Claudio Tano was one of Rocco Siffredi’s older brothers. The boy died at the age of 12 due to an epileptic seizure in his sleep, which suffocated him. A painful loss for the porn actor and for the entire family, especially for his mother Carmela, who was never able to grieve.
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Claudio Tano he was one of the brothers Of Rocco Siffrediwho suffocated in his sleep due to a epileptic crisis. She was 12 years old. Mourning profoundly marked the life of the well-known porn actor, told in the series Supersex, available on Netflix from March 6 and starring Alessandro Borghi. Resident in the small town of Ortona, the Tano family is made up of parents Carmela and Gennaro and six children, of which Rocco is the penultimate. “Mom never looked at me, I counted to ten and yet she didn’t turn around“, he says in the series, underlining how the attention completely paid to his unfortunate brother Claudio was a significant emotional step, which affected his relationships and the consequent (in)ability to love.
The story of Claudio Tano, Rocco Siffredi’s brother
Rocco Siffredi, born Rocco Tano, comes from a large family: his parents, mother Carmela, a housewife, and father Gennaro, a carpenter by profession, and five brothers. One of these, Claudio, he died at just 12 years old because of one epileptic seizure in sleep. The boy had been suffering from epilepsy for some time but, as the porn actor said in an interview with Corriere della Sera, his condition worsened “when he took it at two years old an iron club to the head from another child”. This aspect of Siffredi’s life is also told in the series Supersexwith extreme delicacy and realism: in the first episodes we see Claudio wearing a helmet, to protect his head after the blow inflicted with a club by a boy from the Roma community who lived in shacks near the council houses of Ortona. “The gypsies”, as they are defined by Rocco and his brothers, profoundly distant from them and in constant conflict over sharing the territory.
From left: Tommaso, Claudio and Rocco Tano in the Supersex series
How Claudio Tano died, the story of his illness
Claudio Tano died when Rocco was only 6 years old. His death was caused by an epileptic seizure in his sleep, which suffocated him. A loss that forever changed the life of the well-known actor and his family, in particular his mother Carmela, who was never able to grieve. “My mother also put food on the table for my brother Claudio who was no longer here. My father asked her to stop but she was sure he would return”Siffredi said in an interview on the program You and me at night by Pierluigi Diaco. “When I ate and had habits that I still have today, like putting the tomato on the side on the plate, my mother would take the plate and smash it on my head. She got angry, she bit my arms. But I looked at her very calmly and thought about how much she was suffering.”he then added.
Although he was only a child, Siffredi remembers with extreme clarity the moment in which he discovered the death of his brother Claudio: he was in kindergarten and one of his neighbors came to pick him up to take him home. “I hear the screams outside the house, my mother screaming. So I go up to the house, I see that everyone was holding my mother and my brother was lying on the bed already dead. I go into my room, I don’t understand anything: there were all the birthday balloons, I pop them all. From then on I remember my life”has explained.
