Ilona Staller

Ilona Staller aka Elena Anna Staller aka Cicciolinawas born on November 26, 1951 in Budapest, Hungary. After her biological father, Laszlo Staller, abandoned Ilona and her mother, she was raised by her stepfatherwho was a government official.Her mother worked as an obstetrician. Shewas raised with 3 of her siblings, a sister and two brothers.

In her autobiography, Staller stated that she was molested when she was 10 years old and was raped by a boyfriend when she was just 14.

Staller began her modeling career at age 13, working for the state-run Hungarian modeling agency ‘MTI’.

In 1964, Staller began modeling for ‘MTI’ in Hungary.

During the 1960s, she worked as a maid at ‘The Intercontinental Hotel’ in Budapest, where she spied on visiting American and other foreign diplomats for the Hungarian government. During this time, she was given the code name 'Ladybird'.At age 25, while working at the hotel, she met and married Salvatore Martini, an Italian national.

In 1969, she enrolled at the ‘University of Budapest’ to become an obstetrician but dropped out of school after one year. A year later, she competed in and won the ‘Miss Hungary’ beauty pageant.

Shethen moved to Italy and began working on a radio show called ‘Voulez-vouscoucher avec moi?’ for Radio Luna, adopting the moniker 'Cicciolina' for the first time, in 1973.

In 1975, she appeared in her first credited film role in the Italian film 'La Liceale'.Throughout the next year, she toured nightclubs in Italy.

Ilona Staller has starred in more than 50 adult films in a career lasting more than 30 years. She has used her popularity and notoriety to promote peace in the war plagued regions like Iraq.