Moana Pozzi

About Moana Pozzi

Moana Pozzi was an Italian pornographic actress, television personality and politician.

Moana was born in Genoa, Italy, the daughter of Alfredo Pozzi, a nuclear engineer and Rosanna, a housewife.

Her name, Moana, is a Polynesian name meaning "ocean".

In her youth, Moana lived for periods of time in Canada and Brazil, due to the nature of her father's work requiring him to travel.

By the time she was thirteen years old, the family had returned to their native Italy, where she finished school.

In 1979, a few weeks before her 18th birthday, she gave birth to her only child, a son named Simone, who was raised by her parents and told that his mother was his older sister.

The family moved to France in 1980 and Moana, then 19 years old, decided to stay in Rome.

In Rome, she started working as a model and studied acting.

Sometimes she performed in television advertisements or as a walk-on in comedy movies.

In 1981, she performed in her first hardcore movie "Valentina, ragazza in calore", credited as Linda Heveret.

A minor scandal ensued since, at the same time the movie was in theatres, she was still working on a children's television programme "Tip Tap Club" .

She denied being the same person, but was suspended from television anyway.

This gave Pozzi her first popularity in newspapers and magazines.

In 1985, Federico Fellini wanted her to perform in his movie "Ginger and Fred".

Moana performed in about 100 porn movies, mostly in Italy, but also some in Los Angeles with Gerard Damiano as director.

She sold about 1 million videotapes.

She was on the covers of 50 major magazines, not including pictorials in porn magazines.

She was reportedly worth more than lire 50 billion (1990 prices), about 26 million euro.

In 1994, Moana fell ill, unable to eat without vomiting, and losing weight.

She took time off from work to travel with her husband Antonio Di Ciesco to India and then to France.

She died in Lyon, France, on 15 September 1994, at the age of 33, reportedly of liver cancer.

Her younger sister, Maria aka Baby Pozzi was herself also a pornographic actress.