An American model who has appeared in ads for Calvin Klein, Giorgio
Armani and L'Oreal lost her biggest client Monday after she defended
boyfriend Mutassim Gadhafi and the Gadhafi family in an interview with Italian media.
Vanessa Hessler, a blonde, long-legged 23-year-old Italian-American
model, said that she had shared a "very beautiful love story" of four
years with Mutassim Gadhafi, the 36-year-old son and heir of Libyan
dictator Moammar Gadhafi who died with his father in a last stand
outside the Libyan city of Sirte on Oct. 21.
Hessler also said that the West had made a mistake in backing the rebels
who ended Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year reign. "We, France and the United
Kingdom, financed the rebels but people don't know what they are doing,"
Hessler told Italian magazine Diva e Donna, adding that she is
disgusted by what is happening in Libya and that "the Gaddafi family is
not how they are being depicted, they are normal people."
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On Monday, Telefonica Germany fired Hessler from a job that had made her
instantly recognizable to television viewers across Germany, France and
Italy. For several years, Hessler had been known to the public as
"Alice," the onscreen spokeswoman for the company's "Alice" internet
service, but Telefonica declared an immediate end to the relationship
with a Tweet. Telefonica said the model's romantic relationships were
"private business," but the company "cannot accept her comments on the
Libya conflict."
Hessler's Facebook page,
however, has been flowing with messages of support from her fans
congratulating her on her "courage and honesty". One fan consoled her on
her firing with a picture that reads: "Stand for what is right even if you stand alone."
The model was born to an American father and an Italian mother and spent much of her formative years in Washington, D.C.
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