Brigitte Nielsen Weds Italian Beau
Nielsen, who turns 43 on July 15, and Dessi, 28, held a wedding ceremony in the Dominican Republic on Feb. 21, 2005 – but the nuptials were not legal because Nielsen had not finished divorcing her fourth husband, former race car driver Raoul Meyer.
Last year’s ceremony “was more like an official engagement,” Nielsen’s longtime friend and manager, Luigi Balduini, said. “They put it on the news that it was a marriage, but it was an engagement, because she was still legally married.”
This time though, it’s the real deal. Nielsen “is pretty excited,” Balduini says. “She is like a little child. She is pretty happy.”
Nielsen is no stranger to unconventional situations. The 6-ft.-plus Danish actress’s relationship with former Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav, whom she met in 2004 on VH1’s The Surreal Life, was chronicled on another reality series on the network, Strange Love, in 2005.
The show ended with Nielsen apparently choosing Dessi over Flav, but Balduini downplayed Nielsen’s involvement with the hip-hop star, saying last year that it was “more of a strong friendship – but it’s very heavy.”
Nielsen was previously married to Sylvester Stallone (husband No. 2) and involved with former NFL star Mark Gastineau, with whom she has a teenage son, Killian. She has three other sons with ex-husbands Meyer and photographer Sebastian Copeland.
Nielsen began her career as a model for such designers as Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace. In the mid-1980s, she made the transition to acting, starring in such action pictures as Red Sonja, Cobra, Rocky IV, and Beverly Hills Cop II.
BRIGITTE I THINK U DID A GOOD JOB BUY ENDING YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FLAV BEACAUSE NOW U FOUND SOME 1 ALMOST AS TALL AS U. IT WAS ALSO A GOOD THING BEACAUS FLAVOR OF LOVE WAS 1 OF THE FUNIEST TV SHOWS I HAV EVER SEEN AND IT LOOK LIKE HAD SO MUCH FUN FINDING LOVE EVEN THOUGH HE STILL HASENT FOUND THE RIGHT GIRL HE WILL SOME DAY JUST LIKE U FOUND MATTIA DESSI GOOD LUCK. I WISH FLAV THE BEST OF LUCK 2!!!!!!!!!! THAT OICTURE OF U AND YO MAN IS HOT!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by JAIMMY — May 4, 2007 @ 2:35 pm