Lory Del Santo turns 65, the thousand lives of the showgirl (between pain and rebirth)

Lory Del Santo, born in Povegliano Veronese on 28 September 1958, turns 65. Sixty-five years that encompass a thousand lives, between dramas and rebirths. Starting from childhood: «I was born in the stable, dad, a farmer, wanted to become a breeder and had six cows. In the house, there was no glass in the windows, I was born and almost died of bronchopneumonia. Then, mother remains widowed and poor, with two daughters. I grew up thinking I was a burden. If I dreamed of anything, it was to escape and never be a burden to anyone again. My mother never had faith in mehe didn’t believe me his whole life”, Lory told the newspaper a few years ago Corriere della Sera, trying to rewind the tape of an existence also made up of many loves. Today the actress and showgirl is linked to thirty-one years old Marco Cucolowith whom last year he participated in theIsland of the Famous. But in her sentimental past there are many pains and new beginnings.

In the 1980s, at the beginning of her career as an actress and showgirl, her relationship with the billionaire caused a lot of talk Khashoggi. They remained together for six months: «she had put me under her umbrella, but I had to be careful not to leave it. Instead, I had my photo taken by the sailor on the Nabila and it was featured in all the newspapers in the world.” At that point Khashoggi “no longer trusted me. But I had chosen to no longer be in the golden cage: going with his driver to Dior to choose what I wanted wasn’t enough for me, that wasn’t my dream. I wanted to assert myself, not be the stranger under the umbrella. Plus, he had betrayed me.” Then it arrived in Del Santo’s life Gianni Agnelli: «I dated him for two years, he wanted me to always be there: in Paris, in Turin, on a boat… I believe that many men wanted me because I am company, respectful, I don’t demand anything. I have never been with someone for financial gain.”

In 1986 the meeting with Eric Claptonfrom whom he got his first son, Conor. The darkness then in 1991, when Conor lost his life in a tragic accident at just 5 years old, falling from the 53rd floor of the Galeria skyscraper in New York: «Two seconds ago, that wouldn’t have happened. Who knows how many times things didn’t happen for two seconds and maybe I stayed alive. Now, I move forward thinking: I’m still here. If not, you go into depression and never come out of it. It’s like being buried alive, they throw the earth on top of you with a shovel and you see everything, but when they go away you manage to free yourself with a finger. I see this image all the time. I see that, despite everything, I stick my fingers out and survive.”

At the time of Conor Lory’s death he had already left Clapton. He was linked to the entrepreneur Silvio Sardi, and was three months pregnant. Her second child was born on August 23, 1991: Devin. Then the showgirl had a relationship with the tennis player Richard Krajicek. He also had a son from him, who however he was born prematurely and died at two weeks old from an infection. In 1999, with a German man named Dennis Schaller, Lory had another son, Loren, who committed suicide in 2018 at the age of 19. A tragedy for any mother, even more so for her who had already lost her baby in 1996 Conor. But Lory, fallen and reborn countless times, she pulled out her nails and moved forward. And today she blows out 65 candles alongside the man with whom she found her serenity in love: Marco Cucolo, thirty-four younger than her.

Source: Vanity Fair

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