The world of porn cries the genius of Riccardo Schicchi

He died of diabetes. Almost blind, after a final struggle of several months and accompanied by Eva Henger, his ex-wife, his companion of a lifetime, the mother of his two children, Riccardino, 17 years and Mercedes, 21, who now lives in England . Riccardo Schicchi has died yesterday afternoon at the hospital Fatebenefratelli St. Peter's in Rome, was sixty years old. He had been hit already this summer by the aggravation of diabetes mellitus which he suffered. On dialysis for years, was in a coma and then but could not recover. Until yesterday, when he was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Rome. Born in 1952 in Augusta in the province of Siracusa (Sicily), Riccardo Schicchi was an observer. He began his career as a photographer for “Epoca”, making reports from different parts of the world, including war zones. But in his life he looked especially the world of women. Starting at school "spying" and then find out, as he did with Moana Pozzi or Ilona Staller. And bringing success erotic drawing contours of women determined to become successful icons starting from the red light. Women discovered by Schicchi have followed to the end. It was a meeting with the hungarian model Ilona Staller to make a change in his life and career. Before the radio, with the transmission “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?” for the Radio Luna, in which he talked about sex and where the nickname Cicciolina was born. Then, with erotic pictures. Finally on TV, with the first topless broadcast live by Italian Television in the transmission “Was twice” (1978). With Ilona Staller, Schicchi founded in 1983 “Diva Futura”, a modeling agency of the world of eroticism. He was considered a director, but Schicchi talked about himself as an inventor and a communicator.

So, after a few videos and porn movies of success, he became interested in politics. The “List of the Sun” came to life in the '70s, then Riccardo Schicchi joined in the Radical Party with Marco Pannella. In the italian elections of 1987 Ilona Staller was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, the first in the world to access pornstars democratically elected to a national parliament. In 1990 he was among the founders of the Party of Love, which reached the quorum for the room but still had a good number of votes thanks to the leader Moana Pozzi. "It's been a father to me, I owe it all to Riccardo. For Italy pornography this is a great loss," said Rocco Siffredi reached in Hungary by a reporter of the daily "La Repubblica", "There was no one like him. I was born with him, with the agency Diva Futura. I was 20 when he chose me: I was the only man among all his women Cicciolina, Moana, Malù, accepted because he was a lover of beauty. " For Siffredi, "Schicchi has always done this job with passion, thinking about art. Course had smelled the business, was a genius of italian porn, but he worked with rapture." Siffredi tells the parable bitter, "sick for years, practically blind and legs crumbled, but always with a smile."

Schicchi liked to describe his life as an adventure full of risks. The world of pornography was piracy in Italy in the 70’s, there were risks, it was necessary to start production almost home, sometimes remain hidden. Schicchi wanted to change the contours of that world giving contours to women who created it. His work was not about actresses, but on scripts. The women who worked with him had a personality around which the film was created. Were accurate drawings, inventions, dreams studied, revolutionaries. Schicchi was the entrepreneurial mind behind the women who accompanied him. He is never too in sight, never too exposed. Until it ran on the pages of newspapers. About Riccardo Schicchi remain dreams and creations. The innocence erotic of Cicciolina, the fair elegance of Moana or the idea never made to create the perfect sex doll. But of Schicchi are also his women. Invented or less. That have always protected him, that were his eyes when he saw them more. As Eva Henger, stayed with him until the end.

And to remember Riccardo Schicchi there seems only right link in our "Porn Memories" one of his most famous films. It is "Mundial sex," hardcore comedy shots before the FIFA World Cup in 1990 that took place in Italy, with Cicciolina and Moana Pozzi the role of two special, so special envoys, that will do everything, absolutely everything, for the Italian team to win the World Cup. To watch it you just click the appropriate link to the right of our home page, under "Porn Memories"