Ilona Staller, Italo Disco Queen

How Staller Made a Mark on the 1980s European Music Scene With Synths, Sex, and Sylph-like Vocals.

Ilona Staller had many incarnations: a radical politician, a muse to the likes of Jeff Koons, a dead ringer for a Botticelli female figure (in that particular late-70s/80s color palette), and a famed adult-entertainment performer. Yet we would be remiss to neglect her Italo disco career, and now that she is giving interviews in magazines for the re-rele…