HOTEL PARADISO - LOLLOBRIGADA: 'HUGHES PURSUED ME FOR 13 YEARS'

LOLLOBRIGADA: 'HUGHES PURSUED ME FOR 13 YEARS'

HOTEL PARADISO star GINA LOLLOBRIGADA spent 13 years of her life repeatedly turning down marriage proposals from movie mogul HOWARD HUGHES The Italian actress, once dubbed The World's Most Beautiful Woman, worked with Hughes in the 1950s and claims her then-husband DR MILKO SKOFIC refused to let her work in America after realising the eccentric magnate's intentions The TRAPEZE actress says, "I told him (Hughes) 'No' for over 13 years I don't know if he asked other actresses, just as I have no idea if they also turned him down "He wouldn't take no for an answer He'd send his lawyers to speak with me wherever I was Even in the desert in Algeria I had a contract signed with him to do films, but my husband, when he saw his true intentions, wouldn't let me return to America "Nonetheless, he fought to convince me in every way imaginable Including trying to marry me while we were on his plane, in the middle of the flight "