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20-07-2025
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Mariska Hargitay Jokes Only ‘Younger People' Didn't Know Her Mom Was Jayne Mansfield
NEED TO KNOW Mariska Hargitay joked that only "younger people" didn't know her mom was Jayne Mansfield during a Q&A following a special screening of her documentary My Mom Jayne on July 17 Mansfield, who died in 1967 at age 34, was a Hollywood icon who starred in films including Promises! Promises! and Too Hot to Handle In My Mom Jayne, which marked Mariska's feature film directorial debut, she examines her mother's life — and reveals a shocking family secretMariska Hargitay's mother, Jayne Mansfield, may be a Hollywood icon — but her fan base runs a bit older. While taking part in a Q&A hosted by HamptonsFilm on Thursday, July 17, Mariska, 61, joked about how not everyone knew that Mansfield was her mom when her revealing documentary, My Mom Jayne, premiered earlier this year. After panel host Molly Jong-Fast noted that "a lot of people had no idea that [Mansfield] was your mom" despite the fact that she's "really, really famous," Mariska replied, "Only younger people don't know. The kids don't know." The discussion followed a special screening of My Mom Jayne at Guild Hall in East Hampton. The documentary, which marked Mariska's feature film directorial debut, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17 ahead of its debut on HBO and Max on June 27. In a press release announcing the documentary, Mariska said, 'This movie is a labor of love and longing. It's a search for the mother I never knew, an integration of a part of myself I'd never owned, and a reclaiming of my mother's story and my own truth." Mansfield — who rose to fame as a Playboy model and an actress, known for such films as Too Hot to Handle and Promises! Promises! — died at age 34 in a car crash in 1967. Mariska, who was 3 at the time, and her two older brothers were in the car and survived the accident. "I've spent my whole life distancing myself from my mother, Jayne Mansfield, the sex symbol," Mariska says in the film's trailer. "Her career made me want to do it differently, but I want to understand her now." "I don't have any memories of her," she adds. In the documentary, Mariska also revealed a shocking family secret that she kept for 30 years. She explained that her biological father is not Mickey Hargitay, the man who raised her, but rather a former Las Vegas entertainer named Nelson Sardelli. She told Vanity Fair that she first learned about Sardelli when she was 25 and then went to see him perform in Atlantic City, N.J., when she was 30. While Sardelli had an emotional reaction to their meeting, telling her, 'I've been waiting 30 years for this moment" — Mariska grappled with "knowing I'm living a lie my entire life." During her discussion with Jong-Fast on Thursday, Mariska shared that she spent Father's Day with Sardelli, 90, this year. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "It was so magical," she recalled. "He apologized and he said, 'Thank you for forgiving me.' And I said, 'Thank you for making the choice that you made.' " "So it's like everyone was right in the end, but I grew up not knowing that," she added. The panel discussion was part of HamptonsFilm's Summer Docs Screening Series. On Aug. 29, Middletown directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss and film subject Jeff Dutemple will join Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) co-chair Alec Baldwin and artistic director David Nugent in conversation. Richard Gladstein, the new executive director of HamptonsFilms and HIFF, told PEOPLE: "We have a nice platform from which to show our films. And why do films want to come to film festivals? You create buzz and word of mouth about your film. That's what happens at film festivals. You discover films and filmmakers." Read the original article on People
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19-07-2025
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Mariska Hargitay reveals biological dad apologized while spending Father's Day together
"He said, 'Thank you for forgiving me.' And I said, 'Thank you for making the choice that you made.'"Key points Mariska Hargitay revealed that she spent Father's Day with her biological father, Nelson Sardelli. The actress, who was raised by her mother's husband, said that Sardelli apologized to her during their time together. Hargitay announced her father's true identity earlier this year, ahead of her documentary My Mom Hargitay is discussing her relationship with her biological father The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star reflected on her complicated family dynamic during a Q&A following a screening of her documentary, My Mom Jayne, which revealed that her biological dad is not Mickey Hargitay but instead Nelson Sardelli, the ex-lover of her mother, Jayne Mansfield. During her appearance at HamptonsFilm's SummerDocs series in East Hampton, N.Y., on Thursday, Hargitay revealed that she spent Father's Day with Sardelli this year. "It was so magical," she said (via PEOPLE). "He apologized and he said, 'Thank you for forgiving me.' And I said, 'Thank you for making the choice that you made.'" She continued, "So it's like everyone was right in the end, but I grew up not knowing that." Hargitay knew her true parenthood with certainty by the time she was 30, but did not discuss the matter publicly out of respect for Mickey Hargitay, who raised her. She eventually decided to share the truth in her documentary, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May. "It's a matter of sitting with it for so long and acquiring some wisdom and loosening my grip on thinking that it had to be this secret," Hargitay told Entertainment Weekly. "I realized that the truth is ultimately what sets us free, and I had kept my goal to be loyal to my father long enough." Hargitay said that making the documentary offered new insights into the nuances and complex emotions of her family history. "It became this living, breathing story, and I wanted to understand each person and the choices that they made because I didn't have the whole picture," she explained. "When I learned the whole story from more of a bird's eye view, I said, 'It's such a beautiful family story.'" The actress also told EW that she was "so scared and so angry" that her father's true identity would become public over a decade ago. "I was so fearful to have to confront it before I was ready to," she said. "Thank God it never went anywhere. It's been a real gift to me to be able to tell it in my time when I was ready."At the Q&A, Hargitay further reflected on her decision to discuss her true parentage in the doc. "So many people carry things that they don't need to," she said. "I think the only way out is through." The process of making the film offered Hargitay new perspectives on her parents. "Once I understood why, there was magic on the other side, and there was love on the other side," she said. "I spent my life feeling unworthy, not wanted, not claimed, not good enough, abandoned. And then I realized, 'Oh, no, sweetie, you were chosen six ways from Sunday.'" My Mom Jayne is now streaming on HBO Max. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly Solve the daily Crossword
The Guardian
19-07-2025
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- The Guardian
Justin Bieber to Human: the week in rave reviews
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Yahoo
19-07-2025
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Mariska Hargitay reveals biological dad apologized while spending Father's Day together
Key points Mariska Hargitay revealed that she spent Father's Day with her biological father, Nelson Sardelli. The actress, who was raised by her mother's husband, said that Sardelli apologized to her during their time together. Hargitay announced her father's true identity earlier this year, ahead of her documentary My Mom Hargitay is discussing her relationship with her biological father The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star reflected on her complicated family dynamic during a Q&A following a screening of her documentary, My Mom Jayne, which revealed that her biological dad is not Mickey Hargitay but instead Nelson Sardelli, the ex-lover of her mother, Jayne Mansfield. During her appearance at HamptonsFilm's SummerDocs series in East Hampton, N.Y., on Thursday, Hargitay revealed that she spent Father's Day with Sardelli this year. "It was so magical," she said (via PEOPLE). "He apologized and he said, 'Thank you for forgiving me.' And I said, 'Thank you for making the choice that you made.'" She continued, "So it's like everyone was right in the end, but I grew up not knowing that." Hargitay knew her true parenthood with certainty by the time she was 30, but did not discuss the matter publicly out of respect for Mickey Hargitay, who raised her. She eventually decided to share the truth in her documentary, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May. "It's a matter of sitting with it for so long and acquiring some wisdom and loosening my grip on thinking that it had to be this secret," Hargitay told Entertainment Weekly. "I realized that the truth is ultimately what sets us free, and I had kept my goal to be loyal to my father long enough." Hargitay said that making the documentary offered new insights into the nuances and complex emotions of her family history. "It became this living, breathing story, and I wanted to understand each person and the choices that they made because I didn't have the whole picture," she explained. "When I learned the whole story from more of a bird's eye view, I said, 'It's such a beautiful family story.'" The actress also told EW that she was "so scared and so angry" that her father's true identity would become public over a decade ago. "I was so fearful to have to confront it before I was ready to," she said. "Thank God it never went anywhere. It's been a real gift to me to be able to tell it in my time when I was ready."At the Q&A, Hargitay further reflected on her decision to discuss her true parentage in the doc. "So many people carry things that they don't need to," she said. "I think the only way out is through." The process of making the film offered Hargitay new perspectives on her parents. "Once I understood why, there was magic on the other side, and there was love on the other side," she said. "I spent my life feeling unworthy, not wanted, not claimed, not good enough, abandoned. And then I realized, 'Oh, no, sweetie, you were chosen six ways from Sunday.'" My Mom Jayne is now streaming on HBO Max. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
Daily Mail
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Hollywood starlet's legacy of sadness, regret... and one final shocking twist
Jayne Mansfield was born into the wrong era. She wanted to be another Marilyn Monroe, when really she was a smarter, more talented prototype of Katie Price. Most people, if they recognise her at all today, know Jayne only from a single photograph, as the blonde in the low-cut dress, under the withering sidelong gaze of a contemptuous Sophia Loren. My Mom Jayne, a biographical portrait by her daughter Mariska Hargitay, with the help of her numerous half-siblings, was a reminder that, for a few years around 1960, the starlet was a mega-celebrity — bringing up her family in a pink Beverly Hills mansion with its own zoo and jungle in the grounds. Today, there's literally nothing left of her fame. Mariska's two-hour film opened amid bulldozed rubble. The house, sold to pay Jayne's debts after her death aged 34 in 1967, has been demolished. Even the heart-shaped swimming pool is gone. Her second husband, Mickey, a Hungarian circus performer and bodybuilder, adored her. But she carved a trail of wreckage through the lives of everyone she loved, and the predominant mood of the recollections was not of celebration but of sadness, regret and loss. Three of her children — including Mariska, who was fortunately too young to remember it — were in the back seat of Jayne's car when she was killed in a head-on collision with a truck. Her latest boyfriend, the lawyer who handled her third divorce, died with her. Mariska, herself a successful actress and star of the long-running Law And Order: Special Victims Unit crime serial, insisted she'd spent her life avoiding lurid gossip about her mother's life. But Jayne was addicted to the lurid, revelling in it. As a 21-year-old hopeful in Hollywood, she realised her dreams of serious acting were holding her back when she auditioned as Joan of Arc for the head of casting at Paramount Studios. Mariska Hargitay at the 'My Mom Jayne: A Film By Mariska Hargitay' premiere during the 2025 Tribeca Festival at Carnegie Hall last month in New York City 'He just seemed to think that I was wasting my 'obvious talents',' she giggled, and soon she was posing topless for Playboy. Success did come, with a Broadway stage role and a couple of hit movies. But when her career hit the skids, she was willing to do anything to stay in the public eye — including nude scenes and seedy nightclub shows. This two-hour biography didn't attempt to analyse why Jayne so craved attention. Her father died when she was three, which helps to explain why she first married at 17, but patently she was trying to fill a deeper void. In the final half-hour, the film took a shocking twist as Mariska revealed that Mickey Hargitay wasn't her biological father. In fact, she was born after Jayne's brief fling with a Vegas crooner, Nelson Sardelli. Mariska confronted her mother's former press secretary, 99-year-old Rusty Strait, implying he has exploited her memory. But surely Jayne wouldn't have it any other way.
