Moana Pozzi
(born April 27, 1961 - die Sep 15, 1994)
Early years
Moana Pozzi was born in Genoa, Liguria. Her parents chose her name watching a geographic map of Hawaii: it means "where the sea is deeper". Her father was a nuclear engineer and he used to move for work around the world with the family. As a teen, Moana lived with the family in Canada, then in Brazil. At 13 years old, in 1974, Moana moved back to Italy with the family, where she finished high school. When the family had to move again to Lyon, France, she decided to start living independently in Rome around 1980 when she was around 19 years old.
In Rome, Pozzi started working as a model and studied acting. Sometimes she performed in TV commercials or as a walk-on in comedy movies. She was very ambitious, and in Rome she became the lover of many famous people. Her most famous secret lover was Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. Through his intervention, she got a job at Rai Television on a children's entertainment program. The same year (1981) she performed her first hardcore movie, Valentina, ragazza in calore ("Valentina, Girl in Heat"), without being credited. A minor scandal ensued since, at the same time the movie was in theatres, she was still working on children's TV. She denied being the same person, but she was anyway suspended from TV. This gave her a first popularity on newspapers and magazines. In 1985 Federico Fellini wanted her to perform in his movie Ginger and Fred.
Popularity
In 1986, Pozzi met Riccardo Schicchi, manager of Diva Futura, the agency of the most famous porn stars like Cicciolina. Her first A-movie in hard core was Fantastica Moana, where she used her real name for the first time. She also took part in the famous Curve Deliziose (Delicious curves) next to Cicciolina others, the first live show in Italy where naked models would masturbate on the stage. This caused scandal and accusations of outrageous obscenity. She became a huge in the hardcore business and soon eclipsed the popularity of Cicciolina in Italy. (At the same time Cicciolina stopped doing porn to pursue a political career in the Italian Parliament.) Pozzi's appearances on TV also caused scandal. In the show Matrjoska by Antonio Ricci, she used to come on stage completely naked or just wrapped in a transparent plastic veil. Magazines and newspapers were more and more interested in her and she was often shown on the cover. Also appreciated was her distinctive intelligence, defying the cliché of the brainless pinup. She cultivated intellectuals, writers, and artists such as Mario Schifano or Dario Bellezza. This was the first time a porn-star became so popular in everyday life. She was the first to show that porn does not always involve shame and repentance.
Early 1990s
Pozzi was conscious of her role in show business. In interviews she always spoke of what she wanted to be for public opinion: sexy, sophisticated, intelligent, open-minded, worldly.
In 1991, Pozzi published her first book Moana's philosophy where she listed, with marks from 4 to 9,5, twenty famous celebrities who had been her lovers. The list included actors like Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi, soccer players like Paulo Roberto Falcão and Marco Tardelli, writers like Luciano De Crescenzo. The name of the most famous one, the actual prime minister Bettino Craxi, who was her lover in 1981, was hidden as "the politician".
In 1992, Pozzi co-founded, with Hungarian Cicciolina Ilona Staller, the Love Party of Italy, whose political program included legalization of brothels, better sex education and the creation of "love parks". No one was elected, but her popularity reached its pinnacle and the best Italian TV anchors wanted to interview her. Stylist Karl Lagerfeld wanted her on the catwalk in 1993. Moana Pozzi became so popular that she was a protagonist for an animated cartoon created by the famous Italian cartoonist Mario Verger, with herself co-directing. This film, entitled Moanaland (1994), aired frequently on Italian television in Blob, and in telecasts dedicated to the actress. Again Verger, by himself, dedicated to Moana Pozzi another cartoon, I Remember Moana, 1995, that gained praise by film critics Marco Giusti and Enrico Ghezzi, and was transmitted in Fuori Orario. It also won a Special Mention at the Erotic Film Festival in the USA.
Her sister Mima became a porn actress, as well, with the stage name of Baby Pozzi.
Death and controversy
In the summer of 1994, Pozzi suddenly started feeling sick, unable to eat without vomiting and increasingly losing weight. She took time off and traveled to India with her secret husband Antonio Di Ciesco. She returned looking very ill and had to enter a clinic in Lyon, France, just out of Italy's popularity, near to the family.
She died suddenly on 15 September 1994 at the age of 33 of liver cancer (according to the tabloid press of AIDS, but that rumor was ultimately unsubstantiated). News of her death broke on 17 September 1994. Only her family and some close colleagues knew about her sickness, and on TV she was still shown healthy and smiling in programs recorded before the end of summer. No funeral ceremony took place and she received no obituary.
Rumours about her still living in the USA or in India began circulating immediately. Her family's silence gave more impulse to that. Her death in a foreign country also made it harder to check the death certificate.
On the 10th anniversary of her death (2004), new rumors about her sudden disappearance resurfaced. The court of justice of Rome opened a new file in order to find out whether she was alive or dead. In December 2005, the Italian TV show Chi l'ha visto? presented for the first time the official death certificate of a Lyon cemetery, recording the exact day of the actress's death. Interviews with the family finally confirmed the circumstances. Her husband Antonio di Ciesco was also interviewed for the first time in 1995. Also shown was the unmarked grave in the "Pozzi" burial plot in Lerma, near Alessandria in Piedmont, northern Italy.
Her brother Simone, whom she was especially close to, revealed in February 2006 on the same TV programme that he was actually the son of Moana, and not her brother. Moana's mother confirmed this some time ago. He wrote a book exposing the truth, published in 2006. The book reveals for the first time, Moana's personality, her differing relations with the other members of the family (especially with her sister Mima) and the description of her illness and death.
On 2 April 2007, Pozzi's husband Antonio Di Ciesco revealed to the newspaper "Il Messaggero" that during her final days, Moana had asked him to help her dying. He euthanized her by letting air enter her IV.
Success
Moana Pozzi performed in about 100 porn movies, mostly in Italy, but also some in Los Angeles with Gerard Damiano as director. She sold about 1 million videotapes. She graced the covers of 50 major magazines, not including pictorials in porn magazines. She was reportedly worth more than 50 billion 1990 Italian liras, about 40 million Euros. Some of her profits were donated posthumously to funding medical research on tumors.
The Italian movie Guardami ("Watch me") is based on her life.
Luigi uomo di fiducia di don Enrico, durante l' assenza del suo padrone concede l' uso del maniero ad un fotografo, che con la sua troupe invade il vecchio e sonnacchioso castello, che, come tutte le vecchie dimore della nobilta', nasconde un fantasma nelle sue cantine.L'improvviso ritorno di don Enrico mette in estremo imbarazzo Luigi, ma la troupe, con la simpatia propia degli artisti, riesce ad accattivarsi la simpatia del padrone di casa. Durante la notte, quando tutto sembra in pace, il fantasma dell' antenato si risveglia e, tra paura ed esileranti situazioni, riesce a far partire il fotografo con tutto il suo seguito e a ristabilire la naturale quiete che da secoli regna nel castello.
Un must per i fans di Moana e per i collezionisti videoarcheologici. Introvabile!
Luigi uomo di fiducia di don Enrico, durante l' assenza del suo padrone concede l' uso del maniero ad un fotografo, che con la sua troupe invade il vecchio e sonnacchioso castello, che, come tutte le vecchie dimore della nobilta', nasconde un fantasma nelle sue cantine.L'improvviso ritorno di don Enrico mette in estremo imbarazzo Luigi, ma la troupe, con la simpatia propia degli artisti, riesce ad accattivarsi la simpatia del padrone di casa. Durante la notte, quando tutto sembra in pace, il fantasma dell' antenato si risveglia e, tra paura ed esileranti situazioni, riesce a far partire il fotografo con tutto il suo seguito e a ristabilire la naturale quiete che da secoli regna nel castello.
Un must per i fans di Moana e per i collezionisti videoarcheologici. Introvabile!
Starring:Moana Pozzi, Joy Karin’s, Eva Orlowsky , Sonia Attanasio, Sandrine Defau, Maria Salemme, Gaetano Esposito, Mario De Sica, Daniel Mendoza, Philippe Danton, Robert Malone, Startrek, Max Bellochio
Year: 1990
Film storico ambientato nella malavita napoletana, interpretato da Moana ed altre prorompenti star. Ruolo: l'amante ninfomane di un camorrista
Moana, dolce Moana.. Un inedito davvero speciale, con situazioni molto particolari, con un grande cast internazionale! Segnaliamo la performance di Rocco, davvero in gran forma lo stallone italiano, con la nerchia più dura che mai!
Starring:Moana Pozzi, Andrea Molnar, Barbara Reimann, Jennifer, Vampirella, Virna Anderson as Barbarella, Rocco Siffredi
Year: 199x
Moana è stata la più amata tra le attrici hard di tutti tempi!!! Questo film è un ennesimo grande regalo della fm al proprio pubblico!! Un altro grande classico. Sognate insieme a noi, vivete ancora un volta il grande brivido... Moana!!!
Starring:Moana Pozzi, Andrea Molnar, April Summer, Carole Nash, Isabelle Adorata, Luana Borgia, Milly d'Abbraccio, Roberta de Marques, Vampirella, Rocco Siffredi, Jean-Pierre Armand, Richard Langin, Christophe Clark, Ron Hightower, John Dough, Joey Silvera
Year: 199x
I grandi inediti di Moana Pozzi, i.e. previously unreleased material. Also stars Lacey Rose (American).
Actresses.
Le amiche del cazzo un grande film con la bellissima Moana, in compagnia di Milly D'Abbraccio, un duo da non perdere. Un film cult dalle grandissime emozioni! Moana, dolce Moana.. Un inedito davvero speciale, con situazioni molto particolari..Grande cast! Segnaliamo la performance di Rocco..davvero in gran forma lo stallone italiano, con la nerchia più dura che mai!
Starring:Moana Pozzi, Andre Allen, Desiree, Jade East, Jeannie Pepper, Sean Michael
Year: 1989
Un'altro capolavoro dell'indimenticabile Moana, che tanto ha dato alla cinematografia hard mondiale, e che questa collezione davvero è assolutamente imperdibile.... La mitica Moana!!!!
a.k.a. Sündiges Fleisch, The Last Resort, Vogliose e Insaziabili, Vogliose e Insaziabili per Stalloni Superdotati, Les Ingénues 2
Director: Jim Reynolds
Starring:Moana Pozzi, Ilona Staller (as Cicciolina), Rachel Ryan, Ebony Ayes, Ray Victory, Tom Byron, Gregor Samsa, Don Fernando, Johnny Ace, Nina DePonca, Jon Dough, Peter North, Marc Wallice
Year: 1989
Hot sex queen, Cicciolina, takes a second slice of Italian hearts as she makes a spicy return in The Rise of the Roman Empress II. Steamy scenes of intercourse, masturbation, orgies, oral erotica and girl on girl action, prove over and over again why Cicciolina is the most sensual star in the universe. Joined by some of America's brightest stars; Nina De Ponca, Rachel Ryan, John Dough, Tom Byron and Ray Victory, she sizzles her way through each torrid affair.
Starring:Moana Pozzi, Baby Pozzi, Cicciolina, Eva Orlowsky as Eva Orlosky, Hula Hop, La Nuova Ramba, Petra Scharbach as Petra
Year: 1988
La redazione di Diva Futura aiuta un ricercatore che ha scoperto un vaccino anti-Aids. Ad essa si oppone il proprietario di una fabbrica di preservativi.
a.k.a. Calda femmina da letto, Die intimen Perversionen der Sophie Shelton
Director: Jim Reynolds
Starring:Moana Pozzi, Rachel Ryan, Nina De Ponca, Jade East, Trinity Loren, Peter North, Ray Victory, Randy West, Mike Horner, Tom Byron
Year: 1988
Hot and bothered Italian cloak and daggeress Moana is training a brand new cadre of female recruits in the fine art of getting heads of state in over their heads by giving them a ?hard? time. Mata Hari didn?t have a thing on Ms. Moana in the sex for secrets department. She?d have most guys telling not only where they hid the micro film she finished saying drop your pants! This is the film for lovers of dirty spy stories. The sex is thunderous, the women are gorgeous and the story is actually quite good.
Moana che si fa i negri più dotati d'America, la splendida Rachel Ryan che concede il culo all'inossidabile Peter North, Tom Byron e la ninfomane Nina, e ancora Moana con tre cazzi da soddisfare. Calde femmine da letto vi aspetta a cosce larghe!
Starring:Moana Pozzi, Marino Masé, Petra Scharbach, Hula
Year: 1988
Rimasta vedova, la bella Vanessa si trasferisce su di un'isola con le due figliastre. Le ragazze lasciano trasparire l'odio latente verso la donna quando questa viene raggiunta da Roberto, uno dei suoi ex amanti.
Moana Pozzi stars in this Italian erotic film in which a professor heads out to a small Italian village for a much needed summer vacation. He soon runs into Vanessa (Pozzi) and her 2 daughters. A torrid sexual relationship between Vanessa and the professor begins, but the daughters also have their sights set on the older man.
Starring:Moana Pozzi, Susan Turner, Marie Christine Covi, Rocco Siffredi, Robert Malone, Frank Mazard, Gabriel Zero, Riccardo Schicchi (ruolo non sex)
Year: 1987
Moana Pozzi stars as doctor who get caught up in bizarre love trangle that lead to death in the end. This film is not list on the Imdb it is super rare. A rare teasure make it to be yours, A total must to have.
Starring: Susan Turner, Lana Howard, Valerie Sidy, Rocco Siffredi, Gabriel Pontello, Moana Pozzi, Luigi Soldati, Roberto Malone, Christophe Clark (uncredited)
Year: 1986
The Gabriel Pontello character is obsessed with Moana Pozzi who appears on billboards etc. Every time he sees a similar looking woman he fantasises that she is Moana and fantasises about having sex with her, on his own or with other males - or does have sex with her and imagines that she is Moana. There is so much intercutting between fantasy and reality that it is difficult to tell which is which. A curly brunette in dark glasses has a b/b/g scene. Other females get involved in an orgy scene with Moana and the males, as well as the short-haired blonde (Valerie Sidy) whom Pontello imagines to be Moana.
There are water sports in a couple of scenes, but it is difficult to tell whether it is Moana or her surrogate who is on the receiving end. Moana does do anal and DP. One of the unidentified females would be Lana Howard and the other Susan Turner.
Due coppie di coniugi, rispettivamente interpretate da Andrea Roncato/Moana Pozzi e Gianni Ciardo/Tinì Cansino, si fanno le corna vicendevolmente, ma, per ironia della sorte, scelgono per i loro incontri lo stesso appartamento sfitto. È chiaro che nascono equivoci a non finire tra uno sbattere di porta e l'altro. Ad approfittare della situazione sarà alla fine un cugino un po' tonto.
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Starring: Lino Banfi, Claudio Boldi, Massimo Boldi, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Christian De Sica, Paola Onofri, Andrea Roncato, Gigi Sammarchi, Ricky Tognazzi, Paolo Villaggio, Moana Pozzi
Year: 1984
La squadra numero 17 è un fallimento totale. Il comandante e gli altri cinque membri, giovani in servizio civile e anziani richiamati in addestramento, non riescono a portare a termine un¿esercitazione o un salvataggio senza incidenti e goffaggini, finché un giorno, chiamati in soccorso da un ex collega, gli improbabili pompieri si riscattano davanti all'incredula troupe di una televisione locale.
Moana interpreta la moglie infedele di Nicola (Lino Banfi).
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Starring: Johnny Dorelli, Paolo Villaggio, Maurisa Laurito, Adriano Pappalardo, Moana Pozzi
Year: 1984
Il finanziere Emanuele Sansoni, per sfuggire dalla Guardia di Finanza e anche dalla Mafia, con una valigia piena di documenti compromettenti, a causa del crack finanziario che lo ha coinvolto, gira mezza Europa con lo sprovveduto tassista Gino Sciaccaluga, sampdoriano purosangue. Sansoni si traveste da donna per non farsi scoprire e lascia credere al tassista che sia sua sorella Erichetta detta Etta. Gino se ne innamora perdutamente e "lei" lo convince ad entrare in una società fantasma con il fratello, dopo che ha chiesto invano ad ex amanti un prestito di trenta miliardi.
Dopo la creazione della società il tassista si ritrova nell'alta finanza, e intuisce in qualche parola di Sansoni col notaio che qualcosa non va, visto che quando le cose andranno meglio, dovrà firmare l'uscita dalla società. Intanto la moglie di Sciaccaluca (M. Laurito) si consola con un uomo delle forze dell'ordine (A. Pappalardo) chiamato dopo la denuncia della scomparsa del marito, la quale si fa vivo solo con delle frammentarie telefonate.
Alla fine dopo una vincita al casinò, e dopo aver sconfitto i mafiosi, Sansoni fugge a Casablanca: Sciaccaluga rimane solo e viene a sapere la verità su Erichetta. Tornato a casa, viene sbattuto fuori dalla moglie e dell'amante; senza più niente va a suicidarsi, ma viene trovato appena in tempo da Sansoni, appena rientrato in Italia, con le cose messe a posto.
Sciaccaluga sale sul panfilo del finanziere deve firmare l'uscita dalla società, in cambio di soldi, ma si ricorda tutto: non firma e resta padrone di tutto: i ruoli si scambiano e sarà Emanuele a guadagnarsi da vivere facendo il tassista.
Ah, in questo film, nel ruolo di una delle donnine del Dorelli-berlusconiano c'è la compianta in un ruolo pre-hard, che già girava a seno scoperto all'inizio e alla fine del film.Maona Pozzi
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Starring: Coluche, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Carole Bouquet, Moana Pozzi
Year: 1984
Siamo in pieno Medioevo. Dagobert, re dei Franchi, va in pellegrinaggio a Roma, per chiedere perdono al Papa della propria vita dissoluta. Gli intrighi romani hanno però messo sulla cattedra di San Pietro un sosia del vero Papa; Dagobert se ne accorge e smaschera l'usurpatore, ma sulla strada del ritorno viene ucciso a tradimento dal suo consigliere, il monaco Otarius, assetato di potere e corrotto dagli ozi romani.
Moana fa il ruolo di una concubina del re Dagobert.
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