Trivia

During the shooting of Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), director Tony Scott had an illicit affair with Brigitte, who was then married to Sylvester Stallone. The affair, which he describes as "horrendous", led to the break-up of Scott's second marriage to the commercials' producer Glynis Sanders.

Escaped death after canceling a flight on the plane which crashed at Milan's Linate airport. (October 2001).

While she acted in Domino (1988), she was pregnant, a pregnancy that she lost during the shooting of the film. The film was shut down for two weeks while she recovered.

Credits Flavor Flav with saving her life. She suffered a severe asthma attack one day, and Flavor Flav sprang into action, calling 911 and did his best to help keep her calm while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.

Ex-husband Sylvester Stallone was so "obsessed" with her appearance, he had her image carved into their furniture.

On Howard Stern's show, she said that she had a relationship with Arnold Schwarzenegger during the shooting of Red Sonja (1985).

Had her fifth child and first daughter, Frida, in June 2018 at 54.

When she was 10-years old, she got up every morning at 4:30 to deliver bread from the local bakery before she went to school.

Has five children, four sons and one daughter: Julian Winding (b. April 12, 1984 in Copenhagen) with her ex-first husband Kasper Winding; Killian Marcus Gastineau (b. December 15, 1989 in Scottsdale, Arizona) with her ex-fiancé Mark Gastineau; Douglas Aaron Meyer (b. April 19, 1993) and Raoul Meyer, Jr. (b. May 21, 1995) with her ex-fourth husband Raoul Meyer; a daughter Frida Dessi (b. June 22, 2018) with her fifth husband Mattia Dessì.

During the summer of 2008, she underwent six plastic surgeries, a facelift, eyelift, liposuction, breast lift and new teeth on live television for her German reality show: "Aus alt mach neu - Brigitte Nielsen in der Promi-Beauty-Klinik" (2008).

She speaks four languages: Danish, English, German and Italian.

According to the Guiness Book of World Records, she is the tallest living actress, 6' 1", in a leading role, along with Mariel Hemingway (Tamara Dobson was 6' 2", but she passed away in 2006).

Her real name, Gitte is pronounced Ghee-Te.

In summer 2006, she finally left Italy to live in the United States.

Received $6 million for her two-year marriage to actor Sylvester Stallone.

Dropped out of school at age 16 with her parents' permission to model in Paris.

The now bankrupt New World Studios hired her to pose for promotional photos highlighting the Marvel Comics character She-Hulk in 1989 to distribute as a possible movie. Though the pictures garnered much fan interest, they failed to produce interest in financial backers.

Married for the fifth time her boyfriend of 2 years, bartender Mattia Dessì (who is 15 years her younger), on July 8, 2006. They met in a restaurant in Lugano on April 12, 2004 and became engaged the same month. Ivana Trump was her maid of honor at her second marriage to Mattia Dessi. They first married in March 2005. The marriage was not official, because her divorce from her previous husband was not finalized.

She was rumored to have turned down $1M for spending a night with an Arab prince. (July 1997)

Has appeared in Flavor of Love (2006), the highest rated show in VH1's history.

In February 2005, she credited Flavor Flav with saving her life, when he dialed 911 as she suffered a severe morning asthma attack.

She is terrified by crabs.

On July 9, 2007, Nielsen checked herself into the Cri-Help rehabilitation facility in North Hollywood following what some reports claim was a family intervention.

Her favorite movies are A Beautiful Mind (2001) and I Am Sam (2001).

Engaged to Sylvester Stallone from April 1985 to December 1985, the month in which the two married.

She remains good friends with Flavor Flav.

She left her first husband and child in Denmark to find fame in America (1985).

Her father Svend (died in 1999) was an engineer. Her mother Hanne was a librarian.

She spoke to her former mother-in-law Jackie Stallone for the first time since 1987 after they both appeared as contestants on Celebrity Big Brother (2001) in January 2005.

Was engaged to New York Jets defensive end Mark Gastineau from January 1988 to April 1990.

She was briefly considered for these roles: Jane Porter in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), Maria Sofia of Austria in 'O re (1989), Gayle in Battle Queen 2020 (2001) and Fran in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). In order, the roles went to Andie MacDowell, Ornella Muti, Julie Strain and Missi Pyle.

Met her third husband Raoul Meyer three times before they married: the first time in 1980 but she was engaged to Luca Rossi, a famous Italian top-models boss, the second time in 1987 when she was divorced but Raoul was engaged, and the last time in May 1992, in their friend's villa on the lake of Como in Lombardia, Italy.

Lives in Palm Desert, California (2008).

Her third husband, the photographer/director Sebastian Copeland, is Orlando Bloom's cousin.

Her first apartment in Los Angeles belonged to actor Armand Assante.

She is no relation to fellow Danish actress Connie Nielsen.

She participated in some television shows in Denmark, Germany and Sweden.

Ex-sister-in-law of Danish directer Nicolas Winding Refn.

Released some dance music singles (titled "No More Turning Back" in 2000, "Tic Toc" in 2001, "You're No Lady" featuring the drag-queen RuPaul in summer 2002), but she used her real name Gitta.

Her manager was the American dancer David Buonantony.

In the United Kingdom, she participated on the reality show Celebrity Big Brother (2001). (January 2005)

Swam for many years when she was young.

In October 2009, she published in Scandinavia her first autobiography titled: "Gitte Nielsen - Du har kun ét liv - sådan fandt jeg tilbage til mig selv".

Brother Jan was born in 1965.

Ex-wife of Sylvester Stallone. Former stepmother to Sage Stallone and Seargeoh Stallone. Former sister-in-law of Frank Stallone Jr. Former daughter-in-law of Jackie Stallone and Frank Stallone Sr.

Lives in Swiss village by Lake Lugano.

Is a chat show host on Danish television.

Her father was an engineer and her mother a librarian.

She was tall by the age of 13.

Met former ski champ Raoul Meter when she was 18 then at 26 then the 3rd time they got married in 1993 had sons Killian born1991 and Douglas born 1994.