26 Facts About Ilona Staller

Ilona Staller appeared in numerous films and gained attention for being the first to bare her breasts on live Italian television in 1978.

Ilona Staller ventured into politics and was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987, campaigning on a libertarian platform with the Radical Party.

Ilona Staller had a brief marriage to American artist Jeff Koons, with whom she had a son.

Ilona Staller was born in Budapest during the era of the Hungarian People's Republic.

Ilona Staller was raised by her mother, who was a midwife, and her stepfather, who was an official in the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior.

Ilona Staller's stepfather forced her to marry him to avoid embarrassment.

Ilona Staller appeared in several films from 1970 but made her debut under her own name in 1975 with La liceale, where she played alongside Gloria Guida as her lesbian classmate.

In 1978, during the RAI show C'era due Volte, Ilona Staller's breasts were the first to be bared live on Italian TV.

Ilona Staller produced the film together with Schicchi's company, Diva Futura.

Ilona Staller's memoirs were published as Confessioni erotiche di Cicciolina by Olympia Press of Milan in 1987.

The only person who talked to Ilona Staller was Natalia Correia.

Ilona Staller has appeared nude in Playboy editions in several countries.

Ilona Staller appeared in the US edition in September 1990, and in Hungary, Serbia, and Mexico.

In 2008, Ilona Staller participated as a contestant on the Argentine version of Strictly Come Dancing called Bailando por un Sueno.

In 1979, Ilona Staller was presented as a female candidate to the Italian Parliament by the Lista del Sole, Italy's first Green party.

Ilona Staller was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987, with approximately 20,000 votes.

Ilona Staller was not re-elected at the end of her term in 1991.

In 1991, Ilona Staller was among the founders of another Italian political movement, called Love Party, which was spearheaded by friend and fellow porn star Moana Pozzi.

Ilona Staller has recorded several songs, mostly from live performances, with explicit lyrics being sung to a children's melody.

In 1992, they had a son but separated the following year, partly because Ilona Staller refused to stop making porn.

In violation of a United States court order, as Koons had custody of their son, Ilona Staller left the United States for Italy, taking their then-two-year-old son.

In 2008, Ilona Staller filed suit against Koons for failing to pay child support.

In 2024, Ilona Staller said that she has reported her son to the police for drug abuse several times.

Ilona Staller is an accomplished chess player, having learned from her father while growing up in Hungary.

The 1991 Machines of Loving Grace album paid tribute to Ilona Staller and named a song after her.

Chilean punk band Los Peores de Chile released a song titled "Chicholina" in 1994, which had heavy TV and radio airplay, receiving critical acclaim by the national music press at the time, in live shows, the band says Ilona Staller is a God.