Before entering films, she studied law at Oxford University in England and graduated with a doctorate.
Blue-eyed redhead, with the perfect body measurements and the same sort
of face, she was a stand-in for Sophia Loren.
To advance in her acting career, before 1963 she had two cosmetic
operations that left her face distinctly different from her look-alike,
Sophia Loren.
One son Emiliano (b.1974).
On 8 May 1999 Gabel's 87 year-old father Giuseppe Gabellini was murdered. He died at the scene in his daughter's arms.