Simonetta's Newsday Interview concerning the death hoax

[Stars...@gmail.com]

When the rumor about how Simonetta had died had gotten completely out
of control, she had to do an interview for Newsday. The problem is, I
can not find the article! Even going to their website and searching
ehr name I've come up with nothing. Does anyone have a copy of the
full article?

Someone said on imdb that it also had a recent picture of her (with
short blond hair.) Does anyone have this picture saved anywhere?

[Lilit]

Starsee...@gmail.com wrote:
> When the rumor about how Simonetta had died had gotten completely out
> of control, she had to do an interview for Newsday. The problem is, I
> can not find the article! Even going to their website and searching
> ehr name I've come up with nothing. Does anyone have a copy of the
> full article?
>

>here is the article

"I am alive, I am happy and I have many good things in my life," said
Stefanelli, now 52, during a phone interview from Rome last Tuesday.

Now a designer of handbags and shoes, Stefanelli feels the false
stories about her death, which have been carried on sites such as
Wikipedia and Find A Grave, have cost her business.

"I lost [clients] because ... many people don't call me," she said.

The false reports faced by Stefanelli, which haven't stopped even with
the help of a lawyer in Italy, are examples of how false news can
persist on the Internet. In one case John Seigenthaler Sr., an
assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, said he labored for
weeks to find out who crafted a fake biography on Wikipedia which
stated he was believed at one point to have been involved in the
assassinations of both John and Robert Kennedy. A man in Tennessee
reportedly came forward and admitted penning the bogus biography.

Stefanelli's career blossomed after "The Godfather." She appeared in
more than two dozen films, including some with her actor-director
husband Michele Placido, from whom Stefanelli said she is separated.
She also posed for Playboy in 1974.

Stefanelli said it was her son Brenno who first noticed an Internet
posting that reported she died in July 2006. Thinking the boy was
joking, Stefanelli said her first instinct was to chastise him. "Why
would you say such a joke?," she remembered telling her son.

"'No, really,'" was Brenno's reply as he showed her the Internet
posting, Stefanelli said.

Stefanelli remembered getting calls from friends, some in tears, who
thought she was dead. After getting a recent condolence message from a
Newsday report, Stefanelli's daughter, actress Violante Placido,
replied on October 9 that her mother was alive.

"I have seen her mother two days ago and she is doing very well," said
Placido's agent Daniela Di Santo in an e-mail message last Wednesday.

While it is hard to get bad information off the Internet, some sites
like Wikipedia can be easily self-corrected, said Peter Levine, an
information expert at the University of Maryland who is an advocate
for funding by government and institutions of reliable Web portals.
Stefanelli said her lawyer, Rosanna Grillo, has asked without success
for information about the source of postings. Grillo couldn't be
reached for comment yesterday.

Stefanelli said she hasn't gone to the Italian media about the
problem, fearing more unpleasant publicity. But she decided to talk to
Newsday because she recently opened a boutique on Rome's Via Chiana,
called Simo Bloom, and wants people to know she is alive.

If a film project came along she might take it, Stefanelli said.

"But after my death, I don't know," she laughed.

[Lilit]

On Jun 1, 1:47 am, Starsee...@gmail.com wrote:
> When the rumor about how Simonetta had died had gotten completely out
> of control, she had to do an interview for Newsday. The problem is, I
> can not find the article! Even going to their website and searching
> ehr name I've come up with nothing. Does anyone have a copy of the
> full article?
>

here is the full article!

[Stars...@gmail.com]

Thank you very much for posting the article!
Even the Newsday site has taken it down and put it into archive (which
you have to pay to see the full article).