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He started his career with porn, sold his dog due to poverty, and the movie 'Rocky' saved his life!

Sylvester Stallone had to give up a pet to buy himself food, and today he is worth around $ 400 million. He was constantly turned down at auditions, but then he wrote the screenplay for ‘Rocky’. The rest is history ...

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Jul 6, 2021 - 05:03

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He started his career with porn, sold his dog due to poverty, and the movie 'Rocky' saved his life!

Actor Sylvester Stallone is celebrating his 75th birthday today, July 6th. He is a man of inspiring life stories, known for his rise from the homeless to a world-famous movie star.

The son of an emigrant of Italian descent, Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, was born on this day in 1946. Sylvester was born with paralysis of the lower left jaw, which in the early years of his fantasies about becoming an actor was an insurmountable obstacle at any audition.

In the early 1990s, Stallone was going through a difficult period in his life. He lived in poverty and out of desperation accepted a role in an erotic film, and the honorarium saved him from sleeping at the bus terminal.

- Sadness, worry, fear, uncertainty. I had to sell the dog too, that was the worst thing for me. Anyone who has had or has a dog knows what I’m talking about. I sold it for $ 40 because I just had to buy food, ” the actor said.

After two weeks, he watched a boxing match between Mohammed Ali and Chuck Wepner and that inspired him to write the screenplay for the famous film ‘Rocky’. He wrote it in 20 hours. He tried to sell it and was offered $ 125,000. But he had one condition - he wanted the lead role, but the studio turned him down.

He turned down a large sum of money for the script because the role was not offered to him. After lengthy negotiations, for a small sum, the production house agreed to buy out the script and give Stallone the lead role.

The film won three Oscars, and Stallone was nominated for Best Actor.

His most famous films are the sequels to ‘Rocky’ and ‘Rambo’, which made him one of the most prominent film action heroes of the late last century.

Sylvester has been married three times, and with his last wife Jennifer Flavin, 52, he is still married. He has a total of five children, two sons, and three daughters, and all of their names start with the letter 'S', as does his.

By: Olivia J. - Gossip Whispers