All About Sylvester Stallone’s Late Mom Jackie Stallone

Jackie Stallone may be best known as the mother of actors Sylvester Stallone and Frank Stallone Jr., but she also had an exciting career of her own.

She has taken on many different roles throughout her life, including a psychic, a wrestling manager and even a reality star. When Jackie died on September 21, 2020, at the age of 98, she left a lasting legacy.

Frank announced the news of her death, sharing a touching tribute on Instagram. “This morning my brothers and I lost our mother Jackie Stallone,” he wrote in the caption. “She died in her sleep as she wanted. It was hard not to love her, she was a very eccentric and flamboyant person.”

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Throughout her life, Jackie was regularly in the press and participated in many talk shows, including The Howard Stern Show and The Graham Norton Show.

After her death, Stern remembered Jackie fondly, saying, “She was one of the greats of our show … one of those people who would walk into a room and immediately have fun. I know the boys loved her very much.”

Sylvester and his brother have spoken openly about their sometimes difficult childhoods due to their parents’ busy careers and how they mended their relationship with Jackie as adults. Paying tribute to their mother, Frank wrote: “My brother Sylvester looked after her like a queen all her life.”

From her career to parenting, here’s everything you need to know about Sylvester Stallone’s mother Jackie Stallone.

She was married three times and had four children

Jackie Stallone, Frank Stallone, Sylvester Stallone and Frank Stallone Sr.

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Jackie’s first husband was Italian barber Frank Stallone Sr. Together they had two children, Sylvester and Frank.

After their divorce in the late 1950s, Jackie married Anthony Filiti and together they had a daughter, Toni Ann D’Alto, who died in 2012 of lung cancer.

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That same year, Sylvester’s 36-year-old son Saga also died of health problems. “She’s too young to go, but she didn’t feel any pain,” Jackie said New York Daily News by Toni Ann. “What a terrible month. First Sage and now Toni. It’s hard. At least they’re together in heaven now.”

Jackie and Filiti also divorced, and she remarried her last husband Stephen Levine in 1998 – the couple were married until her death.

Frank Jr.’s Instagram tribute to his mother included a mention of fourth child, Tommy.

She had a stormy relationship with Sylvester and Frank

Sylvester Stallone and his mother Jackie Stallone. E. Charbonneau/WireImage

In his 2023 Netflix documentary CunningSylvester said he was born with his “snarl” because his mother went into labor while riding a bus, causing him partial facial paralysis.

“Even though she was nine months pregnant, she was constantly riding the bus,” he said in the film. “She [went] in labour. Someone was smart enough to throw her off the bus, so they took her to the humanitarian department. And there I came into the world with this accident that somehow paralyzed all the nerves on the side of my mouth. So I was born with this growl.”

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Later in the documentary, Sylvester and Frank also recalled their parents’ turbulent relationship. “I’d be up in bed and I’d just hear them screaming and yelling,” Frank said in the film. The brothers spent much of their youth living in boarding houses instead of at home.

“Most of the time I lived in a boarding house,” Sylvester said in the documentary, “mostly 12 months a year, I never went home, because they just didn’t have time, they were both working.”

Frank also recalled growing up in a boarding house, saying, “I think they were both so caught up in their own things that they just pawned us off.” Later in life, the relationship between Jackie and her sons improved and the family grew closer.

She was an astrologer

Jackie Stallone.

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Jackie was an astrologer and, according to The Hollywood Reporter, she even had her own psychic phone for a while. In 1989, she published Star Power: An Astrological Guide to Supersuccess. The book not only provided astrological advice, but also offered Jackie’s personal readings of celebrities such as Madonna, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor.

Sylvester even gave his blessing to the book, providing promotional text. “My wonderful, extraordinary, indomitable, unpredictable mother,” he wrote. “Given that she has successfully predicted every major event in my life through her incredible mastery of the ancient art of astrology, I can say that this is one mom who truly knows best.”

One of Jackie’s specialties was practicing what she called “rumpology,” which she herself defined as the practice of looking into the bumps, wrinkles, and crevices of someone’s backside to gain insight into their personality traits and potential future.

In the performance at the 1999 So Graham Norton, the host asked Jackie about the method, and she replied, “It’s the one thing you can take with you and never leave at home. You can leave your arm at home, your leg at home, do you ever see someone walking around without a butt?”

Jackie remained physically active until her death

Jackie Stallone and Frank Stallone.

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Fitness was incredibly important to Jackie. Not only did she have her own exercise show on local television in the Washington area, but according to USA Todayshe eventually opened a women-only gym in town called Barbellas.

In early 1986, Jackie began appearing in a series of Richard Simmons workout videos, Richard Simmons and the Silver Foxes. The show would have Simmons working out with celebrity parents to encourage seniors to exercise.

In the videos, Jackie was joined by Harry Hoffman (Dustin Hoffman’s father), Sal Pacino (Al Pacino’s father) and Pauline Fawcett (Farrah Fawcett’s mother).

She was the manager for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW)

Jacqueline Stallone stands in the ring on May 4, 1988 in Los Angeles, CA.

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Long before SHINE became a hit series on Netflix, Jackie lived the real thing. She was a promoter, manager and house mother of “good girls”.

After her death, GLOW wrestler Angelina Altishin (aka Little Egypt) mourned Jackie’s death on X (formerly Twitter). “Oh my heart broke to hear about #JackieStallone’s passing. I’m 98 years young and still doing pilates when we last spoke,” she wrote. “What a fire she would light in me every time we got together. She was not only the mother of @TheSlyStallone, she was also our good manager at #glow.”

She was a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother

Jacqueline Stallone.

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In 2005, Jackie was a contestant on the third season of the show Celebrity Big Brother in the United Kingdom. Her sudden entry into the house was shocking and iconic for viewers because one of the contestants who was already in the house was Brigitte Nielsen, ex-wife of her son Sylvester.

Although Jackie was only in the house for a week before her eviction, she quickly became a fan favorite thanks to her bombastic and over-the-top behavior. All the time in the house, she asked Big Brother for champagne and wine at dinner and a harpist to play for the contestants.

She died at the age of 98

Sylvester Stallone, son Saga Stallone and mother Jackie Stallone at the premiere of “True Lies” Westwood on July 12, 1994.

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Jackie died on September 21, 2020 at the age of 98. The news was first broken by her son Frank who announced her death on Instagram. He shared a collection of photos from Jackie’s life and wrote: “She was an extraordinary woman who worked every day full of courage and fearlessness.” He concluded by saying: “We all loved her and her spirit [sic] survive and overcome. I’ll always miss you mom.”

Other celebrities also mourned Jackie’s death, including former daughter-in-law and A celebrity Big Brother competitor, Nielson. The actress posted a photo of the two of them together on Instagram, writing: “Extremely strong, full of energy and a very unique woman in so many ways, until the very end. I am filled with emotions because now you are gone and I didn’t get to say goodbye. We will surely miss you. Rest in peace dear Jackie.”

Jackie left behind her husband and sons, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

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