Gigi Proietti, who is Sagitta Alter, his great love

Noborn in Sweden in 1940, Sagitta Alter was Gigi Proietti’s partner for her entire life, passed away on November 2, 2020 on his birthday. A former tour guide, the actor and his partner met in Rome in 1962. Apparently the spark between the two struck while dancing Hully Gully together. At the beginning, according to what they said, it seemed like “a simple summer flirtation”. But a short time later they moved in together and never left each other again.

Gigi Proietti, Sagitta Alter and their two daughters

From the union of Gigi Proietti and Sagitta Alter, land the couple’s two daughters, Susanna and Carlotta: the daughters themselves have always said that mum and dad were a very close couple. And Carlotta, guest of Caterina Balivo at The right timehe still remembers everything he learned from his famous dad.

Despite a very strong feeling, however, the actor and the former Swedish tour guide never married. She explained why, years ago, in an interview cited by Corriere della Sera on the occasion of the second anniversary of the actor’s death: «At first because we didn’t believe in the institution of marriage, then because it seemed superfluous to us. We have already managed to achieve the most beautiful goal, that of building a united family.”

Because they never married

And also the actor in another interview, this time with the weekly Moreover, he had explained that Now we don’t think about marriage anymore. We didn’t particularly care when we were young, but we don’t rule it out. Who knows, maybe one day we will look at each other and we will want to take this step too». But that day never came: the Italian film star died before arriving there.

Sagitta Alter, a life in the shadow of her partner

And right from the moment of her partner’s death, Sagitta Alter – who had already spent an entire life in the actor’s shadow, maintaining the utmost secrecy about her family – she definitively retired to private life.

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