Overview

• Spanish outlets report she died in a geriatric residence in Majadahonda after a period of cognitive decline similar to Alzheimer’s disease.
• Accounts differ on her age and the year she entered the residence, with reports citing either 77 or 81 and admission in 2022 or from 2018.
• Pisano’s screen work included roles in Bigas Luna’s Bilbao, Federico Fellini’s Casanova and films by León Klimovsky, Diego Santillán and Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.
• As a reporter she covered conflicts in Palestine, Lebanon, Chad, Iraq, Bosnia and Somalia, with outlets noting she was the only journalist present at the 1993 bombings of Mosul and Basra.
• She wrote A solas con Arafat and Yo, puta—later adapted into a 2004 film—and received honors including a Spanish Ministry of Culture medal and ARI’s 2002 Journalist of the Year, while her personal life included marriage to Waldo de los Ríos and a relationship with Yasir Arafat.