Sylvia Kristel (Emmanuelle) dies at the age of 60.
The Dutch actress, model and singer Sylvia Kristel died this Wednesday, October 17, a victim of cancer and when she was 60 years old. Kristel became Emmanuelle in 1974, after being discovered by photographer Just Jaecki to star in the adaptation of an erotic novel.
The fame that gave her this role caught her for life and she returned to interpret it in up to three sequels. In France the film remained at the box office for ten years, while in Spain we had to wait for the death of the dictator Franco to be able to see it in theaters, and the impact was such that it became a landmark of eroticism.Kristel tried to distance herself from Emmanuelle with other films like 'Airport 79', 'A Woman of Life', 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' or 'Mata Hari', but he didn't get it.
Personally, he did not do well at all, and he said he had suffered sexual abuse at age nine by a client of the hotel that his parents ran. Later their father left them to go with another woman. His adult life was also turbulent and full of inveterate drug, alcohol, and tobacco addictions. She had been a smoker since she was eleven years old, which must have influenced the cancer of the throat, lung and esophagus, which she suffered.
Source - fotogramas.es