“Hello Mom”, with a broken heart: This is how Roberta Capua announces with a post and a story on Instagram the death of Marisa Jossa, whose name is engraved in the history of Miss Italia because she was queen of the competition she won 27 years later her daughter. Marisa Jossa, Miss Italy in 1959, was the first beauty queen of the era of patron Enzo Mirigliani. Daughter Roberta Capua was crowned in 1986.
The 1959 final took place in Ischia with 34 girls. There were 15 jurors, including actresses Eleonora Ruffo and Link Shaw. The awards ceremony took place at “O’ Saracino”, where singers and guitarists Ugo Calise and Armando Romeo performed, while the moderator was Renato Tagliani. “The tallest (1.74m) won after winning the Selva di Val Gardena competition, where he had holidayed with his family for ten years,” said the owner. Marisa was accompanied by her mother, Anna Vasdeki, of Greek origin. “One of those beauties who doesn’t make people turn around in the street has won,” the newspapers wrote, “she wears no eye makeup and doesn’t color her eyebrows or her nails.” The prize for the winner was one million lire, but she was also lucky because just a few days earlier Piaggio had also offered a Vespa as a prize, which went to her. Marisa Jossa will accompany her daughter Roberta Capua to win the title 27 years later, a case that has never happened again at Miss Italia.
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