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Mariska Hargitay: "I've been living a lie"

Oh, just about her biological father.

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by Anonymousreply 164July 4, 2025 3:28 AM

How old is she now, 140?

by Anonymousreply 1May 17, 2025 9:32 PM

Non-paywall link

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by Anonymousreply 2May 17, 2025 9:38 PM

You want HOW MUCH FORINT for that paprika???

by Anonymousreply 3May 17, 2025 9:41 PM

Real Dad's IG is full-on Maga bs.

by Anonymousreply 4May 17, 2025 9:45 PM

Oleebia!

by Anonymousreply 5May 17, 2025 9:53 PM

Pisan.

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by Anonymousreply 6May 17, 2025 9:57 PM

If only she could embrace her dyke-itude as well

by Anonymousreply 7May 17, 2025 10:01 PM

[quote]Pisan.

Oh, dear!

by Anonymousreply 8May 17, 2025 10:02 PM

Mickey Hargitay was hot.

by Anonymousreply 9May 17, 2025 10:07 PM

[quote]But even after a starring role in the Broadway hit Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, its film adaptation, and several more big movies, Mansfield struggled to get anyone to see past her breasts.

Seriously, tho, did the piggish Mansfield have the biggest boobs ever to hit Hollywood? I mean, she’s halfway to deformed.

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by Anonymousreply 10May 17, 2025 10:08 PM

R8, I used that spelling because he was born in Brazil even though he is Italian. Nothing worse than a know-it-all Italian.

by Anonymousreply 11May 17, 2025 10:13 PM

Mansfield was just gross - an embarrassment.

by Anonymousreply 12May 17, 2025 10:32 PM

Eye-talian beauty Mariska Hargitay

by Anonymousreply 13May 17, 2025 10:35 PM

especially heinous!

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by Anonymousreply 14May 17, 2025 10:41 PM

Jayne was a whore, darlin’!

by Anonymousreply 15May 17, 2025 10:42 PM

I had no idea Jane Mansfield was her mother.

Huh.

by Anonymousreply 16May 17, 2025 10:43 PM

Just wait til you hear about Jon Voigt’s daughter, r16!

by Anonymousreply 17May 17, 2025 10:49 PM

She's beyond tiresome. Her father's been dead for 19 years. She's had ample time to break this story.

Same thing with her sexual abuse - she's been on SVU for 25 years - and just last year came forward with her sexual abuse story?

Feels like she's grasping for new things to keep her name in the headlines.

She lucked out on this weirdly popular show and that's it. There will be no more. Accept it and move along. Tired of this dripping of 'new' and 'shocking' information from her.

by Anonymousreply 18May 17, 2025 11:02 PM

She had pancake tits, r10.

by Anonymousreply 19May 17, 2025 11:14 PM

It's about time she broke her silence !!!!!

by Anonymousreply 20May 17, 2025 11:27 PM

How weird to think that anyone gives a shit who her biological father is

by Anonymousreply 21May 17, 2025 11:30 PM

[quote]How weird to think that anyone gives a shit who her biological father is

I find it of interest, r21, sue me.

by Anonymousreply 22May 17, 2025 11:37 PM

[quote]Feels like she's grasping for new things to keep her name in the headlines.

[quote]Tired of this dripping of 'new' and 'shocking' information from her.

One should let the work speak for itself!

by Anonymousreply 23May 17, 2025 11:40 PM

We get it, r18, you're *not* one of her fans.

by Anonymousreply 24May 17, 2025 11:44 PM

She looks great in OP’s post.

by Anonymousreply 25May 17, 2025 11:50 PM

The only thing truly shocking thing she could do is admit she’s a big lez….and name names. Otherwise, just let the aging SVU die and go count your money.

by Anonymousreply 26May 18, 2025 2:05 AM

She's staying with the show simply to annoy you, r26. It seems to be working.

by Anonymousreply 27May 18, 2025 2:09 AM

Does she count as a nepo baby? Her mother died when she was literally three years old and SVU is the only thing on her resume, and she didn't get the part until she was 35.

by Anonymousreply 28May 18, 2025 3:38 AM

Are we sure her father isn’t daddy LaVey?

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by Anonymousreply 29May 18, 2025 3:52 AM

[quote]She's beyond tiresome. Her father's been dead for 19 years. She's had ample time to break this story.

Did she know who her bio dad was back then?

When she won the Emmy in 20006, she thanked her father but didn't name him.

[quote]"But mostly I want to thank my father, because he is the reason that I am standing here today. I'm so proud to be your daughter, Dad. I can't wait to celebrate this with you."

I'm assuming she was talking about Mickey Hargitay, who died a couple of weeks after the ceremony.

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by Anonymousreply 30May 18, 2025 4:01 AM

[quote]R28 Does she count as a nepo baby? Her mother died when she was literally three years old and SVU is the only thing on her resume, and she didn't get the part until she was 35.

Yes, she’s a nepo baby. Her (supposed) dad Mickey Hargitay was a celebrity, as well. Her parentage opened doors, even if from just grim curiosity.

by Anonymousreply 31May 18, 2025 4:04 AM

Remember the TV biopic with Loni Anderson as Jayne and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mickey?

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by Anonymousreply 32May 18, 2025 4:10 AM

Isn't this really old news?

by Anonymousreply 33May 18, 2025 4:15 AM

[quote] Does she count as a nepo baby? Her mother died when she was literally three years old and SVU is the only thing on her resume, and she didn't get the part until she was 35.

Not true. She wasn’t a big name but had been a working actress for 15 years before getting SVU.

Yea she was talking about Hargitay R30. He was dying and had attended many of the award shows where she was nominated.

She saw her bio dad when she was 30 but didn’t warm up to him or her half sisters until later. Even after establishing a relationship with them it took her years to acknowledge that they were her sisters.

by Anonymousreply 34May 18, 2025 4:15 AM

[quote]Are we sure her father isn’t daddy LaVey?

I'm sure Mariska will let us know in a few years

by Anonymousreply 35May 18, 2025 4:33 AM

[quote] I used that spelling because he was born in Brazil even though he is Italian. Nothing worse than a know-it-all Italian.

Are you saying that "pisan" is the Portuguese spelling of "paisan?"

If so, show your work. If not, make it make sense.

by Anonymousreply 36May 18, 2025 4:44 AM

Why do people get some angry and bitter about "nepo" babies? What's the big fucking deal? Who CARES? Are they taking a job away from you?

As for nepos, they rise as far they can...mommy or daddy's name might get them in the door and even an opportunity or two, but if they suck, are a problem, or don't work hard at it, they don't tend to go very far.

In Mariska's case I doubt being the daughter of those two helped her at all. By the time she was starting her career, her mother had been dead for nearly 20 years. Her "father"'s sole claim to fame was being a hot body builder and married to a much bigger name. There was no "clout" for Mariska to take any advantage of.

by Anonymousreply 37May 18, 2025 7:49 AM

Liza Minnelli…. Mariska Sardelli….Liza Minnelli…. Mariska Sardelli…..

by Anonymousreply 38May 18, 2025 3:07 PM

We might all have been spared this if she had been sitting up in that car.

by Anonymousreply 39May 18, 2025 3:18 PM

"Not true. She wasn’t a big name but had been a working actress for 15 years before getting SVU."

Love her in the "Seinfeld" episode where she's auditioning for the role of Elaine in Jerry's show-within-a-show "about nothing."

by Anonymousreply 40May 18, 2025 3:25 PM

She’s basing this on a picture of him. She believed they look alike. No DNA test. She’s an idiot.

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by Anonymousreply 41May 18, 2025 3:39 PM

very nice pics of the subject

by Anonymousreply 42May 18, 2025 3:41 PM

R41 yikes, I just assumed this had been determined for fact if she's putting it out there like this. A very simple DNA test compared against Mickey's relatives could prove whether or not he was actually her dad. To assume based on that picture alone is fucking laughable. I don't even see a resemblance to be honest.

by Anonymousreply 43May 18, 2025 3:43 PM

[quote] In her 20s, someone showed Hargitay a photo of Sardelli. She immediately knew in her bones that he was her biological father. “It was like the floor fell out from underneath me,” she recalls in My Mom Jayne. “Like my infrastructure dissolved.” But when she confronted Mickey, he denied it. The encounter was so shattering that she swept the skeleton back under the family rug and never mentioned Sardelli to Mickey again. (Mickey died in 2006.)

She truly is a dingbat. There’s no proof that he’s her father. Sounds like she had borderline personality disorder. She can’t stop telling lies.

by Anonymousreply 44May 18, 2025 3:43 PM

Wasn’t her first regular job on Falcon Crest?

by Anonymousreply 45May 18, 2025 3:43 PM

Nelson Sardelli is still alive at age 90 and resides in Las Vegas.

I wonder what he has to say about all this?

by Anonymousreply 46May 18, 2025 3:59 PM

R18 there’s no paywall in the first place

by Anonymousreply 47May 18, 2025 4:04 PM

R46 if only there were a documentary premiering at Cannes you could find out.

by Anonymousreply 48May 18, 2025 4:05 PM

I don't find her particularly attractive. She has an odd hook nose.

How she nabbed that hottie I'll never understand.

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by Anonymousreply 49May 18, 2025 4:17 PM

Gentlemen, Photoshop is a girl's best friend.

by Anonymousreply 50May 18, 2025 4:20 PM

So wait...she doesn't have a dna test proving that Sardelli is her bio father and this entire story is based on vibes??

by Anonymousreply 51May 18, 2025 4:23 PM

Coming soon from Mariska: "I've been living a lie—Anton LaVey IS my father!"

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by Anonymousreply 52May 18, 2025 4:23 PM

Reading the entire article, we learn that Jayne Mansfield had separated from Hargisay before going back to him in the year before Mariska'a birth and my guess is that Mariska has done a little back-of- the-envelope math to figure out that she had to have been conceived during that separation

by Anonymousreply 53May 18, 2025 4:24 PM

Mariska has an olive complexion that looks very Italian to me. She has a lot of her mother's features, but their skin tones are quite different. Her bio dad being of Italian ancestry sort of makes sense.

by Anonymousreply 54May 18, 2025 4:34 PM

Please she looks like a sneering Hungarian peasant, dragging a cart full of cabbage to market.

by Anonymousreply 55May 18, 2025 4:52 PM

R55 as she aged she looked increasingly Hungarian - or so I assumed!

by Anonymousreply 56May 18, 2025 5:08 PM

R54 - I agree - always thought she looked somewhat Italian and a bit darker complected based on her parents.

She could have had a DNA test done with her brothers really easily to confirm it. Even back then.

I believe her but all of this, like her other stories, just sounds weird and a bit made-up (I saw a pic in my 20s and I said that's my father!)

by Anonymousreply 57May 18, 2025 5:18 PM

In fairness, the photo of her bio-father wasn’t some rando, it was of the guy who dated her mother a year before she was born.

by Anonymousreply 58May 18, 2025 5:21 PM

What??? This is absurd slander!!!

by Anonymousreply 59May 18, 2025 5:24 PM

Also, didn't her mother have an olive complexion?

by Anonymousreply 60May 18, 2025 9:04 PM

It's simple...pull her pants down. If she's Hung-arian, she's Mickey's kid.

by Anonymousreply 61May 18, 2025 10:28 PM

She was actually quite good in SVU for many seasons. It was a well done show. But around season 16 or so the whole program changed to being about Olivia and Olivia's kid and Olivia's life and Olivia and Olivia and Olivia. It's almost as if she might be something of a prima donna.

The other weird part of the show is that when it started, she was quite attractive. Her looks are long gone, but the scripts, which as executive producer she supervises, almost always discuss how beautiful she is. Now.

by Anonymousreply 62May 18, 2025 10:46 PM

R62 It's the Lucy Syndrome. In The Lucy Show and especially Here's Lucy, there were lots of comments and compliments about youthful Lucy. And, calling her a "girl" or young woman.

The woman was in her 40s for I Love Lucy, her 50s for The Lucy Show and 60s for Here's Lucy.

She stopped being a girl or young woman when FDR was president...first term.

by Anonymousreply 63May 18, 2025 10:50 PM

[quote]I believe her but all of this, like her other stories, just sounds weird and a bit made-up (I saw a pic in my 20s and I said that's my father!)

Reminds me of the GOLDEN GIRLS episode where Rose believes that Bob Hope is her father.

ROSE: Bob Hope is my father. Well, sort of. I mean, he could be, maybe. There's something I've never told you girls. I spent the first 8 years of my life at the St. Olaf Orphanage. I loved my adoptive parents so much, I really never think about it, but I sure did before I became their daughter. When I was at the orphanage, I used to daydream all the time that my real parents would knock on the door and take me away. So, like most of the kids there, I started fantasizing about who they might be. I had a particularly clear picture in my head of my father. Anyway, one day, they took us all to the movies, and when Bob Hope came on the screen, I stood up and yelled, "My God, that's my father! That's him!"

😂

by Anonymousreply 64May 18, 2025 11:36 PM

You insult me, pig! This is GOOD cabbage! Leave my stall NOW!

by Anonymousreply 65May 18, 2025 11:49 PM

Mariska Hargitay-Sardelli Hermann?

Let's stick with "Esther Blodgett." She ain't being hired for "The Munsters."

by Anonymousreply 66May 18, 2025 11:54 PM

Does anyone care or really think she was lying in the classic sense? If Mickey Hartigay raised her and was a father figure, most people wouldn't have a huge problem with Mariska considering him her father. The biodad seems more of an issue for her. Why would we care?

by Anonymousreply 67May 19, 2025 12:06 AM

As someone who fairly recently found out the real identity of his father (on the cusp of 50), daddy stuff goes deep, especially if there's a lack of certainty and people aren't telling you everything. The significance of your father's identity winds up taking on much more significance and can be hard to understand for people who have never had to give any thought to who their father was.

by Anonymousreply 68May 19, 2025 1:07 AM

She's way past the cusp of 50, R68.

by Anonymousreply 69May 19, 2025 1:14 AM

[quote]Why do people get some angry and bitter about "nepo" babies? What's the big fucking deal?

Because they're disgusting. A lot of ugly nepo kids have gotten jobs as models and they're UGLY.

Then there are the nepo actors who give out interviews about how hard they worked to get a role. The reality is that none of them would have gotten their foot in the door for an audition. And they don't understand that. They truly have no idea of how hard it is to break into acting.

People don't want to hear a bunch of nonsense from people who have had everything in their lives handed to them on a silver platter

by Anonymousreply 70May 19, 2025 6:31 AM

The Nepo actors seem to sink or swim. The parents can get them an agent and pay for classes, and if they have the power, cast them in their projects, but that’s the extent of it. If they don’t work on screen, if they have no skills and charisma, the audience aren’t interested. Take Michael Douglas - he was a star in his own right, his siblings weren’t.

The Nepo models - often short, with bad walks, and faces that are attractive but not in a strikingly model-like way - seem to hang around like bad smells.

by Anonymousreply 71May 19, 2025 9:27 PM

R37 = JLC, stroking her cock.

by Anonymousreply 72May 19, 2025 9:39 PM

[quote] Feels like she's grasping for new things to keep her name in the headlines.

She should get a creepy tattoo with her child.

by Anonymousreply 73May 19, 2025 9:41 PM

IMHO Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda and Liza Minnelli would've made it in show business no matter what, even if they'd been from Bumfucke Iowa. All three just had that X factor something that makes a person a star.

by Anonymousreply 74May 19, 2025 10:38 PM

^^ true

by Anonymousreply 75May 19, 2025 10:41 PM

Every time I hear anything about her it's always about her parents.

by Anonymousreply 76May 19, 2025 11:09 PM

This is probably the most pointless celebrity “reveal” I’ve ever read. This woman looks like Caitlyn Jenner except for the carefully posed photos in this article. And that is a terrible thing.

by Anonymousreply 77May 19, 2025 11:16 PM

You are so right R62! And she was supposed to be pregnant in Yours Mine and Ours. She really milked it out.

by Anonymousreply 78May 20, 2025 3:35 AM

It’s not that unusual.

Sean Astin had the same situation with celebrity parents. He’s turned out pretty normal if a bit highly strung, considering he’s a ex-child actor and has a family history of severe mental illness. Ditto Sarah Polley with her jobbing actor parents.

by Anonymousreply 79May 20, 2025 5:14 PM

[quote]Every time I hear anything about her it's always about her parents.

Tell me about it, r76.

by Anonymousreply 80May 20, 2025 6:20 PM

I watched one of Hargitay’s interviews about the documentary and she insufferable. Using her Olivia Benson boo hoo sad voice. Bitch please.

by Anonymousreply 81June 3, 2025 4:36 PM

New York Times rave.

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by Anonymousreply 82June 26, 2025 12:36 PM

Mariska interviewed by New York Times.

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by Anonymousreply 83June 26, 2025 12:38 PM

I've saved r82 the trouble of posting a non-paywall article.

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by Anonymousreply 84June 26, 2025 1:38 PM

And r83's link is non-paywall here....

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by Anonymousreply 85June 26, 2025 1:44 PM

I like her.

Peter is so handsome in person, it hurts.

by Anonymousreply 86June 26, 2025 2:11 PM

She was on the Today show this morning.

She looked like shit.

by Anonymousreply 87June 26, 2025 2:26 PM

I find her kind of scary looking.

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by Anonymousreply 88June 26, 2025 3:16 PM

She was tired Senior Lesbian.

She had worked the cabbage field since 3am then had to haul the cart full of cabbage to her stall for sale, all before appearing on camera.

It is not easy being a Hungarian peasant.

by Anonymousreply 89June 26, 2025 3:29 PM

She's actually not Hungarian, Mickey Hargitay was not her biological father, it was some Italian guy.

by Anonymousreply 90June 26, 2025 3:32 PM

She seems insufferable in that NYT interview.

by Anonymousreply 91June 26, 2025 5:34 PM

r91 = Diane Neal

by Anonymousreply 92June 26, 2025 7:52 PM

R90, she did no DNA test. She’s lying. Hargitay is her biological father. She’s borderline. She’s the same as a lying mother.

by Anonymousreply 93June 26, 2025 8:53 PM

[quote]So wait...she doesn't have a dna test proving that Sardelli is her bio father and this entire story is based on vibes??

Yep. She’s as crazy as her mother.

by Anonymousreply 94June 26, 2025 8:54 PM

And based on how she looks like him more than Mickey.

by Anonymousreply 95June 26, 2025 9:09 PM

She seems insufferable in that NYT interview.

R91 - I was ok with her until this paragraph.

Perhaps more than at any other moment in her life, Hargitay does feel unambiguously empowered, and free. Her attitude, she told me with gusto, is “I can’t wait to see what I do next.”

by Anonymousreply 96June 26, 2025 9:11 PM

He's my father!

SLAP!

He's my stepfather!

SLAP!

He's my fella!

SLLLLLAAAAAP!!!

He's my father and my stepfather ANNNNND my fella!!! (Collapses tearfully.)

by Anonymousreply 97June 26, 2025 9:28 PM

On the Today show.

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by Anonymousreply 98June 28, 2025 5:47 AM

She's a perfect example of why older women shouldn't have long hair.

by Anonymousreply 99June 28, 2025 11:04 AM

on The Today show she looks like she is wearing Bob Mackie.

by Anonymousreply 100June 28, 2025 11:26 AM

with Seth Meyers.

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by Anonymousreply 101June 28, 2025 1:43 PM

The View.

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by Anonymousreply 102June 28, 2025 2:05 PM

R100? Was that an insult or a compliment?

by Anonymousreply 103June 28, 2025 3:43 PM

The View part 1.

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by Anonymousreply 104June 28, 2025 5:29 PM

I watched it last night. The documentary is better than I thought it would be. If anything, it could have used some tighter editing, especially during some of the interviews. The end also seemed a little meh. But I liked learning about Jayne and her relationships. If you want a laugh, Matt Cimber’s son looks like a movie villain. Zoltan and Mickey Jr. are cute.

by Anonymousreply 105June 28, 2025 6:20 PM

R103 - I was going to say the outfit was wilder than what she wore on The View and Seth Meyers. But then I saw her outfit for Colbert and that was pretty wild too.

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by Anonymousreply 106June 28, 2025 6:25 PM

[quote]I watched it last night. The documentary is better than I thought it would be. If anything, it could have used some tighter editing, especially during some of the interviews. The end also seemed a little meh. But I liked learning about Jayne and her relationships. If you want a laugh, Matt Cimber’s son looks like a movie villain. Zoltan and Mickey Jr. are cute.

My God, for having such a turbulent upbringing, Mariska and all her siblings (except the Cimber guy) seem relatively normal and close. And Mickey Hargitay and his next wife come off as saints in word and deed.

Yes, it's much better than that NYT interview led me to believe.

by Anonymousreply 107June 29, 2025 3:41 AM

The first thing she talks to Colbert about is her jingly jangly suit which is a tribute to a dress her mother once wore.

by Anonymousreply 108June 29, 2025 9:17 AM

For what it ‘s worth to the miserable DL crew trashing Hargitay here, the documentary is good and very interesting.

by Anonymousreply 109June 29, 2025 12:28 PM

Watched the doc last night and it was enjoyable enough. But as others have suggested, I didn’t believe all of the revelations just occurred to her now. I think she’s probably known about dad for a very long time. I believe she and her family have gone through that storage unit before now. And more. It feels like a lot was contrived to make the doc more interesting.

by Anonymousreply 110June 29, 2025 12:58 PM

I looked up her young half brother, the Cimber guy, and he’s a real piece of shit. MAGA and anti-drag.

I’m not particularly fond of Mariska, but this was a good doc. Mickey Sr. was hot.

Her sister is a decade older and looks better than Mariska. That sister also posed for Playboy back in the 70s.

by Anonymousreply 111June 29, 2025 6:01 PM

[quote]I looked up her young half brother, the Cimber guy, and he’s a real piece of shit. MAGA

So is her father.

by Anonymousreply 112June 29, 2025 7:57 PM

The documentary covered very little about Jayne. Jayne got married because she thought she was pregnant when she wasn’t. They didn’t even mention that. What about Jayne and the Church of Satan? The film is a big pile of nothing.

by Anonymousreply 113June 29, 2025 7:59 PM

Her show makes viewers root for the bad guys.

by Anonymousreply 114June 29, 2025 8:03 PM

I liked it because we got to see and hear her siblings Jayne Marie, Mickey Jr., and Zoltan. Tony Cimber was a nothing.

Mickey Jr and Zoltan's hazy recollections of the accident were horrifying....and lots of photos of Jayne & Mickey I hadn't seen.

And Mariska really let that "press agent" "biographer" low life Raymond Strait have it between the eyes.

by Anonymousreply 115June 29, 2025 8:12 PM

What I find so bothersome about her is that she is the exec producer of SVU and makes sure that in almost every episode there's a line about how beautiful she is.

Bitch is 60 years old and looks it.

by Anonymousreply 116June 29, 2025 11:56 PM

R113 so what if it was a whitewash of her mother's life? Mariska told the story she wanted to tell. I had forgotten about the Church of Satan angle, I need to google that.

by Anonymousreply 117June 30, 2025 12:01 AM

This was never going to be a totally objective look at the life of Jayne Mansfield but I think Mariela did a very good job with the film. It is pretty amazing how well Mariska, Jayne, Miklos and Zoltan turned out considering all of the childhood trauma they had. Tony Cimber seems to have come out the worst of all five of Jayne’s children; he did not seem like a happy guy at all.

by Anonymousreply 118June 30, 2025 12:02 AM

When Mansfield wasn't professionally photographed or filmed she looked rather blowsy. Some of the candid video did her no favors.

by Anonymousreply 119June 30, 2025 12:03 AM

I get that it can be very easy to hide big family secrets when the person who has that secret wants it that way. I'm a 64 year old gay guy, my oldest sister is five years older. It wasn't until I was in my mid-20s that I found out she's my half-sister, and I didn't find out from my parents. I was hanging out at a friend's house that I went to church with and so his parents knew mine. My friend's dad mentioned in passing that my oldest sister was my half-sister, thinking that I knew, and until that moment I didn't.

I was never close to that sister until 15 years ago when her son committed suicide and she had to fly back to town to deal with the aftermath. Now she's the only sib I'm close to. I asked her about it a few years back and she had always known since she remembered her biological father. So yeah, people can hold secrets close when they want to.

by Anonymousreply 120June 30, 2025 12:44 AM

Better than I expected. I would like to know more about the stepmother and her siblings. The grandmother seems like she was a piece of work. With all the armchair psychology, I’m surprised no one mentioned that Mansfield probably couldn’t live on her own for more than 5 minutes.

Tony seems to make exploitation crap. He came across as a very unhappy, slightly scary guy. I’m guessing Strait was a lowlife. I wonder if the fan club guy was some big old queen.

by Anonymousreply 121June 30, 2025 1:00 AM

Zoltan has features that clearly look like Micky.

Mariska does look Italian and not like the others.

by Anonymousreply 122June 30, 2025 1:04 AM

Ada is really annoying, making the servants take the pledge.

The actress playing Gladys is terrible.

by Anonymousreply 123June 30, 2025 2:07 AM

Did anyone else notice that Zoltan’s left eye was green while his right eye was brown?

by Anonymousreply 124June 30, 2025 3:30 AM

Like this movie or Mariska will need to send for a bus.

by Anonymousreply 125June 30, 2025 3:34 AM

People on that suit

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by Anonymousreply 126June 30, 2025 3:42 AM

[quote]During the Monday, June 16, episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the actress and producer, 61, appeared in a black Stella McCartney suit covered with 3D metallic bobbles.

Paragraph 2 of R126's link.

Anyone else see the "Oh Dear" in that paragraph?

by Anonymousreply 127June 30, 2025 4:09 AM

I wonder how many gay men her bodybuilder father had to please when he was starting out.

by Anonymousreply 128June 30, 2025 4:57 AM

I'm now pronouncing her name MarISHka in my head.

I don't like her.

by Anonymousreply 129June 30, 2025 5:18 AM

I personally don't like documentaries made about one's self. They're not objective and they're very self-indulgent. "Is the camera ready? Okay now ask me questions about myself!"

by Anonymousreply 130June 30, 2025 5:22 AM

I love Marishka Manshfield!

by Anonymousreply 131June 30, 2025 5:32 AM

Is it weird that she doesn’t have any memories of Jayne? I have memories from when I was 2 or 3.

by Anonymousreply 132June 30, 2025 10:31 AM

She remembers odd bits of things and how Jayne's voice wasn't breathy all the time. Her story is different at the beginning than at the end of teh special. Despite the long list of credits, I guess there wasn't a competent continuity person.

by Anonymousreply 133June 30, 2025 11:13 AM

[quote]I wonder how many gay men her bodybuilder father had to please when he was starting out.

It was Mae West that he had to put out for when he joined her muscleman revue.

That's what kickstarted his career.

by Anonymousreply 134June 30, 2025 11:55 AM

R134 she actually hand-picked him.

by Anonymousreply 135June 30, 2025 11:59 AM

Is hand-picked a euphemism?

by Anonymousreply 136June 30, 2025 12:00 PM

I meant she saw his picture and wanted him for her show, so he had to "audition," if you know what I mean.

Mae West was a lech.

by Anonymousreply 137June 30, 2025 12:13 PM

You know it's true.

by Anonymousreply 138June 30, 2025 1:23 PM

R132 did your mother die in a violent crash in which you were also present? Seems like that could be a factor

by Anonymousreply 139June 30, 2025 2:55 PM

She's very bosomy on The View. Her mum would be proud.

by Anonymousreply 140July 1, 2025 12:02 AM

Seems like she's leaving bread crumbs of revelations every 12-18 months. Didn't she talk about her rape from almost 40 years ago just last year for the first time?

She's been on a sex abuse show for over 25 years and just NOW she talks about it?

Now it's her real father? Mickey Hargitay has been dead for almost 20 years.

She annoys me. She had a c-list acting career for her entire life, then lucked into this role. I have a feeling she wants to leave the show and do something else which is why she's getting some other stuff out there.

This feels very unnatural and weird. Why sit on these 'secrets' for over 20 years?

by Anonymousreply 141July 1, 2025 12:18 AM

Is Matt Cimber interviewed? He was Jaynes third husband and is still alive, at 89.

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by Anonymousreply 142July 1, 2025 12:46 AM

No but their son Tony gets a few minutes.

by Anonymousreply 143July 1, 2025 2:35 AM

Can Mariska do her mom's famous squeal?

by Anonymousreply 144July 1, 2025 2:40 AM

I love the name - so easy to pronounce, even after 4 vodka stingers. Marishka!

by Anonymousreply 145July 1, 2025 2:43 AM

It’s strange she hasn’t hosted SNL yet. Lorne must not be a fan.

by Anonymousreply 146July 1, 2025 2:46 AM

[QUOTE]I looked up her young half brother, the Cimber guy, and he’s a real piece of shit. MAGA

[QUOTE]So is her father.

Which one? Mickey Hargitay died in 2006. I've not been able to find anything MAGA-related about Sardelli.

Would you be able to enlighten us with

by Anonymousreply 147July 1, 2025 2:48 AM

Vanity Fair paywall removed.

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by Anonymousreply 148July 1, 2025 2:51 AM

She's a third-rate actress, nowhere near as popular as most of the people they have hosting SNL.

by Anonymousreply 149July 1, 2025 2:51 AM

a link or evidence a link or evidence, r112?

(Sorry, prematurely hit post)

by Anonymousreply 150July 1, 2025 2:52 AM

I don't get the hate. She lucked into a dream gig of sorts, and worked pretty steadily before nabbing it. It's kind of wild, but completely understandable, why those kids left that storage locker alone for decades. I always was curious how I'd deal if something horrific like surviving a fatal accident happened to me as a kid, add to that the child of celebrity, and not just any celebrity, but the one who had a wicked ton of icky, publicly known details about every last misstep she made - and I probably would have had to lock it away inside too.

Likable everybody, and there seems like palpable love between the siblings. Mickey seems like an amazing dad, as does Nelson. And Peter seems like a dream. Do I wish she touched on the Lavey stuff? Of course, but I totally understand why she didn't. Would love to actually hear the brothers recollections sometime. But very good, and strangely moving in ways I didn't expect, and I know a fair amount about Jayne but this still hit.

by Anonymousreply 151July 1, 2025 5:35 AM

Mickey was physical perfection

Sad to hear the MAGA shit tho'

by Anonymousreply 152July 1, 2025 8:25 AM

[QUOTE]Sad to hear the MAGA shit tho'

Fuck you cunt. Hargitay died in 2006, but you read that already as you decided to flip your disgusting genitals outside of your dramatics.

by Anonymousreply 153July 1, 2025 9:02 AM

It's Cimber and his son that are MAGATS.

by Anonymousreply 154July 1, 2025 12:30 PM

And papa Sardelli, allegedly. No proof has been presented but he was conspicuously wearing his Stars and Stripes pin in the doco

by Anonymousreply 155July 1, 2025 12:46 PM

She looks like Xena's lesbian grandmother.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

by Anonymousreply 156July 1, 2025 12:51 PM

R154 Oh good - (I know he died decades ago but I thought it was a general Repub Repug comment).

by Anonymousreply 157July 1, 2025 12:59 PM

When I mention the famous photo of Sophia Loren glancing sidelong at Mansfield’s exposed bosom, Hargitay’s face crumples. “That was a rough one. To see another woman look at your mom like that was excruciating for me as a little girl.”

Mariska should have confronted Sophia about that stink-eye!

by Anonymousreply 158July 1, 2025 5:45 PM

^^^^^

Excruciating? Why? It’s actually pretty funny.

If Jayne were my mom, I’d think, “Wow! Sophia Loren is sitting at my mother’s table!”

by Anonymousreply 159July 1, 2025 8:19 PM

Mariska didn't change her surname when she married Peter Hermann so I guess she won't be changing it for her new found father either.

by Anonymousreply 160July 1, 2025 9:34 PM

Mariska wasn't upset about her mom deliberately nearly spilling her tits on the tablr for attention and she begrudges Loren for a perfectly normal reaction? Jesus.

by Anonymousreply 161July 1, 2025 10:27 PM

“I’ve had so much strife and turmoil with this word mother—and here I was, this iconic mother figure in the culture. Isn’t that ironic?”

by Anonymousreply 162July 1, 2025 11:34 PM

When she was 30, Hargitay went to see Sardelli perform in Atlantic City and introduced herself. He burst into tears—telling her, “I’ve been waiting 30 years for this moment.” It wasn’t a fairy-tale scene for Hargitay, though. “I went full Olivia Benson on him,” she tells me, switching into an icily aggressive voice. “I was like, ‘I don’t want anything, I don’t need anything from you.… I have a dad.’”

by Anonymousreply 163July 1, 2025 11:36 PM

I loved the doc. Very well made and emotionally resonant.

by Anonymousreply 164July 4, 2025 3:28 AM
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