The very special treasure that will be auctioned by the Wannenes auction house in Genoa on May 28 and 29 is a watch with the inscription “To Gina with admiration”, which Gina Lollobrigida received as a gift from the former Cuban head of state Fidel Castro. A total of 410 items from the film singer, who died on January 16, 2023, will be offered at the auction, including furniture, jewelry and artwork.
Lollobrigida's stellar camera
The camera with which the artist Fidel Castro, the actor Paul Newman and the painter Salvatore Dali were photographed will also be sold at auction, as will the star on the “Walk of Fame” and the awards for the films “Bread, Love and Imagination” (1954) and “The Imperial Rose” (1962).
Lollobrigida's assets included, among other things, a magnificent villa on Via Appia Antica in Rome, an apartment in Monte Carlo, other real estate and expensive jewelry. The actress left her longtime collaborator Andrea Piazzolla a trust fund for her artwork and entrusted him with the mission of spreading her artwork around the world.
Piazzolla, 37, received half of the singer's fortune. The artist's only son, Andrea Milko Skovic, with whom Lollobrigida was in dispute, received the remainder. She bequeathed her collection of 100 Etruscan vases to the Italian state.
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