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Ilona Staller

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Italian pop-disco music singer, born November 26, 1951 in Budapest, Hungary. Also an adult film hardcore model, dancer, contemporary art painter and a politician. After winning Miss Hungary 1971 beauty pageant, next year she based to Italy and in 1973 start to use her stage name Cicciolina on a local radio show. As a first ever show-business persona celebrity, she was a national representative in italian parliament (1987-1992). She started doing softcore films in 1975, and in 1983 she co-founded italian very first exclusively hardcore erotica film studio Diva Futura with photographer Riccardo Schicchi (her partner at the time, from 1974 to 1988), and artistically combined erotica with her music performances. Married to conceptual artist Jeff Koons from 1991 to 1994.