Alessandra Mussolini, a former actress and model who now sits in the European Parliament, wasn't pleased with the 'Dumb and Dumber' star's graphic comic depicting her grandfather, Benito Mussolini, being publicly hanged.
Alessandra Mussolini holds a rally on May 15, 2014 in Livorno, Italy. By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow April 1 at 5:50 AM Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, is engaged in a bitter feud with Jim Carrey, the actor best known for the likes of “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” and “Dumb and Dumber.” No, this is not an April Fools’ Day joke, and yes, the Internet is to blame.
More than 83,000 people had liked the picture as of early Monday morning. Alessandra Mussolini, a former movie actress and Playboy cover model who is a member of the European parliament, wasn’t one of them.[A short history of Jim Carrey’s burgeoning career as an anti-Trump political cartoonist] President @realDonaldTrump doesn't have to worry about poor @JimCarrey politica attacks; his drawings are only dirty paper
Her campaign was backed by die-hard fascists, and some elderly men who attended her campaign speeches broke into tears and gave the fascist salute. But she also declared herself to be a supporter of democracy, insisting that she hated the word “fascism.” Ultimately, Mussolini’s mayoral campaign, which focused on pledging to root out graft, was unsuccessful. But for the next decade, she continued to win reelection to Italy’s Parliament, joining the National Alliance Party when it succeeded the Italian Social Movement and telling reporters in 1994 that fascism had been “a very important part of history that can no longer be demonized or canceled out.
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