an American mother of Italian
origins, Patricia Noto.
She used the surname Cassini as a stage name after her marriage
to the journalist Igor Cassini Loiewski.
Her last marriage was to Giuseppe Furfaro, an art dealer from
Reggio Calabria.
The funeral will take place in Melito Porto Salvo in her
husband's family chapel on Friday, March 21.
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