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TIL that Alessandra Mussolini, the daughter of Axis dictator Benito Mussolini, is Sophia Loren's niece, released a #1 pop record in Japan, appeared in topless in Playboy, has acted in a dozen films, and has been a member of Parliament since 1992

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