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

How old is she now, 140?

Non-paywall link

You want HOW MUCH FORINT for that paprika???

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

Oleebia!

Pisan.

If only she could embrace her dyke-itude as well

[quote]Pisan.

Oh, dear!

Mickey Hargitay was hot.

[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.

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

Mansfield was just gross - an embarrassment.

Eye-talian beauty Mariska Hargitay

especially heinous!

Jayne was a whore, darlin’!

I had no idea Jane Mansfield was her mother.

Huh.

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

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.

She had pancake tits, r10.

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

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

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

I find it of interest, r21, sue me.

[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!

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

She looks great in OP’s post.

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.

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

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.

Are we sure her father isn’t daddy LaVey?

[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.

[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.

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

Isn't this really old news?

[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.

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

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

[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.

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.

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

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

"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."

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

very nice pics of the subject

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.

[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.

Wasn’t her first regular job on Falcon Crest?

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

I wonder what he has to say about all this?

R18 there’s no paywall in the first place

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

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

How she nabbed that hottie I'll never understand.

Gentlemen, Photoshop is a girl's best friend.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!)

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.

What??? This is absurd slander!!!

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

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

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.

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.

[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!"

😂

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

Mariska Hargitay-Sardelli Hermann?

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

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?

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.

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

[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

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.

R37 = JLC, stroking her cock.

[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.

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.

^^ true

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

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.

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

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.

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

Tell me about it, r76.

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

New York Times rave.

Mariska interviewed by New York Times.

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

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

I like her.

Peter is so handsome in person, it hurts.

She was on the Today show this morning.

She looked like shit.

I find her kind of scary looking.

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.

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

She seems insufferable in that NYT interview.

r91 = Diane Neal

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.

[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.

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

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.”

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.)

On the Today show.

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

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

with Seth Meyers.

The View.

R100? Was that an insult or a compliment?

The View part 1.

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.

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.

[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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

So is her father.

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.

Her show makes viewers root for the bad guys.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Zoltan has features that clearly look like Micky.

Mariska does look Italian and not like the others.

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

The actress playing Gladys is terrible.

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

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

People on that suit

[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?

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

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

I don't like her.

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!"

I love Marishka Manshfield!

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

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.

[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.

R134 she actually hand-picked him.

Is hand-picked a euphemism?

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.

You know it's true.

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

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

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?

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

No but their son Tony gets a few minutes.

Can Mariska do her mom's famous squeal?

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

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

[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

Vanity Fair paywall removed.

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

a link or evidence a link or evidence, r112?

(Sorry, prematurely hit post)

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.

Mickey was physical perfection

Sad to hear the MAGA shit tho'

[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.

It's Cimber and his son that are MAGATS.

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

She looks like Xena's lesbian grandmother.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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

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!

^^^^^

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!”

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.

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.

“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?”

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.’”

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

With the way they staged the big piano reveal at the end of the documentary all I could think when they showed Mariska staring into the storage unit was that it was the car her mom died in.

I wonder what her assessment of her mother as an actress is… considering she was a desperate, squealing, no talent pig.

I was fascinated to read that she was a trained violinist. It takes a certain intellectual capability to acquire that skill - something she skillfully concealed in her movie career choices.

R166 oooooh watch out, DL! We have an EDGELORD in our midst!

R166? He don't even GIVE a fuck! No one is safe from his razor sharp contemporary takes! If you play with them R166 matches, you gonna git BURNED, son!

[quote]r168 ...his razor sharp contemporary takes...

Are they contemporary takes?

Ethan Mordden's book MOVIE STAR and Julie Burchill's GIRLS ON FILM essentially stated the same thing.

Jayne seemed to have embraced a LOT of bad hairdon'ts in her later career. It's like a parade of John Waters wigs...

Interesting article about the eldest daughter.

IDK if there’s much to say about Lavey2church of satan other than it was a silly publicity stunt which by the end of her life she was doing regularly.

She’s known about Nelson Sardelli since 1989, so I would say that’s a very long time. Jaynes mother died in 2000 and her first husband died in 2013.

Thanks R171 very interesting.