What happened to the actress who played the beautiful drug addict Titti, Commissioner Cattani’s mistress in the legendary TV series “Octopus”

Fans (and especially female fans!) were puzzled – how could a man of such exceptional moral qualities as Cattani, with a beautiful living wife, turn with some kind of spinning tail, a mafia mistress and even addicted to illegal substances?

Recall that the death of the mother of Rafaela (Titti), the Marchioness of Pecci-Shaloya, became one of the starting points of the plot of the series about the clash between the incorruptible police commissioner and the ubiquitous mafia. . Cattani met a young girl and formed a relationship with her, trying to rescue his beloved from the clutches of the mafia and the trap of addiction to hard drugs.

Viewers explained Corrado’s infidelity to his wife by the complex nature of his character. Someone said that was how Cattani showed his desire to protect Titti. Many shrugged – well, what do you want, because he is a man at heart! And the young aristocrat is a miracle just how – who could resist?

It can be said that it was on the example of Titti that Soviet citizens for the first time saw in detail what prohibited substances do to a person. A capriciously luxurious beauty, Pechchi-Shaloya transformed into a broken and torn creature. Despite Cattani’s best efforts, the girl’s life ended tragically. And the Commissar’s attempt to save Titty hurt his wife and daughter, and ultimately shattered the lives of them and Corrado himself.

On the screen, the difficult image of Rafaela Pecci-Shaloya was embodied by the Italian actress Barbara De Rossi, the daughter of a wine merchant from Rimini and a German. In the year of the European premiere of The Octopus, she turned 24, and in her native country Barbara was well known to the public and respected by her colleagues. She became famous at the age of 16, winning the Italian Miss Teen contest, and already at 20 she received her first awards as an actress.

Barbara has been married twice. Her first marriage to Andrea Vicci was short-lived, but in union with Balkan dancer Branko Tesanovic, De Rossi gave birth to his only daughter, Martina. Alas, this did not help the couple to stay together – in 2000, “Titty” divorced for the second time in order to have an affair with Antonio Manfredonio, a young man 21 years her junior. This connection was closely watched by the Italian tabloid press: Antonio beat and humiliated Barbara, who, as they said, underwent intensive rejuvenation just for him and even enlarged her breasts.

As a result, De Rossi broke up with her abuser lover (this was not without scandal and even the involvement of the police – alas, not Commissioner Cattani), and today she is engaged to the man of Simon Fratini business. He is only 9 years younger than her.

The performer of the role of Titti Pecci-Shaloya did not receive great world fame, but in her native Italy she remains a star of the first magnitude. She continues to act in films and perform on the theatrical stage, although she has not received such bright roles as in The Octopus for a long time. But the actress successfully took part in Dancing with the Stars, and also became the host of a TV show devoted to the investigation of criminal stories.

The Roman press closely follows Barbara De Rossi’s changes in appearance and fluctuations in her weight. Recently, the actress frankly declared that she suffered from hypermenorrhea all her life, a disease due to which her periods were always very painful and heavy. This affected both his personal life and Barbara’s work and, above all, high doses of hormones at one point caused De Rossi to gain a lot of weight, causing a wave of criticism in the press. Now she has regained her form, and fans are grateful to the actress for speaking openly about such a delicate subject, since many women suffer from hypermenorrhea and its consequences.