Ornella Muti

Muti was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a world wide poll of readers of the magazine Class.
See also:. Muti has three children: an oldest daughter, Naike Rivelli, who is also an actress; and a son, Andrea, and daughter, Carolina, from her marriage to Facchinetti. Foujita said that with Kiki, they buried forever the glorious days of Montparnasse. She is separated from Facchinetti and has been living with Stefano Piccolo since 1998. When she died, a huge crowd of artists and fans attended her funeral. Muti has been married twice; to Alessio Orano (1975-1981) and Federico Facchinetti (1988-?). Even during difficult times, she maintained her positive attitude saying, "All I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of red (wine); and I will always find somebody to offer me that.".

She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV ad of Giovanni Panzani pasta. Her drawings and paintings comprised portraits and dreamy landscapes composed in a light, slightly uneven expressionist style that was very much a reflection of her own easy-going manner and boundless optimism. Other American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon a Crime... (1992). A capable painter in her own right, a sold-out exhibition of Kiki's own paintings was held in Paris' Galerie au Sacre du Printemps in 1927. She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her American film debut in 1980 in Flash Gordon. She has a Daylily named after her: Kiki De Montparnasse. Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La Moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife). Long after her time, Kiki remains the embodiment of the outspokenness, audacity, and creativity that marked this period of Montparnasse.

She has a twin sister Claudia. Finally, in 1996, her book was translated and published. She was born as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neopolitan father and Estonian mother, on March 9, 1955 in Rome, Italy. Kiki's Memoirs remained barred in the United States as late as the 1970s when it was still held in the section for banned books in the New York Public Library. Ornella Muti is an Italian actress. This book was published the following year in New York City by Black Manikin Press but it was banned by the United States government. Ernest Hemingway and Tsuguharu Foujita provided the introduction for her 1929 memoirs.

She was the mistress of Man Ray, and a friend of Chaim Soutine, Jean Cocteau, Max Ernst and other artists. She also had a role in nine different motion pictures, including Fernand Leger's famous Ballet mécanique. The symbol of bohemian and creative Paris, at age 28 she was declared "Queen of Montparnasse." Her music hall performances, in black hose and garters, included crowd-pleasing raunchy songs, which somehow were both uninhibited yet inoffensive. Her partnership with Man Ray produced some of Surrealism's most significant images.

Alice Prin became one of the most famous artists' models ever, the most notable of which is a colection of photographs by Man Ray and the portrait of her painted by Moise Kisling titled Nu assis. At age 12 she was sent to Paris to be educated and by age 14 she was posing nude for sculptors. An illegitimate child, she was raised in abject poverty by her grandmother. Born in Chatillon-sur-Seine, Côte d'Or, Burgundy, France on October 2, 1901.

Kiki, was the stage name for Alice Ernestine Prin (1901 - 1953), a nightclub singer, actress, model, and painter. Kiki: Reine de la Montparnasse - Lou Mollgaard (In French - 1988). Kiki's Memoirs (translation by Samuel Putnam) - Kiki (1996).