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Scribbled on a promo shot slid beneath Sly Stallone's Manhattan hotel door, the fateful note read: ''My name is Brigitte Nielsen.... I'd really like to meet you. Here's my number.'' That night, the star -- a divorcing father of two -- called, then came over. As the statuesque Danish actress gazed at him, he said simply, ''I've got to get to know you better.''
On Dec. 15, 1985, the Rocky IV and future Cobra costars -- she 22 and he 39 -- were wed at the Beverly Hills home of Stallone's Rocky producer and longtime pal, Irwin Winkler. As the Righteous Brothers performed, ''we danced the night away,'' Winkler recalls. ''At the time, they were...very much in love.''
Then, after a time, they weren't. After 19 months of marriage, Stallone filed for divorce. One rumor had Nielsen using him to advance her career; another had her sleeping with her female secretary (both denied the allegation). The platinum Dane, one of 1987's most gossiped-about women, soon fled to Italy. ''Stallone closed every door in Hollywood,'' says Nielsen's manager, Steven Tempone. (Stallone's office had no comment.)
Once burned, Stallone married model Jennifer Flavin, his third wife (and mother of his 1-year-old daughter), in May, after nine years of on-and-off dating.
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