Overview

• She died in a Madrid nursing home at 81 after a health decline that led to her admission to a Majadahonda care facility in 2018.
• Her career spanned acting, frontline correspondence and investigative journalism for outlets including RAI, El Mundo, The Guardian, Il Giornale, Marie Claire and Oggi.
• She authored notable and often controversial books such as A solas con Arafat (1997), Yo, puta. Hablan las prostitutas (2001) and Trilogía de perversos (1995), as well as the investigative work Yo terrorista.
• She reported from Palestine, Lebanon, Chad, Iraq, Bosnia and Somalia and was reportedly the only journalist present at the 1993 bombings in Mosul and Basra.
• Her personal history included a marriage to composer Waldo de los Ríos, whose 1977 suicide informed her 2002 memoir El amado fantasma, and a well-known relationship with Yasser Arafat.