2023-11-20 14:47:13
Goodbye to Marisa Jossa, Miss Italy 1959: she was the mother of Roberta Capua, herself winner of the competition in 1986. Jossa was the first Miss under the management of Enzo Mirigliani, making her debut as patron. Marisa Jossa died in Naples at the age of 85 and when she was 76 she was the victim of a serious road accident: she was hit by a scooter leaving a market in the Neapolitan neighborhood of Vomero. “Hi mum”, wrote Roberta Capua, now a television presenter, in a post on Instagram: in the post a little heart and a photo of Marisa smiling, elegant and beautiful. Many messages of closeness, affection and condolences: from Simona Ventura to Tosca D’Aquino, from Natasha Stefanenko to Dalila Di Lazzaro and Francesca Barra.
Miss Italia, with a statement, recalled that the 1959 final won by Marisa Jossa at the age of 21 took place in Ischia with 34 girls. There were 15 jurors, including the actresses Eleonora Ruffo and Link Shaw. The awards ceremony took place in the place called ‘O’ Saracino’ where the singer-guitarists Ugo Calise and Armando Romeo performed, while the presenter was Renato Tagliani. “The tallest (1.74 metres) who had won in the selections in Selva di Val Gardena, where she had been going on holiday with her family for ten years, won – said the owner Enzo Mirigliani – Marisa was accompanied by her mother, Anna Vasdeki, from Greek origin”. “She has won one of those beauties who don’t make people turn around in the street – wrote the newspapers of the time – she doesn’t wear eye make-up, nor does she dye her eyebrows or nails”. The prize for the winner was one million lire, but she was also lucky because just a few days before her Piaggio had raffled off a Vespa which went to her.”
Marisa Jossa will accompany her daughter Roberta Capua 27 years later to win the title of Miss Italy, a case that has never occurred again.
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