Moana Pozzi

Moana Pozzi
Born	Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi 27 April 1961(1961-04-27) Genoa, Italy
Died	15 September 1994(1994-09-15) (aged 33) Lyon, France
Alias(es)	Moana, Linda Heveret, Margaux Jobert, Anna Maria Pozzi, Anna Moana Pozzi, Moanna, Moanna Pozzi
Spouse(s)	Antonio Di Ciesco (m. 1991-1994, Moana's death)
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Eye colour	green
Hair colour	Blond
Ethnicity	Italian
No. of adult films	88

Moana Pozzi (27 April 1961 – 15 September 1994), often called simply Moana, was an Italian pornographic actress, actress, television personality, model, politician and writer.

Early years

Pozzi was born Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi in Genoa, Liguria. Her parents chose her name from a geographic map of Hawaii: it means "where the sea is deepest". Her father Alfredo Pozzi was a nuclear engineer and he moved around the world with his family for work, and her mother Giovannina Alloisio was a housewife. As a teen, Moana lived with her family in Canada, then in Brazil. At 13 years old, in 1974, Moana moved back to Italy with her family, where she finished high school. When the family had to move again to Lyon, France, she decided to start living independently in Rome around 1980, when she was 19 years old.

In Rome, Pozzi started working as a model and studied acting. Sometimes she performed in TV commercials or as a walk-on in comedy movies. She was very ambitious, and in Rome she became the lover of many famous people. Her most famous secret lover was Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. Through his intervention, she got a job at Rai Television on a children's entertainment program. The same year (1981) she performed her first hardcore movie, Valentina, ragazza in calore (Valentina, Girl in Heat), without being credited. A minor scandal ensued since, at the same time the movie was in theatres, she was still working on children's TV. She denied being the same person, but she was suspended from TV anyway. This gave her her first popularity in newspapers and magazines. In 1985 Federico Fellini wanted her to perform in his movie Ginger and Fred.

Career

In 1986, Pozzi met Riccardo Schicchi, manager of Diva Futura, the agency of the most famous porn stars like Cicciolina. Her first A-movie in hard core was Fantastica Moana, where she used her real name for the first time. She also took part in the famous Curve Deliziose (Delicious Curves) next to Cicciolina others, the first live show in Italy where naked models would masturbate onstage. This caused scandal and accusations of outrageous obscenity. She became huge in the hardcore business and soon eclipsed the popularity of Cicciolina in Italy. (At the same time Cicciolina stopped doing porn to pursue a political career in Italian Parliament.) Pozzi's appearances on TV also caused scandal. In the show Matrjoska by Antonio Ricci, she used to appear on stage completely naked or just wrapped in a transparent plastic veil. Magazines and newspapers were more and more interested in her and she was often featured on covers. She was also appreciated for her distinctive intelligence, defying the cliché of the brainless pinup. She cultivated intellectuals, writers, and artists such as Mario Schifano or Dario Bellezza. This was the first time a porn-star became so popular in everyday life.

Early 1990s

Pozzi was conscious of her role in show business. In interviews she always spoke of what she wanted to be for public opinion: sexy, sophisticated, intelligent, open-minded, worldly.

In 1991, Pozzi published her first book Moana's Philosophy where she listed, with marks from 4 to 9.5, twenty famous celebrities who had been her lovers. The list included actors like Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi, soccer players like Paulo Roberto Falcão and Marco Tardelli, writers like Luciano De Crescenzo. The name of the most famous one, the actual prime minister Bettino Craxi, who was her lover in 1981, was hidden as "the politician".

In 1992, Pozzi co-founded, with Hungarian Cicciolina Ilona Staller, the Love Party of Italy, whose political program included legalization of brothels, better sex education and the creation of "love parks". No one was elected, but her popularity reached its pinnacle and the best Italian TV anchors wanted to interview her. Stylist Karl Lagerfeld wanted her on the catwalk in 1993. Moana Pozzi became so popular that she was a protagonist for an animated cartoon created by the famous Italian cartoonist Mario Verger, with herself co-directing. This film, entitled Moanaland (1994), aired frequently on Italian television in Blob, and in telecasts dedicated to the actress. Again Verger, by himself, dedicated to Moana Pozzi another cartoon, I Remember Moana, 1995, that gained praise by film critics Marco Giusti and Enrico Ghezzi, and was transmitted in Fuori Orario. It also won a Special Mention at the Erotic Film Festival in the USA.

Her sister Maria Tamiko "Mima" Pozzi became a porn actress, as well, with the stage name of Baby Pozzi.

Death

In the summer of 1994, Pozzi was ill, unable to eat without vomiting, and losing weight. She took time off and traveled to India with her husband Antonio Di Ciesco and then entered a clinic in Lyon, France. She died on 15 September 1994, at the age of 33. Most reports say that she died of liver cancer.^{[citation needed]}

On the 10th anniversary of her death (2004), new rumors resurfaced and the court of justice of Rome opened a new file to investigate.^{[citation needed]} In December 2005, the Italian TV show Chi l'ha visto? presented for the first time the official death certificate of a Lyon cemetery, recording the exact day of the actress's death. Interviews with the family finally confirmed the circumstances. Her husband Antonio di Ciesco was also interviewed for the first time in 1995. Also shown was the unmarked grave in the "Pozzi" burial plot in Lerma, near Alessandria in Piedmont, northern Italy.

Her brother Simone revealed in February 2006, on the same TV programme, that he was actually her son. Moana's mother confirmed this some time ago. He wrote a book telling his story, which was published in 2006. The book discusses Moana's personality, her differing relations with the other members of her family (especially with her sister Mima), and the course of her illness and death.^{[citation needed]}

On 2 April 2007, Pozzi's husband Antonio Di Ciesco told the newspaper "Il Messaggero" that during her final days, Moana had asked him to speed her death. He claims that he euthanized her by letting air enter her IV, causing an air embolism.^[1][2]

Success

Moana Pozzi performed in about 100 porn movies, mostly in Italy, but also some in Los Angeles with Gerard Damiano as director. She sold about 1 million videotapes. She was on the covers of 50 major magazines, not including pictorials in porn magazines. She was reportedly worth more than 50 billion 1990 Italian liras, about 40 million Euros. Some of her profits were donated posthumously to funding medical research on tumors.^[3]

The Italian movie Guardami ("Watch me") is based on her life.^{[citation needed]}

Notes

1. ^ http://www.ilmessaggero.it/view.php?data=20070402&ediz=01_NAZIONALE&npag=1&file=DELUC_20.xml&type=STANDARD
2. ^ http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2007/04_Aprile/02/eutanasia_pornostar_moana_pozzi.shtml
3. ^ Marco Giusti, Moana, cit.

References

• Moana Pozzi, La filosofia di Moana, Moana's Club Edizioni, Roma, 1991 (autoprodotto).
• Moana Pozzi, Il sesso secondo Moana, Edizioni Moana's Club Edizioni, Roma, 1992 (autoprodotto).
• Noa Bonetti, Un'amica di nome Moana. Confidenze a cuore aperto di un’indimenticabile star a luci rosse, Sperling & Kupfer Editori, Milano, 1994, ISBN 8820020610.
• Brunetto Fantauzzi, La pornoViva, il terribile segreto di Moana, Flash Edizioni, Roma 1995.
• Patrizia D'Agostino – Antoni Tentori – Alda Teodorani, Pornodive, Castelvecchi Editore, Roma, 1995.
• Andrea Di Quarto – Michele Giordano, Moana e le altre. Vent'anni di cinema porno in Italia, Gremese Editore, 1997, ISBN 8877420677.
• Tommaso Trini, Moana. Ultimo mito, Prearo Editore, Roma, 2003, ISBN 8873480322.
• Ermanno Krumm, Mimmo Rotella – Moana ultimo mito, Prearo Editore, Roma, 2003.
• Marco Giusti, Moana, Mondadori Editore, Milano, 2004, ISBN 8804533064.
• Brunetto Fantauzzi, E... viva Moana, giallo politico! Chi ha ucciso la pornodiva del potere, 2005.
• Francesca Parravicini, Moana, tutta la verità, Aliberti Editore, Reggio Emilia, 2006, ISBN 8874241348.
• Brunetto Fantauzzi, Moana. La spia nel letto del potere, Edizioni Nuove Srl, 2006.
• Brunetto Fantauzzi, Moana. Mistero per sempre, Edizioni Nuove Srl, 2007.

External links

• The original death register shown in a TV programme (Italian)
• Moana Pozzi Online Warning: contains explicit pornographic content
• Moana Pozzi at the Internet Movie Database
• Moana Pozzi at the Internet Adult Film Database
• Moana Pozzi at the Adult Film Database

Persondata
Name	Pozzi, Moana
Alternative names	Pozzi, Anna Moana Rosa; Heveret, Linda
Short description	Adult film actress
Date of birth	27 April 1961
Place of birth	Genoa, Italy
Date of death	15 September 1994
Place of death	Lyon, France