Vanessa Hessler

Vanessa Hessler ( born January 21, 1988 in Rome) is an Italian model and actress.

Life and career

Hessler is the child of Italian Gabriella and the US-American John Hessler. She lived together with her four brothers in Rome until she was eight years old, and then moved to Washington, DC, the birthplace of her father.

In 2002 she returned to Italy as a model. In Germany Hessler was known from 2004 as the advertising character actress Alice in an advertising campaign of the Internet service provider HanseNet. As a model she worked for designer Calvin Klein and Giorgio Armani and worked there with, among others Claudia Schiffer, Meg Ryan and Fiona May. In the Italian film Natale a Miami (2005) and in Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008), she appeared as an actress. On the Sanremo Festival in 2006, she hosted.

In October 2011, Vanessa Hessler said in an interview that she had been four years with Mutassim Gaddafi, one of the sons of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, romantically involved; she described the family Gaddafi in an interview than normal people. Telefónica Germany, the owner of the Alice brand, distanced themselves from their made ​​in this context remarks about the former Gaddafi regime and solved working with her with immediate effect.