Vero amore! These celebrities had their hearts stolen by Italians

Many stars choose Italy as the backdrop for their weddings, but some of them go one step further and... choose an Italian as their partner! This is the case of Jessica Chastain, for example, who married the Italian aristocrat Gian Luca Passi di Preposulo in 2017.

The protagonist of 'Avatar' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy' has been married to the Italian artist Marco Perego since 2013. A curious fact: each of them adopted the surname of the other.

There was also an Italian love for Lana del Rey. The singer was linked for almost a year to photographer and director Francesco Carrozzini. He's the son of the director of Vogue Italia, Franca Sozzani.

Bella Thorne and Benjamin Mascolo took their fans by surprise when they announced their breakup after getting engaged only a few months earlier. The Italian singer and the American actress had been together for three years.

More than a decade has passed since Elisabetta Canalis made headlines as the girlfriend of a big Hollywood star: George Clooney. The two were in a relationship from 2009 to 2011. Now, of course, George Clooney is with the British/Lebanese Amal Alamuddin.

Much longer than Clooney's Italian love was the marriage between British star Colin Firth and Italian producer Livia Giuggioli. The two were married for 22 years. In 2018, things went south after she admitted to cheating on him with an Italian journalist.

Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci met on the set of the film 'The Apartment' in 1996. It was love at first sight. For 17 years they were the protagonists of one of the biggest love stories in the film industry.

It was a dream, the story between Anne Hathaway and Raffaello Follieri, until it became a nightmare when the Italian businessman was arrested for fraud.

Martin Scorsese and Isabella Rossellini were married in secret in 1979 at the Castle of Odescalchi in Bracciano, with a ceremony attended by only a few close friends, including her mother - the great Ingrid Bergman - and her brothers.

They first met over dinner in November 2007 and were married three months later. The Italian model/singer Carla Bruni and the French politician (at some point President) Nicolas Sarkozy have been inseparable ever since.

Married since 2005, Willem Dafoe and Giada Colagrande met on the set of Wes Anderson's movie 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.' The American actor, a four-time Oscar nominee, and the Italian director now have dual citizenship - in Italy and the United States.

For five turbulent years, supermodel Naomi Campbell was linked to the entrepreneur Flavio Briatore. Now, the two are bound by a strong friendship: "If today at two in the morning I would need her for any reason, I know she would answer the phone right away," Briatore told 'Chi.' "This is Naomi away from the spotlight: a woman with a big heart."

Olivia Wilde was only 19 years old when she married Tao Ruspoli in 2008. He was a rebellious aristocrat of the Ruspoli family and stayed in the American actress's heart for eight years.

There is no shortage of Italian love stories, especially when we go back in time. Think, for example, of the romance between the legendary James Dean and the beautiful Anna Maria Pierangeli in 1954. She was known in Hollywood under the name of Pier Angeli and would be one of the first Italian actresses to establish herself in America. They had a tormented love, above all because the actress's family opposed the relationship.

Showbiz magazines had a blast when the great Hollywood star Ava Gardner and the Bolognese comedian and actor Walter Chiari were an item. Their love lasted for four years and was among the most covered by the paparazzi in history.

Andrea Dotti, a psychiatrist and university professor, stole Audrey Hepburn's heart during a cruise in Greece. The two initially kept their story hidden, until Audrey divorced her husband. They got married a few months later, in 1969, and remained together for 13 years.