SONALI AND rOSSELLINI - A LOVE STORY

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When Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini married for the fourth time in 1957, it caused quite the scandal

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For one, he divorced iconic actress Ingrid Bergman, his wife of seven years and with whom he had three children

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For another, the woman he fell in love with was 27-year-old Sonali Dasgupta, who was already married and had a son

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Sonali left India for Rome, where the couple married soon after and had a daughter named Raffaella

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In Rome, Sonali was elegant in sarees and ran a boutique

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Roberto Rossellini adopted Sonali Dasgupta's son from her first marriage, renaming him Gil

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Gil Rossellini, seen here with Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini's daughter Isabella, became a filmmaker

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Sonali and Roberto Rossellini were married till his death in 1977, though they had separated by then. She died in 2014

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