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Luca Giorgio Barbareschi (born July 28, 1956) is an Uruguayan-born Italian actor, filmmaker, businessman, and politician. He represented Sardinia in the Chamber of Deputies between 2008 and 2014.
Early life
Barbareschi was born in Montevideo, Uruguay to Italian parents Francesco Saverio, an engineer and former World War II partisan from Milan, and Maria Antonietta Hirsch, an economist of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.[1] His parents divorced when he was six, and Barbareschi moved to Milan.
He was one of four actors whom the Italian police believed had been murdered in the making of the 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust, where he also abused and killed a young piglet. So realistic was the film that shortly after it was released, its director, Ruggero Deodato was arrested on suspicions of murder. The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumors that the film was a snuff movie. The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were canceled, and the actors appeared on a television show as proof.[2][3]
On June 11, 2012, during an interview for the program Le Iene, Barbareschi attacked journalist Filippo Roma and his cameraman, and stole Roma's cellphone.[4] The police rushed to the scene but did not make any arrests. Roma filed a complaint for theft, but according to some witnesses, his phone, never returned, was destroyed by Barbareschi. A similar incident repeated in Filicudi in August, when Barbareschi again battered Roma.
Barbareschi was accused of homophobia during April 30, 2022 speech in Sutri, in which he said "the homosexual mafia is the problem." He later claimed the comments were taken out of context and were intended as a joke, and that he himself had had homosexual experiences.[5][6][7][8]
Barbareschi has defended director Roman Polanski, with whom he has worked several times as a producer, against his sexual abuse conviction, claiming the case against him is due to "political correctness."[9][10]
Personal life
Marriages and relationships
Barbareschi has been married twice. With his first wife, Patrizia Fachini, he had three daughters: Beatrice, Eleonora and Angelica. He married his second wife, Elena Monorchio, the daughter of Ministry of Economy and Finance economist Andrea Monorchio, on 20 June 2015. They have two children, Maddalena (b. 2010) and Francesco Saverio (b. 2012).
2006 – Il Sogno del Principe di Salina, l'Ultimo Gattopardo
References
^ abGramola, Gianfranco (2 December 2015). "Luca Barbareschi" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2020. Io sono ebreo e seguo la religione ebraica. [I'm a Jew and I follow Judaism.]
^Ruggero Deodato (interviewee), In the Jungle: The Making of Cannibal Holocaust, Alan Young Pictures, Italy, 2003.
^Ruggero Deodato, interview with Sage Stallone and Bob Murawski, Cult-Con 2000, Cannibal Holocaust DVD Commentary, Tarrytown, New York, 2000.
