Pia Zadora

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Pia Zadora (born Pia Alfreda Schipani, May 4, 1953) is an American actress and singer.

She rose to national prominence in 1981 after appearing on Broadway, regional theater, and in the film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964). Zadora's film career in the 1980s stalled, but she shifted her attention to music.

Zadora has released several albums backed by a symphonic orchestra as a singer.

In 1984, she was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Early life

In Hoboken, New Jersey, Zadora Alfreda Schipani was born. Alphonse Schipani, an Italian-American violinist, and her mother, Saturnina Schipani (née Zadorowski), was a Polish-American theatrical wardrobe supervisor for Broadway productions, the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York City Opera.

She adapted a portion of her mother's maiden name as her stage name. In Midgie Purvis' Tallulah Bankhead, Zadora appeared as a child actor. In Fiddler on the Roof's Broadway production (1964–66), she appeared as the youngest sister (Bielke).

Personal life

Meshulam Riklis, a businessman from Zadora, married businessman Meshulam Riklis in 1977, when she was 23, and he was 54. Due to her links with Riklis and Sinatra, she was a marquee headliner at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas in the early 1970s. Zadora and Riklis purchased the Beverly Hills mansion Pickfair Manor in January 1988 from Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss for nearly US$7 million. While retaining the guest houses, the developers demolished the majority of the building, claiming that termites and time had made repairs difficult.

Pickfair, the mansion that had once been the shared home of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, had been torn down, and a new 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) mansion was constructed on the property. Pickfair was razed due to a gruesome apparition that appeared to her and her children when her husband was away on business in September 2012. The neo oil portrait of Zadora, which welcomed visitors, was ordered by Riklis.

Kady Zadora (born 1985) and Kristofer Barzie (born 1987). After Riklis purchased the station in Oxnard, California, Kady was named after Zadora's film character in Butterfly, which later inspired the call letters for station KADY-TV. It changed its call letters to KBEH after he divested himself of his company.

Zadora and Riklis divorced in 1993, but Zadora remained in the house until late 2005, or early 2006, when she sold it to Korean businessman Corry Hong for US$17,650,000.

Jonathan Kaufer, Zadora's second husband, was a writer-director. They were married from August 1995 to November 2001, with one child, Jordan Maxwell Kaufer. A defamation lawsuit brought by Kaufer against Zadora, which accused Zadora of sexually assaulting their son, was dismissed by the presiding judge because Zadora's remarks were protected speech.

Zadora has been married to Michael Jeffries, a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detective, since 2005 and resides in Summerlin, Nevada. After Zadora contacted the Las Vegas Police to report a stalking incident, Zadora and Jeffries met.

Following an altercation with her teenage son Jordan, Zadora was charged with domestic violence battery and coercion and prison, she was sentenced to prison and prisoned in June 2013 after a SWAT team surrounded her house. The presiding judge ordered Zadora, who admitted to drinking alcohol prior to the incident and reported the cause of the altercation, to "stay out of prison for a year," the presiding judge told him, "follow the alcohol guidelines, and perform the [an] alcohol analysis."

Zadora was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in September 2014 due to head and leg injury in a golf cart crash. She was back to work by December.

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Career

Girmar, a young Martian girl, appeared in 1964's Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, which is widely believed to be one of the worst films ever made.

Zadora's acting career made no headway until she met Meshulam Riklis, 30 years younger than she, while touring with a musical performance in 1972. On September 18, 1977, the couple married. Zadora had a breakthrough as the Dubonnet Girl in print and television advertisements for the apéritif wine, in which American distributor Riklis was a shareholder. In the 1982 film of James M. Cain's book Butterfly, Zadora appeared alongside Stacy Keach and Orson Welles, the plot for which involved father-daughter incest. Zadora's "It's Wrong for Me to Love You" was included in the musical score. During allegations that Riklis had bought the award with a publicity campaign that included Zadora's image on Sunset Boulevard billboards, an appearance in Playboy magazine, and encouraging Golden Globe voters, she received this year's Golden Globe Award as Best New Star of the Year. However, the bulk of commentators reacted angrily to Zadora's performance (for example, film critic Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote a piece entitled "spectacularly inept"), and she received the 1982 Razzies award for both Worst New Star and Worst Actress.

Zadora continued to appear in the 1982 film Fake-Out, also known as Nevada Heat, a woman in a prison B-movie comedy co-starring Telly Savalas and Desi Arnaz Jr. She appeared in the film version of Harold Robbins' book The Lonely Lady in 1983, portraying an aspiring screenwriter who finds success after being sexually assaulted. She was named the Worst Actress Award in 1983 for her appearance. Zadora was named Worst New Star of the Decade (1980–89) and nominated as Worst Actress of the 1980s by the Golden Raspberry Awards, owing to her multiplicity.

In 1985, Zadora appeared in the musical comedy Voyage of the Rock Aliens as the object of an extraterrestrial's affections. In addition to showcasing her comedic skills, the film showcased her musical abilities and featured half of her 1984 album Let's Dance Tonight. In 1988, she appeared as a beatnik in John Waters' film Hairspray, in which film critic Roger Ebert wrote, "If nothing else is worth the price of admission to this film, perhaps you will be perplexed by the possibility of Zadora reading from Allen Ginsberg's Howl."

In 2000, Zadora was nominated for Worst Actress of the Century at the 20th Golden Raspberry Awards, eventually losing to Madonna.

Despite the fact that Zadora's performances have sparked critical skepticism, she has had a greater chance as a singer. "The Clapping Song," Zadora's tribute to the Shirley Ellis film score in 1983, made it to the top 40, and she and Jermaine Jackson appeared together in "When the Rain Begins to Fall" from the movie Voyage of the Rock Aliens, one of the Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1985, she was nominated for the Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the album "Rock It Out," losing to Tina Turner's "Better Be Good to Me." In 1985, Zadora released Pia & Phil, an album of London Philharmonic Orchestra standards, and released a sequel-up album titled I Am What I Am in 1986.

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Zadora made a cameo appearance in the comedy Naked Gun 33+12: The Final Insult in 1994. During a parody of an Academy Awards musical number, Zadora performed the Steve Allen-penned "This Could be the Start of Something Big."

In 2020, Zadora's All or Nothing At All album based on American values, according to her website.

Zadora's 2011 debut with a cabaret show titled Pia Zadora: Back Again, Standing Tall. She appeared at the Eissey Campus Theatre in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and the Kaye Auditorium in Boca Raton in February. On June 8, she brought the show to The Rrazz Room in San Francisco, where it ran for five performances until June 12. On March 17, 2011, and the Great Gatsby Gala in San Francisco, Zadora attended the Rrazz Room's 3rd annual Rrazz Room Celebration and Benefit for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

In 2012, Zadora appeared with the Desert Symphony Orchestra at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, California, and appeared on the television show Celebrity Ghost Stories.

Zadora has hosted and performed Pia's Place at Las Vegas restaurant Piero's Italian Cuisine since 2013.

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