Loredana "Lory" Del Santo (born 28 September 1958) is an Italian television personality and actress,[1][verification needed] now retired.[not verified in body][inconsistent]
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Lory Del Santo | |
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Born | Loredana Del Santo (1958-09-28) 28 September 1958 (age 63)[1] Povegliano Veronese, Veneto, Italy[1] |
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Years active | 1975–present[inconsistent] |
Children | 3[citation needed] |
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Lory Del Santo was born Loredana Del Santo on 28 September 1958, in Povegliano Veronese,[1] a comune in the Province of Verona,[citation needed] in the Italian region Veneto.[1] She was the first daughter of young parents, father Antonio Dal Santo and mother Clorinda, an indigent family.[citation needed] Because of the poverty, Del Santo's actual place of birth was a stable.[citation needed] Her father died in a car accident when she was age 3, so she grew up with her mother and a younger sister.[citation needed] They first lived in the countryside[where?] and then moved to Verona.[citation needed]
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Del Santo began her exposure to entertainment at sixteen when she served as a valletta (assistant) in the 1975 edition of Festivalbar,[1] which took place for the first time, that year, at the Verona Arena.[2] (As of this date,[when?] that arena continues as the permanent venue for the final evening of the music festival, and for the most important live concerts.[citation needed][relevant?]) After graduating from high school,[when?] she left Verona for Rome and Milan alone (without her mother's consent), to attempt a career in film and fashion.[citation needed]
In that period,[when?] Del Santo worked as a model, fashion photographer, and entrepreneur,[not specific enough to verify] and studied acting.[where?][citation needed] She had her first film role,[clarification needed][when?][citation needed] and then by the late 1970s had taken part in 20 films over six years[citation needed]—directed, among others, by Dino Risi, Adriano Celentano, and Massimo Troisi.[citation needed] Some of these films were in the Commedia sexy all'italiana genre.[not specific enough to verify][citation needed] In 1980, Del Santo was the contestant and representative from the nation of Italy, at the Miss Universe competition.[3]
In the early-1980s Del Santo became popular thanks to her participation in successful TV shows such as Renzo Arbore's Tagli, ritagli e frattaglie (1981) and Antonio Ricci's Drive In (1983-1988).[1] In the second half of the 1980s, she set aside her career in the entertainment industry to devote herself to her private life.[citation needed]
In 1989 and 1990 she went on tour as the protagonist for a theatrical show alongside Walter Chiari.[citation needed] In the Autumn of 1991 she was requested for another theatre tour, but gave up for personal reasons.[citation needed]
Del Santo was a focus of gossip columns in UK mainly for her relationship with Eric Clapton (who dedicated the song "Lady of Verona" to her)[4] and for the death of their son, Conor Loren. While he was still married to Pattie Boyd, Clapton embarked on a relationship with the twenty-seven year old Del Santo and fathered Conor, who was born on 21 August 1986.[citation needed] Conor died on 20 March 1991, at the age of four and a half, when he fell out of an open window on the 53rd floor of a Manhattan apartment building, the Galleria. The window, which was about 4 ft by 6 ft tall, had been opened by a building cleaner. The tragedy took place in the middle of an about 20-day stay in New York by Lory and Conor, who was looked after also by a babysitter.[5][full citation needed] The death of their son was the inspiration for Clapton's songs, "Tears in Heaven", "Circus" and "My Father's Eyes".[citation needed]
After a long absence, she returned to television in 2005, participating in the third season of L'isola dei famosi.[citation needed] During this show, she received such high approval from the public that it aroused the interest of even the hardest detractors of this television genre;[editorializing] in the last episode she received 75% of the votes.[citation needed] In years following, she took part in others Italian reality shows, TV shows, and radio broadcasts.[citation needed]
In 2006 a publishing house asked her to write an autobiography, but she had stated that she doesn't appreciate biographies and autobiographies,[where?] so she found a compromise and wrote a particular book that she calls an "autobiography of my thoughts", with the title Piacere è una sfida; neither Eric Clapton nor their son are mentioned in it,[6] being very personal matters.[according to whom?] During her entire career, she has chosen never to be accompanied by an agent or other specific figures, preferring total self-determination.[editorializing][citation needed]
The Italian singer Zucchero wrote in his autobiography about how Lory Del Santo had the idea to introduce him to Clapton, inviting the Italian singer for dinner with the couple. From this meeting, an artistic collaboration and a long friendship between the two musicians was born.[7][full citation needed]
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In her book, Del Santo states that she had an affair with George Harrison in December 1991 in Hiroshima, shortly after the death of her (and Clapton's) son. She has two other children, Devin and Loren, whom she raised alone as a single mother.[6] Since the first moments of notoriety in 1981, she has always declared herself against the bond of marriage, and she has never married.[8][full citation needed]
Her son, Loren Del Santo, took his own life in 2018 at just 19 years old, after having long suffered from a psychiatric illness called anhedonia, a disease that prevents those affected from experiencing pleasure, feelings or emotions of any kind. For years he had lived in the United States, in Miami, where he studied at Miami Beach High School. Born in 1999, Loren was the youngest of her children.[9][full citation needed][permanent dead link]
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Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1977 | Ecco noi per esempio | Girl at disco | Cameo appearance |
1978 | Where Are You Going on Holiday? | Luisa | Segment: "Sarò tutta per te" |
1978 | Geppo il folle | Student | Cameo appearance |
1979 | Dear Father | Party guest | Cameo appearance |
1979 | Gardenia | Laura | |
1979 | Where Can You Go Without the Little Vice? | Irma | |
1979 | Pensione amore servizio completo | Lucy | |
1979 | Saturday, Sunday and Friday | Baby | Segment: "Saturday" |
1979 | The Great Alligator River | Jane | |
1979 | The Finzi Detective Agency | Pierpaola Moser | |
1979 | A Dangerous Toy | Girl at restaurant | Cameo appearance |
1980 | I'm Photogenic | Loredana | |
1980 | Desideria: La vita interiore | Naisse | |
1980 | Sunday Lovers | Lory | Segment: "Armando's Notebook" |
1981 | L'onorevole con l'amante sotto il letto | Waitress | |
1981 | Bollenti spiriti | Lilly | |
1982 | W la foca | Andrea | |
1982 | La gorilla | Ruby | |
1983 | "FF.SS." - Cioè: "...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?" | Herself | Cameo appearance |
1985 | La donna giusta | Woman in Rome | Cameo appearance |
2006 | Vita Smeralda | Herself | Cameo appearance |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1975 | Festivalbar 1975 | Herself - Co-host | Annual music festival |
1980 | Miss Universe 1980 | Herself - Contestant | Annual beauty contest |
1981 | Tagli, ritagli e frattaglie | Herself - Co-host | Variety show |
1982 | Morto Troisi, viva Troisi! | Herself | Television film |
1983–1988 | Drive In | Various characters | Main cast |
2000–2001, 2008 | Ciao Darwin | Herself - Team member | Game show (seasons 3, 5) |
2005 | L'Isola dei Famosi | Herself - Contestant | Reality show (season 3) – Winner |
2006 | Saturday Night Live from Milano | Herself - Guest host | Variety show (season 1) |
2009 | La Fattoria | Herself - Contestant | Reality show (season 4) |
2010–2011 | Missione seduzione | Herself - Host | Reality show, also creator |
2014–present | Pomeriggio Cinque | Herself - Recurring guest | Talk show (seasons 7–present) |
2016 | Pechino Express | Herself - Contestant | Reality show (season 5) |
2017–2021 | Domenica Live | Herself - Recurring guest | Talk show (seasons 6–9) |
2018 | Grande Fratello VIP | Herself - Contestant | Reality show (season 3) |
2022 | Back to School | Herself - Contestant | Reality show (season 1) |
2022 | L'Isola dei Famosi | Herself - Contestant | Reality show (season 16) |
Year | Title | Notes |
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2013 | The Night Club - Osare per credere | Short film |
2014–2017 | The Lady | Web series (also creator, screenwriter and producer) |
Loredana Del Santo, detta Lory, nasce il 28 settembre del 1958 a Povegliano Veronese, in Veneto... Nel 1975, ad appena sedici anni, debutta come valletta al "Festivalbar".
Per la prima volta, l’evento si svolge all’Arena di Verona... .
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