[1] In the early 1950s, she lived in Paris, Rome and on the French Riviera, experiences that inspired her book, Kärlek i Europa (Love in Europe), which detailed her various sexual adventures.

For a time, she was the mistress of the Mafiosi Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who had been deported from the United States back to his native Italy.

[4] The Mafiosi Luciano, who knew much about the Italian underworld told her that the travel agent was a white slaver and if she went to Buenos Aires, she would be forced to work in a brothel instead of the promised modeling job.

[5] Through Luciano Stenberg met his friend, the exiled King Farouk of Egypt, who was living in Italy and whose mistress she ultimately became.

[6] Luciano had grown up in New York, having left Sicily at the age of 9, and found Naples, where he lived, to be a rather "foreign" place, causing him to regard himself as being in exile from America.

[12] Stenberg lived in a Rome apartment with a gay American couple, which enraged the homophobic Farouk as he called her roommates "perverts" once he learned that the two men were more than just friends.

[23] Stenberg later wrote an autobiographical suit that deals with sex, drugs and art making, starting with Kärlek i Europa in 1981[24] and continuing with Apelsinmannen (1983), Spanska trappan (1987) and Alla vilda (2004).

[27] She worked at the radio interception at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs,[28] as a journalist at the magazine Arbetaren (The Worker), as an interpreter, fisherman and local politician for the Left Party.

[33] Stenberg died at her home in Smedsbolet, Gullspång Municipality, Västra Götaland County from hepatic cancer on 23 August 2014.