Moana Pozzi lived a very intense and short life. At the age of 20, she became the absolute dominator of the porn industry in Italy, with her fame reaching the ends of the world.
She starred in more than 100 porn movies, became the fantasy of many men, shared her bed with celebrities such as Robert De Niro, attempted to enter the political arena, acquired an untold fortune and died at the age of 33, beaten from cancer.
In her grave she took with her a secret hidden for years. Her brother was her son. And everyone learned it from him, 12 years after her death.
Moana was born on April 27, 1961 in Genoa and her name means "ocean" in Hawaiian. She spent most of her childhood in Canada and Brazil as Alfredo's father worked as a nuclear physicist and had to travel a lot. At the age of 13 she returned to Italy where she completed her student years.
At the age of 18 she gave birth to a boy, Simone, who was raised by her parents and he was told that his mother was his sister. In 1980 the family moved to France, while Moana decided to stay alone in Rome. There she began her career as a model, in parallel with her studies in acting.
Her entry into showbiz had many temptations. And one of them was porn. She first starred in hardcore porn in 1981, changing her name, but soon caused a stir. Pozzi saw herself making headlines in newspapers and magazines as she took part in a children's TV show at the same time she entered the adult entertainment scene! Her beauty and ingenuity even won over the famous Italian director Federico Fellino, who made her his muse.
She first appeared in hard porn with her real name in 1986 and became the absolute queen of porn by ascending the throne that until then had Chiciolina, who entered the political scene.
Moana was beginning to understand the impact she had on the porn industry. The blonde beauty makes front pages in the magazines of the time and in each of her interviews she does not stop emphasizing how people want to see her: sexy, philosophical, smart, open-hearted, secular.
In 1991 she published her first book "The Philosophy of Moana" with details about her personal life that come to "burn" famous men of the show, and more. Inside the book there is a list of all the celebrities she hosted in her bed and a rating for their erotic performance.
The list includes names such as Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Roberto Benini, actor and director Massimo Troisi, footballers such as Paolo Roberto Falcao and Marco Tardelli, and writers such as Norte Cruz. The name of the then Italian Prime Minister Betino Craxi, who had also passed by her bed, was mentioned in the book as "the politician".
In 1992, he co-founded the Love Party with Chiciolina, whose manifesto called for the legalization of brothels and proposed the creation of "love parks" where couples could have sex without being disturbed. She also ran for mayor of Rome and may not have won the trust of the Italians, but she rose to fame and became the most talked about woman. And not only that. Cartoon designer Mario Weger made her his protagonist in the "Moanaland" cartoon!
Pozzi starred in about 100 porn movies, mostly in Italy but also in Los Angeles. It sold over one million videocassettes and made headlines in about 50 magazines. Her fortune skyrocketed to 26 million euros!
In the summer of 1994, at the age of 33, Moana Pozzi fell ill. He suffers from severe pain in the abdomen, everything he eats makes him vomit, he loses weight quickly. The diagnosis makes her lose the ground under her feet: liver cancer. The battle is short and the porn star is alive in Lyon on September 15, 1994.
The cause of her death had become the subject of controversy. Some said Pozzi was a KGB agent and died of poisoning from radioactive polonium, while others saw her husband Antonio Di Ciesco as her killer. Some even suggested that she had never died and that her death was a big lie so that she could live in peace, away from the limelight. In 2006, a television show published her death certificate citing cancer.
Then the big secret was revealed. Simone Pozzi publicly reveals that he is not Moana's brother, as he believed all his life, but her son. He had grown up with their grandparents as his parents in order for the family to avoid the scandal of an extramarital pregnancy. Moana's mother confirms the allegations.
According to Italian police, Moana's husband helped her die as she begged him to relieve her of the unbearable pain of cancer. "It was a decision we both made in complete calm; a right decision, there was no solution other than the one that would cost me the most," he told Il Messaggero.
Shortly before her death, Moana left most of her large fortune to university for cancer research.