The actor and also film director lived one of the saddest personal episodes at the height of his fame in Hollywood.

Complaints and accusations, false or not, are common currency in the lives of Hollywood artists. However, the fact that your own family, your own blood, tries to take you to trial is something rarely seen and very painful. Sylvester Stallone can attest to all this , the renowned and successful actor who achieved worldwide fame in the 80s but who also experienced a true hell when he was denounced by his half-sister

It was the mid-1980s, and the New York actor had already made the films that launched him to stardom and placed him as a figure in action movies of all time: “Rocky” and “Rambo”, when he received the news “ bomb”.

In 1987, Toni-Ann Filiti, her sister on her mother’s side, publicly accused her of physical and psychological abuse.

 The news reached gigantic proportions and the artist’s advisors showed him their concern that the issue would go to trial, even if the verdict were in favor of Silvester Stallone and he ended up exempt from all guilt.

SYLVESTER STALLONE HAD TO PAY MILLIONS AFTER BEING SUED BY HIS HALF-SISTER TONI-ANN FOR ABUSE

Faced with this scenario, the actor decided to take the matter to conciliation in order to avoid a trial that was clearly going to be high-profile in the media and that could seriously compromise the reputation and career of the current film producer.

As revealed by “The New York Post”, the silence of Toni-Ann, who died in 2012 from lung cancer, cost Stallone millions of dollars.

According to the aforementioned media, the John Rambo interpreter agreed to pay his stepsister two million dollars plus a monthly payment of more than 16 thousand dollars for life. 

But that would not have been all, since the settlement included an annual sum of $50,000 for psychiatric and medical expenses, which Toni-Ann was to receive as a result of the alleged abuse she received.

In court documents to which the United States newspaper had access, Filiti “claimed that he had suffered personal injury, including physical harm” at the hands of Stallone, who “strongly denied and continues to deny and refute all allegations . ”

SYLVESTER STALLONE’S MOTHER REVEALS THAT SYLVESTER STALLONE WAS EXTORTED BY HIS HALF-SISTER

Some time later, their mother, Jacqueline Stallone, took sides with her son and asserted that “ this was nothing more than extortion.

 “Toni-Ann was on daily treatment with 65 oxytocin pills (a hormone used in psychiatric treatments) and threatened Sylvester . ”

“A drug addict would do anything. When Sylvester became famous, he didn’t have to take the bait. He was trying to help her.

 “He collapsed ,” the mother of both of them continued. It is worth noting that Jacqueline had the actor in her first engagement, and it was with her second husband that she gave birth to Toni-Ann.

“There were too many conflicting stories. At that time (in 1987) he was at the top and his lawyers told him: ‘Give him something just to keep him quiet,’” the celebrity’s mother pointed out.

WHO WAS THE BOXER WHO INSPIRED SYLVESTER STALLONE TO CREATE THE STORY OF “ROCKY”?

At the beginning of the 70s, Sylvester Stallone had had brief participations in some productions, but he was looking for more. 

That’s how he started writing scripts , but the idea of ​​starring in a movie kept him awake, so much so that he went to the casting of “The Godfather” for the roles of Carlo Rizzi and Paulie Gatto, which he didn’t get.

Thus, and in search of putting together a script that would have an impact and allow him to make his first film, Stallone witnessed the fight between American boxers Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner. For the full story, GO HERE .

SYLVESTER STALLONE AND WHAT HE EARNED DURING HIS FIRST TWO SEASONS AS ROCKY BALBOA

There are endless similarities and coincidences between the personal life of Stallone and the character “Rocky”, since both have fought tirelessly against all odds to be able to establish themselves as absolute world figures, both in reality and in fiction.

In fact, Stallone himself confesses that before the popular story of the boxer was released, he already saw himself as the protagonist of what, in the end, would be one of the great cinematographic works of all time.

 However, the producers had their doubts about it and that was reflected in the salary he received for the first deliveries. LOOK HERE at the modest sum he won.