- Warning: spoilers ahead for season one of Netflix's "Supersex."
- "Supersex" depicts the life of Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi from 1974 to 2004.
- Here's where Siffredi is now.
Netflix's latest biopic "Supersex" is a fictional re-telling of the life of Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi.
It follows him from his childhood in Ortona, Italy, to winning his first Hot D'or, the adult film industry's equivalent of an Oscar, to his retirement.
It isn't a totally faithful retelling.
Siffredi, whose real name is Rocco Antonio Tano, told The Independent that the new series is roughly 70% accurate.
Although Siffredi is still alive, the series ends with his first retirement from the porn industry in 2004.
Both in the show and real life, Siffredi announced that he was retiring from on-screen sex while at a porn industry convention in Paris. However, Siffredi continued to work in the porn industry after the announcement.
Here's what Siffredi has been up to since.
Rocco Siffredi has two children. Neither is a porn star.
In the series finale, Siffredi (played by Alessandro Borghi) meets Rosza Tassi (Nutsa Khubulava), a Hungarian model and actor, in Cannes, France, in 1994.
Siffredi persuades Tassi to be in his next porn movie, an X-rated version of "The Bodyguard." The pair bond and appear to be dating at the end of the episode.
In real life, Rosza Tassi and Siffredi met in 1993 at an erotic festival at Cannes, according to the Spanish magazine El Mundo. They starred in porn films, with Rosza performing under the name Rosa Caracciolo.
The pair later married and had two sons, Lorenzo, 27, and Leonardo, 24. Siffredi and Tassi live in Budapest, Hungary. Siffredi's base for his production company is also in Budapest.
Leonardo Tano is an athlete and part-time model. According to Adult Video News (AVN), a magazine for the porn industry, Lorenzo Tano is running his father's company now.
Siffredi has retired from porn a few times.
After his first retirement, Siffredi became a director and producer in the porn industry. But he returned to his performer role in 2009, telling AVN that he decided to slow down rather than leave the industry completely.
"I spoke with my wife and she said it's my problem only, it doesn't belong to her and the boys," he said. "And she said, 'You decide to stop, we never ask you. So if you want to go back, just go back.' And since I come back I've probably had the best time since five years, since when I was stopping."
Siffredi went on to quit porn twice more.
In 2015, Siffredi announced he was retiring again from on-camera sex after appearing on "L'isola dei famosi," an Italian version of the TV series "Survivor."
"Today I can see, my wife, she is the top priority. And that is why I made this decision," Siffredi said in a statement to media outlets. "She deserves to have what she wanted from day one, to be with only me without sharing with other girls."
In the same year, Siffredi began training aspiring porn actors and created "Siffredi Hard Academy," a reality show that documented his teaching.
He later appeared in porn videos again.
In 2022, Siffredi told XBiz, a porn news website, that he was stepping away again from performing but refused to confirm if he was retiring.
"I don't say 'I'm retiring' anymore," he said.
In February, Siffredi told Variety that he would only work behind the camera from now on.
"I don't know if it was dependency or just desire. But I swear, it's over," he said.
Outside porn, Siffredi has made small appearances in European TV series and movies such as "Natale a 5 stelle" and "Matrimonio a Parigi."
In 2016, Siffredi opened up about his sex addiction.
In 2016, "Rocco," an in-depth documentary about Siffredi's life and career, premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
In the movie, Siffredi said he has struggled with sex addiction, referring to his penis as "the devil between my legs."
While promoting the documentary, Siffredi told The Daily Beast that he began having sex with hookers, trans women, and older women after he quit being a porn performer in 2004. He also said he also had sex with a man at a sauna in France.
"I started to see hookers every day," he said. "I didn't figure out that I was addicted to sex."
Siffredi said in "Rocco" that he was free from the addiction after 30 years.
Disclosure: Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, is a Netflix board member.
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