American actress Nadia Cassini, who discovered fame as a intercourse image within the Italian style scene of the Nineteen Seventies and 80s, has died in Italy on the age of 76.
The actress and showgirl’s solely daughter Kassandra Voyagis confirmed her mom’s dying after an extended sickness on March 18 within the southern Italian metropolis of Reggio Calabria in a social media submit.
Cassini was born Gianna Lou Müller on January 2, 1949, in Woodstock, New York, the place her dancer and actor dad and mom had been on tour with a present.
She took her title from her first husband, the journalist Igor Cassini, whom she adopted to Italy after he moved there for a time to supervise the style home of his designer brother Oleg Cassini. They divorced in 1972, and Cassini moved on with Greek actor Yorgo Voyagis, father of Kassandra.
In between occasions, Cassini had secured small roles in Romolo Guerrieri’s Il Divorzio and Piero Vivarelli’s The Snake God.
After a quick return to the U.S., the place she had a small position in Mike Hodge’s Pulp reverse Michael Caine, and taking trip for the beginning of her daughter, Cassini returned to Italy, the place her profession took off as a intercourse image in a slew of Italian style motion pictures throughout the late Nineteen Seventies and early Eighties
Her credit on this interval included 1978 house opera Starcrash, an early manufacturing of Patrick Wachsberger alongside his father, in addition to a string of so-called Italian Commedia Attractive movies together with Io zombo, tu zombi, lei zomba, The Nurse In The Navy Madhouse and Lovely Infidels, which propelled her to fame in Italy.
After the style began to die out, Cassini reinvented herself as a showgirl in Eighties selection exhibits of the then rising channels of Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset TV community resembling Drive In and Premiatissima.
Cassini retired from the leisure world within the late Eighties.
