The Salvador Dali museum which was the subject of a documentary entitled Amanda Lear: call me miss this Friday, April 21 on Arte, has always maintained many mysteries about his personality. Her deep voice and theatrical elocution helped suggest that she could be a man. Playing with this enigma, Amanda Lear has also always, like Karl Lagerfeld, left floating in the air a blur around his age : “Never any date punctuates the biography of Amanda”we hear in the documentary.
But the director, Patrick Jeudy, thinks he has an idea of his date of birth. If Amanda Lear has always said that she was born in 1950, he evokes in the documentary, with supporting images, his first casting. For him, impossible that on this date, in 1966, the young woman was only 16 years old. At the microphone of Sud radio, this Thursday, April 20, he also declares: “I don’t know Amanda Lear’s age but anyway, she’s not the age she claims to be. She claimed to be born in the 50s, late 50s maybe, but we are more in the 40s“. Amanda Lear has always taken it with humor: “When I’m dead I will be carbon 14 dated to finally know my age“, she even said one day.
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Amanda Lear devastated by tragedy
On the night of December 15 to 16, 2000, Amanda Lear has lost everything. Filming in Italy, Dali’s muse learns that her typically Provençal farmhouse has been two-thirds devastated by flames. On site, firefighters found two bodiesthat of Didier Dieufis, close friend of the singer, as well as that of her husband Alain-Philippe Malagnac. Overnight, Amanda Lear’s life turns to horror : “I lost all her love letters, all our photos. Personally, I no longer have a jewel, no longer a record. The few paintings by Salvador Dali that he gave me are destroyed.“. Very affected, Amanda Lear never really recovered from the disappearance of Alain-Philippe Malagnac. “It’s as if I had a huge thorn in my side that prevents me from moving forward. So I try to throw myself into the job.” she whispered, in the early 2000s, in the columns of the Parisian.
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