In her life, Sandra Milo, who died today at the age of 90, was married four times and had three children. But her «absolute love» was Federico Fellini. A passion that lasted 17 years despite the director being married to Giulietta Masino. In the two masterpieces of the Rimini master - 8½ (1963), two Oscar Awards and Giulietta of the Spirits (1965) - Sandrocchia (as she was affectionately nicknamed by the director) played the role of an ironic and uninhibited femme fatale who, in addition to embodying the director's erotic imagination, was often contrasted with the wives, women with a more modest appearance and a more bourgeois mentality.
Love with Fellini
Sandra declared that Fellini was the absolute love of her life, revealing that at the beginning she was very much in love with him, while he felt only a great attraction. «But then at a certain point, he also realized that he loved me and, after 17 years, he told me that he realized that I was the woman of his life. He wanted to end his days with me. But I said no. Because I was scared».
The 4 marriages
In her life, she was married four times and had three children. Her first husband was Cesare Rodighiero, when she was only 15 years old. She became pregnant, but the baby died at birth due to premature birth. The couple separated after only 21 days of marriage, obtaining the annulment from the Sacred Rota. Later the actress married Moris Ergas, with whom she had her daughter Debora. Then she married a third time with Ottavio De Lollis, father of her two children Ciro and Azzurra. Finally, in 1990 she married the Cuban Jorge Ordoñez. Although, as she stated in an interview with Vanity Fair, that relationship was never real: it was just a ploy to get people talking about her.
The relationship with Craxi
Sandra Milo was linked to the Italian Socialist Party since the 1960s, and was very close to Pietro Nenni. In the 1980s Sandra was Bettino Craxi's lover, then leader of the PSI. She said of him: «He was very shy but sexually I was crazy about him. Bettino was intelligent, cultured, curious but also of a shyness that few knew. I was initially conquered more by his offspring than his physique. He also talked to me in bed, during love. And I, sexually, was crazy about him». The story lasted about a couple of years «in secret», in the mid-eighties. Then it ended because Sandra Milo feared the jealousy of her husband, Ottavio De Lollis, particularly jealous and manly.
The last "platonic" relationship
The actress's last story was with Alessandro Rorato, a 53-year-old Venetian entrepreneur. Their love story began in 2019, when Rorato made his debut alongside the actress at the Venice Film Festival. Since then, they have often been seen together, fueling rumors about their relationship. Rorato, owner of a restaurant in Treviso, publicly declared his “crazy” love for Sandra Milo, despite his 37 years less. However, Milo distanced herself from Rorato and rejected the term “boyfriend”, defining their bond as “a platonic, physical and spiritual love”, without any kiss exchanged. Despite this turn in their relationship, the actress emphasized a deep closeness to Rorato, defining their bond as “forms of love wonderful, extraordinary, of complicity”.
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