Screen legend Gina Lollobrigida, the former sex symbol once billed as the world's most beautiful woman, has died at the age of 95, her family said Monday. On her 95th birthday on July 4, Lollobrigida told ANSA she was determined to stay creative with the photography and art projects she turned to after her decades as a sex symbol.

The 'Bersagliera' of Italian cinema, a soubriquet given her after an iconic feisty role, said "my birthday is a nice milestone and I'm still working. "I'm preparing a book (of drawings) filled with sanguines (a red flower), sketches in red ochre, it's an important work, demanding."