Italian Actor-Politicians - Alessandra Mussolini (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alessandra Mussolini (born 30 December 1962) is an Italian politician, the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, and previously an actress and model. She is the leader and founder of the national conservative political party Social Action; From 2004 until 2008, Mussolini also served as Member of the European Parliament, and has since been a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament. Some of Mussolini's noted stances are in regards to social views on women's and children's rights and role within both the family unit and society in general. Alessandra Mussolini was born in Rome, the daughter of Romano Mussolini, the fourth son of the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, and Anna Maria Villani Scicolone (born 11 May 1938, Rome). The actress Sophia Loren is her maternal aunt. From 1976 to 1980 she went to high school at the American Overseas School of Rome. She graduated in 1986 from Universit di Rimini, where she got her Master of Arts in film management. She married customs police officer Mauro Floriani on 28 October 1989. Together they have three children, Caterina, Clarissa, and Romano the latter named after his grandfather. Later, the children have adopted their mother's surname, but she went through a complex legal process to allow them to do so. She has since campaigned for Italian law to be changed to allow all children to take their mother's last name if they wish so. Cover of her album Amore, released in 1982.Mussolini was taken under the wing of her aunt Sophia Loren for a while and started a career as an actress in the Italian language film industry during the 1970s. A Special Day (1977), in which she had a minor role as "Maria Luisa", won an American Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and w... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=159156