{{short description|Hungarian-Italian former pornographic actress, politician, and singer (born 1951)}} {{western name order|Staller Ilona}} {{redirect|Cicciolina|the song by Erika Vikman|Cicciolina (song)}} {{BLP sources|date=August 2023}} {{use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Ilona Staller | image = Ilona Staller, 2009 (cropped).jpg | caption = Staller in 2009 | term_start = 2 July 1987 | term_end = 22 April 1992 | predecessor = | successor = | constituency = Lazio | party = Radical Party (1987–1989)<br />Love Party (1991–1992) | office = Member of the Chamber of Deputies | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1951|11|26}} | birth_place = Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Salvatore Martini|1971|1972|reason=div}} * {{marriage|Jeff Koons|1991|1994|reason=div}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1583034/Porn-star-La-Cicciolina-sues-ex-husband-Jeff-Koons-for-child-support.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |title=Porn star La Cicciolina sues ex-husband Jeff Koons for child support |first=Tom |last=Leonard |date=27 March 2008 |access-date=5 May 2010}}</ref> }} |children = Ludwig Koons (son) | height = {{convert|5|ft|6|in|cm|abbr=on|order=flip}} | weight = | occupation = {{hlist|Pornographic actress|politician|singer}} | blank1 = Other names | data1 = Cicciolina | website = {{URL|http://www.cicciolinaonline.it/}} {{in lang|it}} }} '''Ilona Anna Staller''' (born 26 November 1951), known by her stage name '''Cicciolina''', is a Hungarian-Italian former porn star, politician, and singer. Staller gained fame in the early 1970s through her radio show ''Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?'' and became widely recognized by her stage name Cicciolina. She appeared in numerous films and gained attention for being the first to bare her breasts on live Italian television in 1978. Staller ventured into politics and was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987, campaigning on a libertarian platform with the Radical Party.
Throughout her career, Staller made provocative offers, such as offering to have sex with Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Vladimir Putin in exchange for peace. Staller also had a brief marriage to American artist Jeff Koons, with whom she had a son.
==Early life== Staller was born in Budapest during the era of the Hungarian People's Republic. Her father, László Staller,<ref>{{cite web |last=Hubert |first=Klaudia |date=29 June 2009 |title=Cicciolina: 14 évesen élveztem először. Soha nem látott fotó!<!--Cicciolina: I enjoyed it my first time at 14--> |url=http://www.borsonline.hu/news.php?op&hid=21935 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320155851/http://www.borsonline.hu/news.php?op&hid=21935 |archive-date=20 March 2012 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Bors |language=hu}}</ref> left the family when she was 3.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Montesano |first=Anna |date=30 December 2022 |title=Ilona Staller: 'La mia Infanzia è stata difficile'/ 'Mio padre è andato via che avevo 3 anni, mamma…' |url=https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/ilona-staller-la-mia-infanzia-e-stata-difficile-mio-padre-e-andato-via-che-avevo-3-anni-mamma/2464758/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Il Sussidiario |language=it}}</ref> She was raised by her mother, who was a midwife, and her stepfather, who was an official in the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 May 2021 |title=Cicciolina, chi è Ilona Staller, età, dove e quando è nata, marito Jeff Koons, figlio, vita privata e politica |url=https://www.blitzquotidiano.it/?p=3306026 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Blitz Quotidiano |language=it }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=25 February 2024 |title=Ilona Staller Cicciolina: nazionalità, altezza, vita privata e dove vive e perché si chiama così? |url=https://www.tag24.it/992582-ilona-staller-cicciolina-nazionalita-altezza-vita-privata-e-dove-vive-e-perche-si-chiama-cosi/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Tag24 |language=it}}</ref> In 1964, at age 12, she began working as a model for the Hungarian news agency Magyar Távirati Iroda. In her memoirs and in a 1999 TV interview, she claimed that she had provided the Hungarian authorities with information on American diplomats staying at a Budapest luxury hotel where she worked as a maid in the 1960s.<ref name="Belfast Telegraph 2008">{{cite web|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/exporn-star-la-cicciolina-and-the-divorce-from-hell-13880504.html|url-status=dead|title=Ex-porn star La Cicciolina and the divorce from hell|website=Belfast Telegraph|date=29 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080730030109/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/exporn-star-la-cicciolina-and-the-divorce-from-hell-13880504.html|archive-date=30 July 2008|access-date=31 March 2024}}</ref>
During her hotel work when she was 20, Staller met a 25-year-old Italian national named Salvatore Mercuri, whom she later married.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blikk.hu/sztarvilag/cicciolina-hozzamegy-egy-25-evvel-fiatalabb-ugyvedhez/0by9gep |title=Cicciolina hozzámegy egy 25 évvel fiatalabb ügyvédhez |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=27 October 2009 |website=Blikk |language=hu|access-date=31 March 2024}}</ref> Initially, she had accepted the marriage proposal, but she changed her mind before the wedding and threw the ring on the snow. Staller's stepfather forced her to marry him to avoid embarrassment. During the ceremony, the priest reportedly noticed that Staller was the saddest bride he had ever met. The couple lived in Milan, near the Central Station, in modest conditions. Her work as a model allowed her to divorce after a year of marriage.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 February 2024 |title=Ilona Staller Cicciolina, chi è il primo marito e perché lei e Riccardo Schicchi si sono lasciati? |url=https://www.tag24.it/992606-ilona-staller-cicciolina-chi-e-il-primo-marito-e-perche-lei-e-riccardo-schicchi-si-sono-lasciati/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Tag24 |language=it}}</ref>
==Pornography and show business== Naturalized through marriage and settled in Italy, Staller met pornographer Riccardo Schicchi in the early 1970s. Starting in 1973, she gained fame with her radio show called ''Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?'' on Radio Luna. For that program, she adopted the name Cicciolina,<ref name="Belfast Telegraph 2008"/> and she referred to her male fanbase and later the male members of the Italian Parliament as ''{{lang|it|cicciolini}}'' ("little tubby boys").<ref name="IMOW 2008 =">{{cite web |date=2008 |title=Cicciolina's Sexual Politics |url=http://www.imow.org/wpp/stories/viewStory?storyId=1205 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527065638/http://www.imow.org/wpp/stories/viewStory?storyId=1205 |archive-date=27 May 2008 |access-date=31 March 2024 |publisher=International Museum of Women}}</ref>
[[File:L'ingenua.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Staller in the 1975 film ''L'ingenua'']] Staller appeared in several films from 1970 but made her debut under her own name in 1975 with ''La liceale'' (also known as ''The Teasers''), where she played alongside Gloria Guida as her lesbian classmate. In 1978, during the RAI show ''C'era due Volte'', Staller's breasts were the first to be bared live on Italian TV.<ref name="Belfast Telegraph 2008"/> In 1983, she appeared in her first hardcore pornographic film, ''Telefono rosso'' (''Red Telephone'').<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210330/|title=Cicciolina in Telefono Rosso|publisher=IMDb}}</ref> Staller produced the film together with Schicchi's company, Diva Futura. Her memoirs were published as ''Confessioni erotiche di Cicciolina'' (''Erotic Confessions of Cicciolina'') by Olympia Press of Milan in 1987. That same year, she appeared in ''{{Interlanguage link|Carne bollente|it}}'', titled ''The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empress'' in the United States, co-starring John Holmes. The film caused controversy when it was later revealed that Holmes had tested positive for HIV prior to appearing in it.<ref>{{cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Holden |date=12 January 2001 |title=Film Review; One Actor's Particular, Um, Talent |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=940CE0DF1F3AF931A25752C0A9679C8B63 |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
In 1987, invited by the Portuguese magazine ''Tal & Qual'', Staller visited the Assembly of the Republic and posed topless, leading to the suspension of the session and official complaints from members of CDS – People's Party. The only person who talked to Staller was Natália Correia.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 November 1987 |title=Visita de Cicciolina à Assembleia da República |url=https://arquivos.rtp.pt/conteudos/visita-de-cicciolina-a-assembleia-da-republica/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Rádio e Televisão de Portugal |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=19 November 1987 |title=Cicciolina na Assembleia da República |url=https://arquivos.rtp.pt/conteudos/cicciolina-na-assembleia-da-republica-2/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Rádio e Televisão de Portugal |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=19 November 1987 |title=Cicciolina na Assembleia da República |url=https://arquivos.rtp.pt/conteudos/cicciolina-na-assembleia-da-republica/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Rádio e Televisão de Portugal |language=pt}}</ref> Staller has appeared nude in ''Playboy'' editions in several countries. Her first ''Playboy'' appearance was in Argentina in March 1988. She also appeared in the U.S. edition in September 1990, and in Hungary (June 2005), Serbia (July 2005), and Mexico (September 2005).
In the early-'90s, Staller appeared in several porn scenes of Italian hardcore films with Rocco Siffredi, when he was a young rising porn star. Them both were together in movies like ''"Le perversioni degli angeli"'' in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126607/|title=Cicciolina & Rocco Siffredi in Le perversioni degli angeli|publisher=IMDb}}</ref>
In 1994, Staller appeared in the sci-fi film ''Replikator''. In 1996, she had a role in the Brazilian soap opera ''{{Interlanguage link|Xica da Silva (TV series){{!}}Xica da Silva|pt|3=Xica da Silva (telenovela)}}'' as Princess Ludovica di Castelgandolfo di Genova.<ref>{{IMDb name|id=0580499|name=Ilona Staller|section=bio}}</ref> In 2008, Staller participated as a contestant on the Argentine version of ''Strictly Come Dancing'' called ''Bailando por un Sueño''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 March 2008 |title=Cicciolina participará en la nueva edición de 'Bailando por un sueño' |url=https://www.lacapital.com.ar/zoom/cicciolina-participaraacute-la-nueva-edicioacuten-bailando-un-suentildeo-n257142.html |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=La Capital |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=23 April 2008 |title=Cicciolina abandona 'Bailando por un sueño' al romperse las costillas |url=https://www.lavozdigital.es/cadiz/20080424/gente/cicciolina-abandona-bailando-sueno-20080424.html |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=La Voz Digital |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=10 May 2016 |title=Bailando por un sueño: las presencias internacionales que pasaron por la pista |url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/television/bailando-por-un-sueno-las-presencias-internacionales-que-pasaron-por-la-pista-nid1895906/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=La Nación |language=es}}</ref>
==Political life== In 1979, Staller was presented as a female candidate to the Italian Parliament by the Lista del Sole, Italy's first Green party. In 1985, she switched to the Radical Party, campaigning on a libertarian platform against nuclear energy and NATO membership, as well as for human rights. She was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987, with approximately 20,000 votes. While in office and before the outset of the Gulf War, she offered to have sex with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in return for peace in the region.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1992/02/28/pop-artist-says-marriage-to-ex-porn-queen-is-over/|url-status=live|title=Pop Artist Says Marriage To Ex-porn Queen Is Over|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828232053/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-02-28/news/9202280604_1_cicciolina-artist-jeff-koons-married |archive-date=28 August 2017|website=Orlando Sentinel|date=28 February 1992|access-date=31 March 2024 }}</ref> She was not re-elected at the end of her term in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ghosh |first=Palash |date=27 February 2013 |title=A Star Is Porn: Whatever Became Of Italy's Cicciolina? |url=http://www.ibtimes.com/star-porn-whatever-became-italys-cicciolina-1104912 |access-date=4 June 2015 |website=International Business Times}}</ref>
thumb|upright=1.2|Staller at a protest in Rome, 1989 In 1991, Staller was among the founders of another Italian political movement, called Love Party, which was spearheaded by friend and fellow porn star Moana Pozzi. In January 2002, she began exploring the possibility of campaigning in Hungary, her country of birth, to represent Budapest's industrial Kőbánya district in the Hungarian Parliament; however, she failed to collect enough petition signatures for a non-partisan candidacy. In the same year, she ran in the local elections in Monza, Lombardy, promising to convert a prominent building into a gambling casino but was not elected. In 2004, she announced plans to run for mayor of Milan with a similar promise. She renewed her offer to have sex with Saddam Hussein in October 2002, when Iraq was resisting international pressure to allow inspections for weapons of mass destruction,<ref name="IMOW 2008 =" /> and she made the same offer to Osama bin Laden in April 2006.<ref>{{cite web |last1=<!--Desk--> |date=April 2006 |title=Sex for peace |url=http://www.beirutbeltway.com/beirutbeltway/2006/04/sex_for_peace.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061026165834/http://www.beirutbeltway.com/beirutbeltway/2006/04/sex_for_peace.html |archive-date=26 October 2006 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=From Beirut to the Beltway}}</ref>
In September 2011, it was revealed that Staller was eligible for and would be receiving a yearly pension of €39,000 from the Italian state as a result of her five years in the country's parliament.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 September 2011 |title=Protest over Italian pornstar MP Cicciolina's pension |url=https://theweek.com/people-news/2069/protest-over-italian-pornstar-mp-cicciolina%E2%80%99s-pension |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=The Week}}{{dead link|date=April 2024}}</ref> Reacting to the controversy raised by the news, Staller, who started receiving the pension in November 2011, when she turned 60, stated: "I earned it and I'm proud of it."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hooper |first=John |date=19 September 2011 |title=Italy row over ex-porn star's pension rights |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/19/italy-cicciolina-porn-star-pension-rights |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In 2012, Staller founded the Democracy, Nature, Love party. Its objectives included the legalization of same-sex marriage,<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 November 2012 |title=Cicciolina si ricandida: ecco Dna (foto) |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/politica/2012/11/09/news/cicciolina_si_ricandida_al_parlamento_con_il_suo_partito_d_n_a_democrazia_natura_amore_e_punta_sui_matrimoni_gay-5119536/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=HuffPost Italia |language=it}}</ref> the reopening of former brothels,<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 September 2012 |title=Cicciolina lancia il nuovo partito? Natura e amore? |url=https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2012/09/28/fotogalleria/cicciolina-lancia-il-nuovo-partito-natura-e-amore-1.36381738 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=La Stampa |language=it}}</ref> a guaranteed minimum wage for young people, improvements to the judiciary,<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 November 2012 |title=Natura e amore Cicciolina lancia il nuovo partito |url=https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2012/11/08/fotogalleria/natura-e-amore-cicciolina-lancia-il-nuovo-partito-1.36358397 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=La Stampa |language=it}}</ref> and the elimination of the privileges of the rich political caste.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 May 2012 |title=Il ritorno di Cicciolina 'anti casta' |url=https://www.ilsecoloxix.it/italia/2012/05/08/news/il-ritorno-di-cicciolina-anti-casta-1.32610034 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Il Secolo XIX |language=it}}</ref> On a proposal by blogger Luca Bagatin, who said that Staller was "a friend I had always respected and was intrigued by the idea of relaunching the secular area with a 'radical' and 'far-left' program",<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 April 2013 |title=Ilona Staller a Roma i Parchi dell'Amore |url=https://www.romadailynews.it/politica/ilona-staller-a-roma-i-parchi-dellamore-0151463/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=RomaDailyNews |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bagatin |first=Luca |date=12 October 2015 |title=Quando mi candidai alle Amministrative di Roma con la Staller e contro Marino e Alemanno |url=https://www.pensalibero.it/quando-mi-candidai-alle-amministrative-di-roma-con-la-staller-e-contro-marino-e-alemanno/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Pensalibero.it |language=it}}</ref> Staller was the unsuccessful candidate, in the 2013 Rome municipal election in Rome held on 26 and 27 May 2013,<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 April 2013 |title=Cicciolina ci riprova col Campidoglio (foto) |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/politica/2013/04/10/news/ilona_staller_candidata_al_campidoglio_cicciolina_ha_firmato_la_tessera_del_partito_liberale-6345596/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=HuffPost Italia |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=11 April 2013 |title=Cicciolina candidata alle elezioni di Roma: 'Programma libertario e antiproibizionista' |url=https://www.romatoday.it/politica/elezioni/comunali-roma-2013/cicciolina-candidata-elezioni-roma-pli.html |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=RomaToday |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=12 April 2013 |title=Riecco Cicciolina Ilona Staller si candida a Roma |url=https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2013/04/12/fotogalleria/riecco-cicciolina-ilona-staller-si-candida-a-roma-1.36103309 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=La Stampa |language=it}}</ref> as part of the Republicans and Liberals list.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 April 2013 |title=Cicciolina candidata alle elezioni: in corsa per il Campidoglio con i liberali |url=https://www.romatoday.it/politica/elezioni/comunali-roma-2013/cicciolina-candidata-elezioni-roma.html |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=RomaToday |language=it}}</ref>
In 2020, Staller relaunched her Democracy, Nature, Love party and said that she had appealed a new law that reduced her parliamentary pension from €3,100 to €1,000.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 February 2020 |title=Ex-porn star Cicciolina founds new 'love' party |url=https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/02/12/ex-porn-star-cicciolina-founds-new-love-party_ed5b3242-067e-4876-b688-8645c01d66fb.html |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Agenzia ANSA |language=it}}</ref>
==Musical career== Staller has recorded several songs, mostly from live performances, with explicit lyrics being sung to a children's melody. Her most famous song is "{{Interlanguage link|Muscolo rosso|it}}", a song entirely dedicated to ''il cazzo'', which means "the dick" in Italian. Because of its extensive use of profanity, the song could not be released in Italy, but became a hit in other countries, especially in France. The song gained considerable popularity in the internet era, when many Italian speakers were able to hear it for the first time. Several unreleased songs were recorded during her RCA period and the Diva Futura agency period. Some of these unreleased songs were subsequently used during her TV shows and live performances or as soundtracks in her porn movies.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burrocacao |first=Demented |date=18 February 2019 |title=Cicciolina è una popstar, non solo una pornostar |url=https://www.vice.com/it/article/cicciolina-muscolo-rosso-album-storia/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Vice Italia |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=26 November 2023 |title=Le migliori canzoni di Ilona Staller |url=https://www.indiscreto.info/le-migliori-canzoni-di-ilona-staller/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Indiscreto |language=it}}</ref>
==Personal life== Staller was the muse of American artist Jeff Koons, who persuaded her to collaborate on a series of sculptures and photographs of them having sex in many positions, settings, and costumes, which were exhibited under the title ''Made in Heaven'' and made waves at the 1990 Venice Biennale. Staller married Koons in 1991.<ref>{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Jonathan |date=30 June 2009 |title=Not just the king of kitsch |url=http://u.tv/News/Not-just-the-king-of-kitsch/57aca175-4791-43dc-a925-104cdd01fd7b |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513121147/http://www.u.tv/News/Not-just-the-king-of-kitsch/57aca175-4791-43dc-a925-104cdd01fd7b |archive-date=13 May 2013 |access-date=31 March 2024}}</ref> In 1992, they had a son but separated the following year, partly because Staller refused to stop making porn. Their marriage ended in 1994. In violation of a United States court order, as Koons had custody of their child, Staller left the United States for Italy, taking their then-two-year-old son.<ref>{{cite web |last=Binlot |first=Ann |date=16 November 2011 |title=Jeff Koons Gets Under Your Skin With a New Kiehl's Moisturizer Line for Charity |url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/836804/news/story/750588/jeff-koons-gets-under-your-skin-with-a-new-kiehls-moisturizer-line-for-charity |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720200635/http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/836804/news/story/750588/jeff-koons-gets-under-your-skin-with-a-new-kiehls-moisturizer-line-for-charity |archive-date=20 July 2018 |access-date=7 March 2015 |work=Art+Auction}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Sischy |first=Ingrid |date=16 June 2014 |title=Jeff Koons Is Back! |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/07/jeff-koons-whitney-retropective |access-date=31 March 2024 |magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Duffy |first=Tammy |date=11 July 2014 |title=Jeff Koons: Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art NYC |url=http://www.trentonian.com/arts-and-entertainment/20140711/jeff-koons-retrospective-at-the-whitney-museum-of-art-nyc |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=The Trentonian |postscript=. Updated on 19 August 2021.}}</ref> In 2008, Staller filed suit against Koons for failing to pay child support.<ref name="Belfast Telegraph 2008"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://xbiz.com/news/91852 |title=Cicciolina Sues Ex-Husband Koons for Child Support |access-date=27 March 2008 |last=Hunter|first= Tod |date=27 March 2008 |website=XBIZ}}</ref> In 2024, Staller said that she has reported her son to the police for drug abuse several times.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Marchetti |first=Simona |date=26 February 2024 |title=Ilona Staller: 'Ho denunciato mio figlio Ludwig per salvarlo dalla droga' |url=https://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/24_febbraio_26/ilona-staller-ho-denunciato-mio-figlio-ludwig-salvarlo-droga-18e0a6a0-d4a0-11ee-b451-40ff65ace0ae.shtml |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Corriere della Sera |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=26 February 2024 |title=Ilona Staller: 'Ho denunciato mio figlio Ludwig per salvarlo dalla droga' |url=https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/02/26/news/ilona_staller_figlio_ludwig_droga-422209275/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=La Repubblica |language=it}}</ref>
Staller is an accomplished chess player, having learned from her father while growing up in Hungary. In July 2021, it was announced she would demonstrate her ability in an exhibition match, taking on four top players simultaneously.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Kington |first1=Tom Kington |date=22 July 2021 |title=From adult films to pawn: Cicciolina is a chess queen |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/adult-films-pawn-cicciolina-chess-queen-vwwvx3stf |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=The Times}}</ref>
==In popular culture== In 1980, an erotic comics series, ''La Cicciolina'', was made by Lucio Filippucci and Giovanni Romanini, based on Staller.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006 |title=Lucio Filippucci |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/filippucci_lucio.htm |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Lambiek.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2006 |title=Giovanni Romanini |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/romanini_giovanni.htm |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Lambiek.net}}</ref> Italian metal band Bulldozer released the tracks "Ilona the Very Best" on their 1987 album IX and "Ilona Had Been Elected" on their 1988 album Neurodeliri in dedication to her.<ref>{{cite web |date=2023 |title=Bulldozer (2) – IX |url=https://www.discogs.com/de/master/126530-Bulldozer-IX |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Discogs}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2023 |title=Bulldozer (2) –Neurodeliri |url=https://www.discogs.com/de/master/307291-Bulldozer-Neurodeliri |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Discogs}}</ref> In 1994, Later in 2005, Japanese metal band Abigail released the compilation "Abigail Loves Ilona, as She Is the Very Best" featuring a photograph of Ilona as the album art, and includes several Bulldozer covers.<ref>{{cite web |date=2023 |title=Abigail (3) – Abigail Loves Ilona, As She Is The Very Best |url=https://www.discogs.com/de/release/5232868-Abigail-Abigail-Loves-Ilona-As-She-Is-The-Very-Best |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Discogs}}</ref>
Brazilian musician Fausto Fawcett wrote a song in tribute to Cicciolina, titled "Cicciolina (O Cio Eterno)", featured on his 1989 album ''Império dos Sentidos''. British band Pop Will Eat Itself released a song called "Touched by the Hand of Cicciolina" as an unofficial World Cup single in July 1990. The song reached number 28 on the UK Singles Chart.<ref>{{cite web |date=2023 |title=Touched Bt the hand of Cicciolina Chart Position |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/pop-will-eat-itself-touched-by-the-hand-of-cicciolina/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Official Charts}}</ref> The 1991 ''Machines of Loving Grace'' album paid tribute to Staller and named a song after her.<ref>{{cite web |date=2015 |title=Official singles chart results matching: Touched by the Hand of Cicciolina |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/touched%20by%20the%20hand%20of%20cicciolina/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725013951/http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/touched%20by%20the%20hand%20of%20cicciolina/ |archive-date=25 July 2015 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=UK Singles Chart}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Machines Of Loving Grace – Machines Of Loving Grace |url=https://www.discogs.com/Machines-Of-Loving-Grace-Machines-Of-Loving-Grace/master/34700 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Discogs}}</ref> Chilean punk band Los Peores de Chile released a song titled "Chicholina" in 1994, which had heavy TV and radio airplay, receiving critical acclaim by the national music press at the time, in live shows, the band says Ilona is a God.<ref>{{cite web |date=18 August 2021 |title=Los Peores de Chile |url=http://www.musicapopular.cl/grupo/los-peores-de-chile/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=MusicaPopular.cl |language=es}}</ref>
Finnish singer Erika Vikman released a song titled "Cicciolina" on 26 January 2020. It was selected as one of six entries that competed to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. The song finished in second place in the national selection.<ref>{{cite web |last=García |first=Belén |date=26 January 2020 |title=Finland: Listen to Erika Vikman's UMK 2020 entry 'Cicciolina' |url=https://www.esc-plus.com/finland-listen-to-erika-vikmans-umk-2020-entry-cicciolina/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=ESCplus |postscript=. Updated on 25 May 2023.}}</ref> In the 2020 Spanish television series ''Veneno'', Staller, played by Miriam Giovanelli, was portrayed attending to a party in Gran Canaria in 1996, where she met Spanish personality La Veneno. Also in 2020, electronic music duo Brutalismus 3000 released a song titled "Cicciolina", the first track of their album named ''Amore Hardcore''. In the song, they refer to Staller and her life. In 2023, Oska Wald from the band Chuckamuck released a song entitled "Pizza Amore", in which he refers to a fictional pizza called "Pizza Cicciolina".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Pizza Amore, by Oska Wald |url=https://bretford.bandcamp.com/track/pizza-amore |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Bretford}}</ref>
===Discography===
====LPs/CDs==== * 1979 ''Ilona Staller'' (RCA PL 31442) published at least in Italy and Colombia. The Colombian record has titles in Spanish. A music tape also exists. ** Track list: I Was Made for Dancin' / Pane Marmellata e Me / Labbra / Benihana / Lascia l'ultimo ballo per me / Cavallina Cavallo (by Ennio Morricone) / It's all up to you / Professor of Percussions / Più su sempre più su * 1987 ''Muscolo Rosso'' (Boy Records) published in Spain only. ** Track list: Russians / Inno (Come un angelo) / Satisfaction / Telefono rosso (Avec toi) / Black Sado / Goccioline (Bambole) / Perversion / Animal Rock / Nirvana / Muscolo rosso / Muscolo rosso (reprise) * 1988 ''Sonhos Eróticos'' printed in Brazil only. (All Disc 00.101.009, also music tape 00.107.009.) Reprint of the English long playing ''Erotic dreams'' plus two Cicciolina songs "Muscolo rosso" and "Avec toi". The other songs are performed by Erotic Dreams Band. Some of Cicciolina's speeches are used in "La prima volta" song. Cover is dedicated to Cicciolina. ** Track list: Muscolo rosso / Emmanuelle / Bilitis / Le réve / La prima volta / I feel love / Je t'aime... moi non plus / Histoire d'O / Les Femmes / Black Emmanuelle / Love to love you bay / Avec toi * 1994 ''Sonhos Eróticos'' (Brazil only, All Disc RQ 032) Reprint of 1988 LP with a new layout of the cover, with background from brown to pink and violet. * 2000 ''Ilona Staller'' (CD, in United Kingdom only, Sequel Records/Caste Music NEMCD398); reprint on CD of the 1979 LP, plus the two extended tracks of the red vinyl mix. * 2000 ''Ilona Staller'' (LP, in United Kingdom only, Sequel Record/Castle Music NEMLP398); white label promotional test pressings, less than 5, were made for a proposed but ultimately cancelled vinyl release of the CD reissue.
====7" disks==== * 1976 "Voulez vous coucher avec moi?" (Italy only, with neither serial number nor cover; on the vinyl it is written "Nuovo Playore 1° Radio Rete 4 D.R." only); from the same-named radio programme on Radio Luna station by Riccardo Schicchi where the nickname Cicciolina was born. * 1979 "I Was Made for Dancin'" / "Più su sempre su su" (Italy only, RCA PB 6323) * 1979 "Cavallina Cavallo" / "Più su sempre più su" (Japan only, RCA SS 3205) * 1980 "Buone Vacanze" / "Ti amo uomo" (Italy only, RCA BB 6449) * 1981 "Ska Skatenati" / "Disco Smack" (Italy only, LUPUS LUN 4917) * 1987 "Muscolo rosso" / "Avec toi" (SFC 17117–7) symbol of the Italian Radical Party on the cover. The record was published in France and limited in other European countries. * 1987 "Muscolo rosso" / "Russians" (Spain only, BOY-028-PRO) promo for journalist; no cover.
====12" mix and picture disks==== * 1979 "I Was Made for Dancin'" (extended version) / "Save the Last Dance for Me" (English original version of "Lascia l'ultimo ballo per me") (Italy only, RCA PD 6327, red vinyl mix without cover, promo for DJs). * 1987 "Muscolo Rosso" / "Russians" (Spain only, BOY-028) versions are not extended, the same as 7". * 1989 "San Francisco Dance" / "Living in my Paradise" / "My Sexy Shop" (Acv 5472) Picture disk; limited edition; published in Europe, together with her colleague Moana Pozzi's release.
====Collaborations==== * 1979 ''Dedicato al Mar Egeo'', LP soundtrack by Ennio Morricone published in Japan only; though she does not sing, she is portrayed naked on the inlay and back-cover. She recorded two songs from that album ("Cavallina a cavallo" and "Mar Egeo") later in the year. The LP exists in two versions, one with Japanese titles, the other with Italian titles. Also, a CD version exists. * 1979 ''Aquarium sounds'', LP of an Italian TV programme; she sings on the track "Elena Tip".
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==Bibliography== * {{cite book |last=Barbano|first=Nicolas |title=Verdens 25 hotteste pornostjerner |publisher=Rosinante |location=Denmark |year=1999 |isbn=87-7357-961-0}} Features a chapter on Cicciolina (in Danish). * {{cite book |last1=Filippucci |first1=Lucio |last2=Romanini|first2=Giovanni |title=Les aventures de Cicciolina |publisher=Média 1000 |location=FRance |year=1989}} Graphic novel about her life (in French). * {{cite book |last1=Schicchi|first1=Riccardo |author-link1=Riccardo Schicchi |last2=Staller|first2=Ilona|title=Cicciolina |publisher=Taschen|location=Cologne |year=1992 |isbn=3-8228-9761-2}} Large-format Italian, German, English, and French language album.
==External links== {{Portal|Pornography}} {{Commons category}} * {{Official website|https://cicciolinaonline.com//}} * {{IMDb name}} * {{IAFD name|name=Cicciolina}}
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