Gina Lollobrigida, 79, Marrying 45-Year-Old

Gina Lollobrigida, who was hot back in the 1940s, is marrying a guy young enough to be her son.

Gina Lollobrigida, once dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” after the title of one of her movies, is getting married to a man 34 years her junior.

“We wanted for this to happen sooner, but it just wasn’t possible,” Lollobrigida, 79, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Thursday, without elaborating. Lollobrigida said she met her husband to be, Javier Rigau y Rafols of Barcelona, Spain, at a party in Monte Carlo and the two have been dating for 22 years.

The diva, who in Italy is affectionately nicknamed “La Lollo,” told Spain’s Hola’ magazine, which first reported her wedding plans, that “I have always had a weakness for younger men because they are generous and have no complexes.”

The two will get married in New York before the end of the year, Lollobrigida told the AP in a telephone interview from her house in Rome. It will be her second wedding. She was divorced in 1971 from Yugoslavian-born doctor Milko Skofic.

I don’t know what’s weirder, that a 45-year-old man would marry a 79-year-old woman or that a 23-year-old man would start dating a 57-year-old woman and keep at it for 22 years. Either way, it creeps me out.

And, yes, famous old men marry young hotties sometimes. But that’s at least explainable by biology.

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Gina Lollobrigida, 79, Marrying 45-Year-Old

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