Scholar Germaine Greer has for the first time confessed that she had a brief affair with Federico Fellini, the married film director.
Greer has described how she ended up in bed with Fellini in 1975 after she was earmarked for a small part in his film Casanova.
Writing in her column for The Guardian, she described how she arrived on the film set at the Cinnecitta studios in Rome wearing nothing but a flimsy summer dress which "instantly transfixed him".
Later, he arrived at her home unannounced, and confident of what was to happen that he had packed a pair of brown silk pyjamas with cream piping.
She also remembered how Fellini, a notorious philanderer who used to refer to the "insatiable dragon" in his trousers, would call his wife, the actress Giulietta Masina, every few hours.
She revealed that her involvement in Casanova has apparently not been known before, and has surprised Fellini scholars.
Greer described how Fellini consulted her over the script and made sure she saw a rough cut of the film.
However, she was not interested in a role and never appeared in it, reports the Telegraph.
Looking back fondly on the time they shared, the British feminist said, "Sexual athletes are tuppence a dozen. Fellini was a many-sided genius. I do not hope to meet his like again.”
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