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Moana Pozzi, whose complete name was Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi was born April 27, 1961 in Genoa, Italy and died September 15, 1994 in Lyon , France. She was with Cicciolina the most famous Italian erotic actress. She is sometimes credited in the earliest films as Linda Heveret. She was 1.85 m tall and her breast was a natural 5th size (no surgery). Her skin was as white as milk, she used to avoid tanning since teen age.

Biography

The early years

Her parents chose her name watching a geographic map of Hawaii: it means "where the sea is deeper". Her father was a nuclear engineer and he used to move for work around the world with the family. As a teen, Moana lived with the family in Canada, then in Brazil. Maybe this brush with more open-minded societies, compared to Italy, changed her attitude about sex. Especially Brazil may have turned the Catholic raised Moana into something more connected with a sense of joy, liberty and fun. At 13 years old Moana moved back to Italy with the family, where she finished high school. When the family had to move again to Lyon, France, she decided to start living independently in Rome around 1980.

Independent life in Rome

In Rome, she started working as a model and she studied at an actoring school. Sometimes she performed in TV commercials or as a walk-on in comedy movies. She was very ambitious and in Rome she became the lover of many famous people. Her most famous secret lover was Bettino Craxi, the Italian Prime Minister from 1983 to 1987. Through him, she got a job at Rai Television on a children entertaiment program. The same year (1981) she performed her first hardcore movie Valentina, ragazza in calore (Valentina, girl in heat), but she was not credited. There was a scandal because at the same time the movie was in theatres, she was still working on children's TV. She denied being the same person, but she was anyway suspended from TV. This gave her a first popularity on newspapers and magazines. In 1985 Federico Fellini wanted her to perform in his movie Ginger and Fred. But Moana also realized that the way to success was too long for her ambition: by acting as walk-on it had took years and years to become popular and since she could not wait what she needed was a shortcut.

A key for a sudden popularity: Porn & intelligence

1986 was the year of changes: she met Riccardo Schicchi, the clever manager of Diva Futura, the agency of the most famous porn stars like Cicciolina. Her first A-movie in hard core is Fantastica Moana, where she used her real name for the first time. She also took part to the famous Curve Deliziose (Delitious curves) next to Cicciolina and 2 others, the first live show in Italy where naked models used to masturbate on the stage: a great scandal with problems with law (accused of outragious obsenity) but also a great triumph with theatres full every night. Her success was huge in the hardcore business and soon she eclipsed the popularity of Cicciolina in Italy (at the same time Cicciolina stopped doing porn for a political career in the Italian Parliament). Year by year, movie by movie Moana's popularity increased and it was a new thing that this popularity came out of the hardcore branch and it arrived to television and magazines as well. Every time she went on TV it used to be a public scandal. In Matrjoska by Antonio Ricci she used to come on stage completely naked or just wrapped in a transparent plastic veil. Magazines and newspapers were more and more interested in her and she used to be often on the covers. The oddness of her character was that she was not only beautiful and sexy, but she also spoke as an intelligent woman. In the interviews she could always come out as a real thinking woman, not just a brainless pinup. She beacome friend of intellectuals, writers and artists, such as Mario Schifano or Dario Bellezza. She gradually achieved the respect of families and children, never hiding her real work. This was the first time a porn-star could become so popular in every day life and she was the first showing that porn does not always involves shame and repent.

Construction of a definite successful character, the early '90s

Moana was conscious of her role in the show business, and through all the interviews she spoke of what she wanted to be for the public opinion: sexy, sophisticated, intelligent, open-minded, worldly. In 1991 she published her first book Moana's philosophy where she listed with marks from 4 to 9,5 twenty famous celebrities who had been lovers of hers. Among those: actors like Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi, soccer players like Paulo Roberto Falcao and Marco Tardelli, writers like Luciano De Crescenzo. The name of the most famous one, the actual prime minister Bettino Craxi, who was her lover in 1981, was hidden as "the politician".

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