A Huge Loss for Star Sylvester Stallone! He Was Not Expecting This News

American star Sylvester Stallone is going through a difficult day today after receiving the news that his mother, Jackie Stallone, has passed away. She became known as an astrologer and as a promoter of the women’s wrestling circuit GLOW, being among the people who helped it get broadcast by major television networks.

Jackie Stallone, the mother of Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone, a television personality and renowned astrologer, died on Monday at the age of 98, BBC reports, according to Agerpres.

Jackie, an eccentric woman with a strong personality, who made a name for herself as an astrologer and promoter of the women’s wrestling circuit, “died in her sleep, just as she wanted,” revealed her youngest son, singer Frank Stallone, in a message posted on social media.

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Jackie Stallone, the mother of Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone, a television personality and renowned astrologer, died on Monday at the age of 98, BBC reports, according to Agerpres.

Jackie, an eccentric woman with a strong personality, who made a name for herself as an astrologer and promoter of the women’s wrestling circuit, “died in her sleep, just as she wanted,” revealed her youngest son, singer Frank Stallone, in a message posted on social media.

“It was hard not to like her, she was a very eccentric and flamboyant person. Her mind remained sharp as a razor until the day she died,” he added.

Jackie, whose real name was Jacqueline Frances Labofish, was born on November 29, 1921, and ran away from her home in Washington at the age of 15 to join a circus troupe.

“My father, who was a wealthy lawyer, wanted me to study law, but I wanted to be on stage,” she revealed in an interview for The Times in 2005.

Jackie worked as a trapeze artist for two years before becoming a chorus singer in Broadway shows.

She married her first husband, Frank Stallone Sr., a barber and occasional actor, in 1945. They stayed together for 12 years and had two sons: actor Sylvester Stallone and musician Frank Stallone.

Jackie also had a daughter, Toni D’Alto, born during her second marriage, to Anthony Filiti. Toni D’Alto died of cancer in 2012 at the age of 48.

She was a promoter of women’s wrestling
A longtime supporter of women’s fitness, Jackie opened a gym dedicated exclusively to women in the 1950s, called Barbarella’s, and later presented fitness exercises on a TV show broadcast by a local station in Washington.

In the 1980s, she appeared and promoted the GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) wrestling program, which helped women’s wrestling get broadcast by major television networks. The origins of that organization were recently portrayed in a Netflix series, “Glow,” in which the main roles are played by Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin.

While her son Sylvester became famous in Hollywood thanks to movies such as the “Rambo” and “Rocky” franchises, Jackie Stallone stayed relatively out of the spotlight for some time, eventually becoming a celebrity in the 1990s thanks to her lifelong passion for astrology.

Guest on TV shows as an astrologer and medium
In 1989, she published the book “Star Power: An Astrological Guide to Supersuccess” and began appearing regularly on TV shows where she was invited as an astrologer and medium.

She later launched a parapsychology phone line and claimed to have invented the term “rumpology,” which refers to the art of predicting a person’s future by reading the lines and shapes of their buttocks.

She married her third husband, Stephen Devine, in 1998, but the two preferred to live in separate homes, located 16 kilometers apart, for most of their marriage.

“He preferred that we live together, but I had already done that for 20 years with my first two husbands, and it didn’t work,” she explained.

In 2005, Jackie Stallone was the protagonist of a memorable moment in the British version of the show “Celebrity Big Brother,” when she entered the house as a surprise guest.

Her arrival was a shock for her former daughter-in-law Brigitte Nielsen, with whom Jackie had a frosty relationship.

Jackie, who continued to lead an active lifestyle even after turning 90, practicing weightlifting and trapeze exercises, also tried to defy the effects of aging through numerous cosmetic surgeries, which she later said she regretted.

“In fact, I did too many (cosmetic surgeries). I look as if I have my mouth full of nuts… I feel like I look like a squirrel,” she said in an interview for Reveal magazine in 2013.