US EditionMariska Hargitay Says Birth Father Was 'Thrilled' About 'My Mom Jayne' Doc
ATLANTIC CITY, JUN 26 – Mariska Hargitay reveals in her documentary that her biological father is Brazilian-Italian singer Nelson Sardelli, a secret she kept for 30 years to honor her family.
- In her 2025 HBO documentary My Mom Jayne, Mariska Hargitay disclosed that her birth father is Nelson Sardelli, an Italian singer, rather than Mickey Hargitay, the man who raised her.
- This revelation follows decades of secrecy after Jayne Mansfield, Mariska's mother, died in a car accident in New Orleans on June 28, 1967, when Mariska was three years old.
- The film explores Jayne Mansfield’s complicated life, including her affair with Sardelli during her separation from Mickey Hargitay, who accepted Mariska as his own child.
- Mariska expressed that the death of her mother left an indescribable emptiness within her, and Sardelli conveyed his confidence in her to share her personal journey in her own way.
- The documentary's timely release lets Mariska confront family secrets on her own terms and suggests that revealing the truth has helped her and her family find freedom and healing.
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Mariska Hargitay is getting candid about family secret she’s been hiding. The 61-year-old actress and daughter of the late Jayne Mansfield was a guest on the June 25 episode of Alex Cooper‘s podcast, Call Her Daddy. While on the podcast, Mariska opened up about a family secret she had been hiding for years and finally decided to share with the public with the release of her documentary, My Mom Jayne. Keep reading to find out more… In the documen…
All About Mariska Hargitay's Biological Dad Nelson Sardelli & How She Learned the Truth About His Identity
Mariska Hargitay disclosed the truth about her biological father, Nelson Sardelli, for the first time in her documentary, My Mom Jayne. In Mariska’s documentary about her late-mother, Hollywood icon Jayne Mansfield, she revealed for the first time that her birth father was the Brazilian-Italian singer and not Mickey Hargitay as she always thought growing up. The Law & Order: SVU star was born during Mickey’s tumultuous marriage to the former…
In ‘My Mom Jayne,’ Mariska Hargitay grapples with a secret and her mother’s choices
That Mariska Hargitay is the daughter of Jayne Mansfield is one of those things everyone who knows anything about either of them seems to know — in some cases maybe the only thing. Even Hargitay — who was only 3 years old when, in 1967, her mother died in a road accident, which she and two brothers survived — had much to learn about her, and she spent most of her life not learning it. Now, in her inquisitive 60s, she has put that belated search …
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