Among the many guests from the entertainment world today, Saturday, April 6, Verissimo also welcomes Luce Caponegro, artistically known as Selen, ready for her new experience as a castaway on Celebrity Island 2024.
While waiting to listen to the interview with Silvia Toffanin let's discover something more about the former porn star.
Selen, the former porn star
Selen, born Luce Caponegro, was born in Rome on December 17, 1966 (she is 57 years old). Daughter of an oil industrialist, she moved with her family to Ravenna, where she began performing in adult clubs until, at the age of twenty-six, she filmed her first pornographic film, actually little more than an amateur video directed by Eugenio De Lorenzi and titled Birthday Orgy.
The career
In the early nineties, she chose the stage name Selen and participated as a contestant in an episode of Il gioco dei 9, hosted by Raimondo Vianello. In the 90s she became very famous thanks to films like Adolescenza perversa, Dracula, Concetta Licata, and Cuore di pietra.
Throughout the decade, Luce Caponegro worked with some of the most famous directors in the industry including Alex Perry, Mario Salieri, Silvio Bandinelli, and Joe D’Amato. In 1999 she announced her retirement from pornography and continued her career as an actress. In 2000 she acted in the film Scarlet Diva by Asia Argento and in 2003 was in B.B. e il cormorano, a film presented at the Cannes Film Festival.
The farewell to pornography
She retired from the world of pornography in 1999 with her last film Millennium, to move on to television as a guest on variety and entertainment programs, such as Maurizio Costanzo Show, Unomattina, Domenica in, I fatti vostri, Ciro, il figlio di Target, Omnibus. She declared that she would never return to porn in the future, as she no longer enjoyed it as before and did not like the profession enough to continue.
The anecdote with Rocco Siffredi
Among the worst memories of her career is the film made in 1993 with Rocco Siffredi, as she told to Corriere della Sera. «He uses women. The evening before shooting, since we were young and hormones were high, we made love. It didn't go well. He had scenes afterward and didn't want to tire himself. At dinner, in front of the crew, I told him, “I hope tomorrow will be better”. And so he took his revenge. In that film, I was a rich lady who went horse riding, he was my butler. I asked him to prepare the bath upon my return from my ride, Rocco took the whip with which he was supposed to caress me and gave me such a strong lash that they had to stop the scene. That episode traumatized me. I never wanted to work with him again».
The private life
The first important relationship of Luce Caponegro was with Fabio Albonetti, producer of an adult film production house. The two got married and from their love in 1988 their son Kangi was born.
After divorcing her first husband, the actress got close to the footballer Nicola Zanone with whom she married in the mid-2000s and from whom she had her second son, Gabriele, in 2007. In 2012 she married for the third time to a man named Antonio Putortì from whom she divorced in 2015. She is now said to be single.
The vow of chastity
Soon after saying goodbye to the world of hardcore in 1999, Luce chose to become chaste to raise her son away from rumors and as a rejection of her previous life. Today she is ready to give herself another chance with men. «After years of chastity, in which I solely devoted myself to being the mother of my son Gabriele, whom I consider the greatest gift received in life, I feel free to make love again, even if it may not arise from feeling but from a mutual understanding of sympathy and intellect», Luce confessed months ago talking about her choice.
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