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CLAUDIA CARDINALE

Claudia Cardinale is a Tunisian-born Italian actress and former beauty model. She was born in 1938 at Tunis. As an actress she signed a contract which forbade her marrying, putting on weight or cutting her hair. As a result, when her illegitimate son was born in 1959 she told everyone that he was her baby brother, and didn't tell the child he was her son until he was 19 years old.
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