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Anneka Di Lorenzo was a prominent model and exploitation film star whose tragic and mysterious death remains unsolved. Born on September 6, 1952, in St. Paul, Minnesota, Marjorie Lee Thoreson ran away to Los Angeles after her parents' divorce (via Yahoo). There she worked as a topless dancer, cocktail waitress, and receptionist, often under pseudonyms. In 1973, she appeared in Penthouse, under the name Anneka Di Lorenzo, thanks to the assistance of publisher Bob Guccione.
Guccione helped cast Di Lorenzo in the controversial Caligula, an erotic history film that Roger Ebert famously walked out of. Di Lorenzo continued acting in exploitation films like Mama's Dirty Girls, Act of Vengeance, and Messalina, Messalina!, all of which came out before Caligula due to the film's production problems. Her final role came in the Michael Caine psychological horror thriller, Dressed to Kill. Then tragically,...
Anneka Di Lorenzo was a prominent model and exploitation film star whose tragic and mysterious death remains unsolved. Born on September 6, 1952, in St. Paul, Minnesota, Marjorie Lee Thoreson ran away to Los Angeles after her parents' divorce (via Yahoo). There she worked as a topless dancer, cocktail waitress, and receptionist, often under pseudonyms. In 1973, she appeared in Penthouse, under the name Anneka Di Lorenzo, thanks to the assistance of publisher Bob Guccione.
Guccione helped cast Di Lorenzo in the controversial Caligula, an erotic history film that Roger Ebert famously walked out of. Di Lorenzo continued acting in exploitation films like Mama's Dirty Girls, Act of Vengeance, and Messalina, Messalina!, all of which came out before Caligula due to the film's production problems. Her final role came in the Michael Caine psychological horror thriller, Dressed to Kill. Then tragically,...
- 6.9.2024
- von Zachary Moser
- ScreenRant
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