Ilona Staller

Ilona Staller, known professionally as Cicciolina, is an Italian-Hungarian former pornographic actress and singer who served in Italy’s Chamber of Deputies from 1987 to 1992.

Riccardo Schicchi: An Italian talent manager and pornographic filmmaker who helped shape the country’s adult-entertainment industry. He managed Staller and helped build the public persona behind her stage name.
Chamber of Deputies (Italy): The lower house of Italy’s Parliament, whose members are elected by voters. Staller held a seat there for one legislative term, from 1987 to 1992.
Party of Love: An Italian political party founded in 1991 by figures from the adult-entertainment industry. Staller helped establish the party after her parliamentary term, extending her political activism.
1987 Italian general election: Italy’s national parliamentary election held on 14–15 June 1987. Staller won a Chamber of Deputies seat as a candidate of the Radical Party.
Moana Pozzi: An Italian pornographic actress who entered politics and co-founded the Party of Love. Her later political career echoed Staller’s use of celebrity in Italian public life.
Italian Radical Party: An Italian political party associated with civil liberties, secularism, and nonviolent activism. Staller was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on its electoral list.
Cicciolina: The stage persona used by Ilona Staller in entertainment and public life. The persona fused erotic performance with an unusually visible political identity.
1991 marriage of Jeff Koons and Ilona Staller: The marriage of American artist Jeff Koons and Ilona Staller, which lasted until 1994. Their relationship became the subject of Koons’s Made in Heaven works.
Jeff Koons: An American artist known for sculptures and paintings that engage popular culture and consumer imagery. His 1991 marriage to Staller became part of his art and public image.
Nuclear disarmament: The reduction or elimination of nuclear weapons through unilateral action or agreements between states. Staller made anti-nuclear advocacy a visible part of her political profile.

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