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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Moana Pozzi
In the summer of 1994, Pozzi suddenly started feeling sick, unable to eat without vomiting, and increasingly losing weight. She took time off and traveled to India with her secret husband Antonio Di Ciesco. She returned looking very ill and entered a clinic in Lyon, France, just out of Italy and its attendant publicity, but near her family. She died suddenly on 15 September 1994, at the age of 33. Most reports say that she died of liver cancer; some tabloid reports claim that she died of AIDS, but that rumor was ultimately unsubstantiated. News of her death broke on 17 September 1994. (It is unusual for a person to die suddenly of liver cancer: usually a person has suffered for years from cirrhosis of the liver, after decades of alcoholism; or thepatient has sufered a bout of hepatitis B or C and then suffered for months with the cancer. It is possible that Pozzi had contracted hepatitis via her varied sexual contacts, but she was not known to be an alcoholic. Only her family and some close colleagues knew about her illness, and on TV she was still shown healthy and smiling in programs recorded before the end of the summer. No funeral ceremony took place and no obituary was published.
Rumours about her still living in the USA or in India began circulating immediately. Her family's silence gave more impulse to that. Her death in a foreign country also made it harder to check the death certificate.
On the 10th anniversary of her death (2004), new rumors about her sudden disappearance resurfaced. The court of justice of Rome opened a new file to find out whether she was alive or dead. In December 2005, the Italian TV show Chi l'ha visto? presented for the first time the official death certificate of a Lyon cemetery, recording the exact day of the actress's death. Interviews with the family finally confirmed the circumstances. Her husband Antonio di Ciesco was also interviewed for the first time in 1995. Also shown was the unmarked grave in the "Pozzi" burial plot in Lerma, near Alessandria in Piedmont, northern Italy.
Her brother Simone, whom she was especially close to, revealed in February 2006 on the same TV programme that he was actually her son and not her brother. Moana's mother confirmed this some time ago. He wrote a book (in Italian) telling his story, which was published in 2006. The book reveals for the first time Moana's personality, her differing relations with the other members of her family (especially with her sister Mima), and the course of her illness and death.
On 2 April 2007, Pozzi's husband Antonio Di Ciesco told the newspaper "Il Messaggero" that during her final days, Moana had asked him to speed her death. He claims that he euthanized her by letting air enter her IV, causing an air embolism. |