Remembering Moana Pozzi: A Mother's Tribute

Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi passed away thirty years ago. Thirty years without the quintessential porn star. And to remember her, in an interview with La Stampa, is her mother, Rosanna Alloisio. 82 years old, but still with a sharp mind. And one should not think otherwise: "She is here. I talk to Moana every morning. In the evening I recite the rosary and we pray. I believe in the afterlife. You might say: Moana Pozzi's mother recites the rosary? Yes, life is like this." To colleague Niccolò Zancan, Moana's mother shows a seventeenth-century angel and recounts that her daughter had bought it from the antique dealers in Rome and kept it in her bedroom in her Rome house on Via delle Fornaci and "she would give it kisses". Totti and Ilary Blasi, the war of the Rolexes (which for now remain in the bank): in court also the former Giallorosso captain. The Passions The mother describes Moana as a little fish, a child who loved to swim. A very beautiful child. But "it was others who made her understand it. One day in a little restaurant they were shooting a movie with Edwige Fenech, a very beautiful woman. Moana was 16 years old, she just had to pass by: "Do you know you could work in the cinema?"" Model for Painters And so it was. But first "she posed nude for painters - Mrs. Pozzi continues to La Stampa - without ever telling me anything. She wanted to move to Rome to attend acting school. I was not at all at ease." Riccardo Schicchi Then Riccardo Schicchi came into Moana's life. An unwelcome person: "I don't want to say even a word about that person. However, I'm sorry that, even now, his wife goes on television to say she knew Moana. But it's false. Many say it, but no one really knew my daughter." For mother Rosanna, Moana was a "judicious, careful, serious girl. She bought two houses in Rome. But she was also a magpie. She loved anything that sparkled: clothes, furniture, paintings. She was also very generous. She personally did charity work because she didn't trust others." Mother and daughter argued many times. Inevitable. They argued about her job: "I said: "How can you do those things?" She replied: "You shouldn't get angry, I am who you see. I'm not that one there." But in the end, Moana always told her: "Mummy, look, I don't mean those nasty things I told you." She has never seen one of her films and never will. But she knows everything about her, even all her loves: "Choosing men was not her strong suit. She had this marriage in Las Vegas, one of those marriages without any value." And Bettino Craxi? "She told me: "He's a very intelligent man, we can talk about everything. And then he takes care of me, like a daughter." To which I replied: "But certain things you don't do with a daughter." Today her mother sleeps in Moana's little bedroom. "She is here. She is mine. I sleep in her canopy bed. I keep on the nightstand the book she had: "The Age of Innocence." This is the blue ribbon with which she tied her hair. These are her prayers. Moana was deeply religious. Above the bed, she kept "The Table of Christ Mocked." Together we went many times to pray at Pope Roncalli's tomb." Last chapter. The legends about Moana Pozzi's alleged death. "False legends. True death. I have all the documents here. She discovered the liver tumor upon returning from a trip to Africa. She was tired, with yellowish eyes. Seven months later, she was no more." And where are her ashes? "Because Moana hated cemeteries. When it came to visiting relatives, she would say: "I don't want to go there, please don't take me." And I don't want any place for her now, to remind her of a cemetery."