- Zadora was the subject of an anecdotal joke in the mid-1980s: Pia was supposedly playing the title role in a Broadway revival of The Diary of Anne Frank, and the reaction to her performance was such that, when Nazi soldiers come knocking at the door of the Frank family's hiding place, the audience starts chanting: "She's in the attic! She's in the attic!".
- After remarrying in 1995, she appeared on Broadway in "Crazy For You" to favorable reviews, but during this production, she suffered a miscarriage, retired from show business, divorced her second husband and began living with her first husband and father to her children on the grounds of the former Pickfair Estate in Beverly Hills.
- Arrested on charges she scratched and choked her autistic son after he refused to go to bed, which resulted in a SWAT standoff after he called police. The case against her was dismissed after she completed alcohol and impulse control counseling. Her husband, who was home at the time, was fired from his job as a deputy sheriff four months later for refusing to cooperate with police during the incident. He filed a lawsuit against the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and Clark County Sheriff Douglas C. Gillespie a year later claiming his constitutional rights had been violated. [June 1, 2013].
- Lives in Las Vegas with her third husband, a Las Vegas detective. She met her current husband after reporting a stalking incident to the Las Vegas Police.
- It was during a 1972 bus-and-truck production of "Applause" starring Alexis Smith that was touring in Ohio that Zadora met Meshulam "Rik" Riklis, a 49-year old corporate businessman. She was 17. Four years later they married.
- In addition to the several motion pictures he produced for Zadora while they were married, billionaire Meshulam Riklis also financed a one-hour TV special to showcase his wife's talents. Entitled Pia Zadora: Fiesta in Mexico, it featured aging Mexican movie star Julio Aleman as her "guest star." As part of his campaign to promote Pia for the Golden Globes, Riklis arranged for the special to air on Los Angeles independent TV station KTLA, where it drew an audience of about 17 people.
- Attended the American Academy of Dramatic Art while a child as a means of overcoming shyness.
- During their first decade, the Razzie Awards published a quarterly members' newsletter called The Razzie Reporter. Among the regular features was a column called Pia Watch, keeping voting Razzie Members up-to-date on the activities and projects of Zadora, a perennial "Razzie Repeat Offender.".
- She made her first records in the 1960s, which included "Bye Bye Boy", for which she was billed as "Little Pia".
- In 1990 she toured as an opening act for Frank Sinatra.
- Pia Zadora bought the Pickfair mansion in January 1988, only to have it demolished. The outside gate with a large letter "P" is all which remains of the original home.
Empty for several years after the death of Mary Pickford in 1979, Pickfair was eventually sold to Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who continued to care for the home, updating and preserving much of its unique charm.
In 1988, it was purchased by actress Pia Zadora and her then husband Meshulam Riklis, who then announced they were planning renovations to the famous estate, although revealed in 1990 they had, in fact, demolished Pickfair and a new larger "Venetian style palazzo" was going to be constructed in its place.
Later in 1990, the Los Angeles Times reported all but the guest wing and part of the living room had been razed.
Faced with harsh criticism from a nostalgic public, including Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Zadora defended her family's actions, stating the house was allegedly in a very poor state of repair and infested by termites.
In the L.A. Times, Fairbanks was quoted as saying, "I regret it very much. I wonder, if they were going to demolish it, why they bought it in the first place."
Remaining artifacts from the original Pickfair estate include the gates with a large letter "P", the kidney-shaped swimming pool and pool house, remnants of the living room, as well as the two-bedroom guest wing that played host to visiting royalty and notable film celebrities for over half a century. - Suffered head injuries and a broken ankle after falling from a golf cart being driven by her son. [September 11, 2014].
- Appeared in a Penthouse spread in 1983. The picture for her 1984 "Rock It Out" single was taken from this shoot.
- Played youngest daughter Bielke for two years in "Fiddler on the Roof" on Broadway (1964-1966).
- Her son's godfather is Don King.
- Stepson Michael Jeffries Jr. was convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a friend during an argument a party in October 2011. Jeffries faces 20 years to life in prison. [March 26, 2015].
- After she won the 1982 Golden Globe for New Star of the Year, Female - despite having made her film acting debut 17 years earlier - rumors swirled that then-husband Meshulam Riklis "bought" her the award. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association retired the category in 1983.
- She is of Italian origin by her father side (Calabria) and Polish by her mother side.
- She is often the subject of a popular urban legend that she once appeared in a theatrical production of The Diary of Anne Frank as the title character and her performance was so disliked that, when the Nazi's came on stage, an audience member shouted "she's in the attic!".
- Became the first thespian to "win" back-to-back RAZZIE Awards when she was named Worst Actress of 1982 for Butterfly (1981) and Worst Actress of 1983 for The Lonely Lady (1983) - thus making her the RAZZIE equivalent of Luise Rainer.
- In 1961, the six-year-old was selected by noted screen and stage actor Burgess Meredith to appear in the Broadway production of "Midgie Purvis" starring the one and only Tallulah Bankhead.
- Had a heart condition as a child.
- Children: Jordan Maxwell (13 April 1997) with Jonathan Kaufer; Kady Zadora (1 January 1985) and Kristopher Barzie (3 March 1987) with Meshulam Riklis.
- At the time when Zadora became the "ad girl" for the French wine-based aperitif, her first husband was a major shareholder of the American distributor for Dubonnet.
- She had a relatively successful singing career. She made pop and traditional vocal albums in the 80s. Her biggest hit in the U.S. was 1983's "The Clapping Song". She earned a Grammy nomination in 1984 with "Rock It Out" (for Female Rock performance) and also scored a worldwide hit with "When the Rain Begins to Fall", a duet with Jermaine Jackson. It was not a hit in the U.S., however. Among her albums: Pia (1982) and Let's Dance Tonight (1984), Pia & Phil (1985), I Am What I Am (1986), Reflections/Today (1988) and When the Lights Go Out (1988) and Pia Z (1989). She also had songs on the soundtracks to her films Butterfly (1981), Fake-Out (1982) and Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984). She went on to perform in Las Vegas, opening for such pop standard veterans as Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra and others.
- In 1984, her song "Rock It Out" earned a Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Among her fellow nominees: Lita Ford, Bonnie Tyler, Wendy O. Williams and eventual winner Tina Turner.
- Father, Alphonse Schipani, played violin in Broadway pit orchestras, and mother, Saturnina Zadorowski, was a theater wardrobe supervisor.
- Considered for the role of Evita Peron in Evita (1996).
- Attended a parochial school in Forest Hills, New York.
- Former stepmother of: Ira D.Riklis, Mona Ackerman and Marcia Riklis.
- Ex-sister-in-law of Scott Kaufer.
- Born on Tuesday.
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