Anita Ekberg lived in Italy until her death.
She is famous for her scene in Frederico Fellini’s classic, “La Dolce Vita” - where she gets wet in a black strapless dress in Trevi Fountain in Rome. Its one of the most iconic scenes in all of cinema.
She was a star in the 60s but faded from the limelight in the 1970s. Ekberg was reportedly penniless at the time of death in Rome.
Its kind of sad - she was a very beautiful woman in her youth was much sought after by men but life in the end wasn’t too kind to her. When she was 20 she deservedly won the Miss Sweden title in the land of her birth.
Ekberg will always be remembered as the symbol of the “sweet life” of post-war Italy in the 1960s. May she RIP.