- Title: ITALY: MISS GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA SEPARATED FROM HUSBAND
- Date: 25th October 1966
- Summary: MISS LOLLOBRIGIDA AND MR SKOFIC ENTERING AND LEAVING COURT, SURROUNDED BY CROWDS. Initials AA/V/JH/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 9th November 1966 12:00
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- Location: LATINA, NEAR ROME, ITALY
- Country: Italy
- Reuters ID: LVA76OAZJ1PUL2DVP8R7ZCBLB4ZU
- Story Text: YESTERDAY (MONDAY) FILM ACTRESS GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA WAS LEGALLY SEPARATED FROM HER YUGOSLAV-BORN HUSBAND, MILKO SKOFIC. THE ITALIAN STAR AND HER FORMER MANAGER WERE MARRIED 17 YEARS AGO WHEN BOTH WERE UNKNOWN. YESTERDAY THEY SPENT AN HOUR IN A MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE AT LATINA, NOT FAR FROM ROME, FOR THE COMPULSORY RECONCILIATION ATTEMPT THAT MUST PRECEDE A SEPARATION UNDER ITALIAN LAW. DIVORCE IS NOT LEGAL IN ITALY.
AFTER THE SEPARATION DOCUMENTS WERE SIGNED, MISS LOLLOBRIGIDA, WEARING A BEIGE DRESS AND PEARL CORAL EARRINGS FORCED A WAY THROUGH A CROWD OF FANS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS TO HER CAR. SHE SAID LATER THAT THE MARRIAGE HAD BEEN FINISHED MANY YEARS AGO BUT THEY HAD NOT SEPARATED UNTIL NOW FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR SON WHO IS NINE YEARS OLD. THE SON, MILKO JUNIOR, IS TO SPEND THREE WEEKS IN THE SUMMER AND FOUR WEEKS IN THE WINTER WITH HIS FATHER, AND THE REST OF THE YEAR WITH HIS MOTHER. AS EACH OF THE PARENTS ARE FINANCIALLY SELF-SUPPORTING NO MAINTENANCE WILL BE PAID.
MISS LOLLOBRIGIDA, NOW 39 YEARS OLD WAS A LITTLE KNOWN STARLET AND BEAUTY QUEEN WHEN SHE MARRIED SKOFIC, THEN A PENNILESS YUGOSLAV REFUGEE. FOR MANY YEARS THE ITALIAN STAR WAS MANAGED BY HER HUSBAND, WHO IS NOW IN PUBLISHING.
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