Highlight
- Sylvester Stallone has been married three times.
- His first, eldest son died due to heart disease.
- Jennifer Flavin his 3rd wife filed for divorce.
- He rose as a great star after the success of the Rockey movie.
His early years represent truly days of hard work, perseverance, and determination. He struggled a lot in his early days to get a good role but he got little to no success: in most cases, he got cast as an uncredited extra.
After 4 years, he got some recognition in The Lords of Flatbush for his role and global success was achieved when he starred in his first blockbuster movie, named Rocky: the story of a small-time club fighter, who wishes to do a heavyweight boxing world champion.
This Rocky movie made him so famous that the movie had been starred at the box office as the no.1 file for 6 consecutive years.
However, rocky is not the only movie which had seen so much success, his other movies such as Rambo saga, and First Blood. From then, till late-90, he established himself as one of highest paid actors in Hollywood
He is best known for his acting and he has served as producer, director, and writer for several movies
Early life
Sylvester Stallone is an American Filmmaker and actor. His birth name was Micheal Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, born in July 1946.
His father, Francesco Stallone, was a Beautician and hairdresser, who was Italian, and his mother, Jacqueline Stallone was an astrologer, dancer, and promoter of women’s wrestling, who was French.
Soon after his birth, her mother labor got paralyzed because of which, Sylvester was bullied In his school times.
He is a Baptized catholic and his father in early 1950, moved to Washington, D.C. to start a beauty school and later, in 1954, a women’s gym named Barbella’s was opened by his mother.
Education
As he was bullied for her mother’s appearance and speaking due to paralysis, his inclination, from his school days, was towards the gym and acting.
He joined Notre Dame Academy and attended Lincoln High School as well as Charlotte Hall Military Academy, before attending Miami Dade College.
Then, he went to Switzerland to study at the American College of Switzerland and after completion, he returned to United State to study Drama at the In University of Miami.
His personal life
Sylvester has been married 3 times. His first wife was Sasha Czack, with whom he had two sons but unfortunately, his eldest son died due to heart disease at the age of 36 and his younger son has been diagnosed with autism at a very early age.
However, Sylvester and Sasha took divorced in 1985 and later he married actress and model Brigitte Nielsen 1985. However, their relationship could not last long for a long time and after two years, they both took divorced and this topic was greatly publicized.
After spending a long time alone, he married Jennifer Flavin in 1997, with whom he had three daughters, the eldest daughter is Sophia, the middle one is Sistine and the younger one is Scarlet.
He also maintained a good relationship with his brother Frank and Frank contributed many theme songs to the movie of Sylvester. Some of the movies are Rambo: First Blood part II and Staying Alive.
Frank also played some minor roles in the movie and played a street corner singer and contributed the songs.
In 2007, an Australian court found him guilty and the same had been accepted by Stallone for possessing synthetic growth hormone Jintropin in his luggage.
He is the recipient of the heart of Hollywood award from the board of governors in 2016.
After 25 years of marriage, Jennifer Flavin filed for divorce and other reliefs on 19 august, 2022, and court records say her marriage is irretrievably broken.