Sofia,
Maria, Marcello
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Sophia + Marcello =
Maria?
Italian beauty Sophia
Loren, the illegitimate child of actress Romilda Villani and Riccardo Scicolone,
may have had a bundle of secrecy herself.
Or so claims John
Palcewski, an American short-story writer. Palcewski told an Italian
journalist that his girlfriend, Maria, who lives on the island of Ischia
in the Bay of Naples, is the daughter of the screen legend.
"[Her father]
admitted [to Maria] that he was not her biological father and that her mother
was a famous Italian movie star who had conceived her while making the film
'Ieri, oggi e domani' ['Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow']," Palcewski told
the Italian press, citing a Loren film that won an Oscar in 1965 for Best
Foreign Language Film.
"Her co-star and
lover was Marcello Mastroianni."
[Mastroianni's only
child, actress Chiara, was born to Catherine Deneuve.]
Sources in Loren's
camp bristle at the accusation.
"She has no
daughter," an irate woman at Loren's Switzerland digs told us over the
phone. She would not give her name but explained she was employed to
"clean the house" and "close the windows."
"People are
crazy," the professional window-closer went on. "There are a lot of
sick people who say they are her husband or child. Once a black lady claimed
she was the daughter of Sophia Loren!"
Loren, the
indisputable mother of two boys, writer/director Edoardo Ponti and
conductor Carlo Ponti Jr., was unavailable for comment. Her
U.S.representatives said she is in Europe and unreachable.
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