Beverly D’Angelo says her husband resigned in the 1990s when she told him she had fallen in love with Al Pacino.
The ‘Christmas Vacation’ actress explained that she and Duke of Italy Lorenzo Salviati eloped in the early 1980s but agreed that they could go out and have their own fun, “but if there were any crises or anything, we would get back together,” she told People magazine.
“But when I met Al Pacino and told him about my little deal, he said, ‘Well, that’s crazy,'” she recalled.
D’Angelo said she wasn’t jealous when she first told her husband she was in love with Pacino, but he balked at the idea that she was dating an actor.
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Beverly D’Angelo and Al Pacino at the premiere of Insider, New York, New York November 1999. (Steve Eichner/Getty Images)
“He said, ‘An actor? No, no, not an actor.’ And I said, ‘I really love him, and we’re talking about having kids, and he thinks it’s crazy that I’m married, and now I think I am too.'”
Beverly D’Angelo, second from right, with her adult twins, Anton and Olivia Pacino, left and second from left. (Gilbert Flores/Diversity via Getty Images)
But she said after explaining it was the ‘Scent of a Woman’ actor, he said, “‘Al Pacino, he’s amazing. I love him. We’re getting a divorce!'”
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After the divorce, she said: “That’s when my mother-in-law started to love me, I think. It took her 15 years to understand that I wasn’t there [the marriage] for a title of wealth or for a privilege.”
Al Pacino with daughter Olivia, right. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
She added, “It was great lovemaking.”
D’Angelo and Pacino never married, but they have two children together: twins Olivia and Anton, who are now 21 years old.
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The couple split in 2003. “The greatest gift Al ever gave me was making me a mom,” she said.