Walter Chiari: The Iconic Comedian and His Storied Love Life

A comedian who made history in the cinema of the '50s and '60s, but Walter Chiari also became known for his numerous flirts with women often ending up on the front pages of the magazines of the time. In a short time, he became the star of the "Dolce Vita" as well as the one who inspired the homonymous film by Federico Fellini, true, boasted, envied, and admired, that of the "life in the fast lane" that through the newspapers ended up transmitting the image of the charming rascal. Today at Domenica In, the actor is honored with his son Simone Annicchiarico. Let's discover all the women of Walter Chiari. Simone Annicchiarico at Domenica In, who is the son of Walter Chiari? Age, his father's drug problems, private life, where he lives, gossip about Belen and his career. Walter Chiari, the fame of a Latin Lover. Walter Chiari, stage name from the registry office Annicchiarico, had his moment of maximum gossip glory, when in 1956 he found himself filming La capannina in Hollywood alongside the charming American actress Ava Gardner, the two fell in love and got engaged. Another love that is among his most important, is the one with Lucia Bosè, with a formal engagement that lasted four years and breakup on the verge of marriage. Other important and talked-about flirts, he had with Elsa Martinelli, Anita Ekberg, Delia Scala, Mina, and other showgirls and actresses of the time and also Maria Gabriella di Savoia. He finally met Alida Chelli, daughter of the composer of soundtracks and orchestra conductor Carlo Rustichelli, and Italian actress and singer. She became known with her version of the song Sinnò me moro, which opens the film Un maledetto imbroglio. In 1966 he then met Walter Chiari, the couple married quite soon, in 1969, and the following year their only son, Simone Annicchiarico, was born. But the couple did not last long, the two remained together only until 1981. At that point, Alida then had a relationship with Count Riccardo Rocky Agusta, it did not have a particular follow-up, but then she became romantically involved with Pippo Baudo, and with him, she stayed for seven years. She then died in Rome after falling ill with cancer, in 2012, at the age of 69. Simone Annicchiarico remembers Walter Chiari: "My father called me three hours before he died, he was lively and full of projects. We still wonder what happened." The tormented loves. Even in the '70s, the decade in which Walter enters his 50s, his "illustrious" conquests and the attention of the scandalous newspapers do not subside. In fact, for several years, from 1979 to 1987, he was the companion of Patrizia Caselli, a beautiful showgirl, at the time very young. Another very important relationship for Walter was the one with the seductive Anna Maria Rizzoli, much more complex was instead the bond that united Walter to Valeria Fabrizi.