Simonetta, You're Alive to me, Simonetta...

Hey, at least she didn't die in a car crash with Mark Paul Gosselaar and Stephanie from Full House. I think this is why you don't take sides against the family.

First, she was killed in a bomb blast as Apollonia, the Sicilian wife of Al Pacino, in the 1972 film "The Godfather." Then in 2006 she was pronounced dead of cancer at the age of 51 in Internet reports that persist to this day. But Italian actress Simonetta Stefanelli, who was 17 when she captivated audiences with her dark Mediterranean looks in the gangster classic, said reports of her premature death are, to borrow a phrase, greatly exaggerated.

[Newsday]