Lili Massaferro

[4] Under the pseudonym Lili Gacel,[5] she was the protagonist of advertisements for Arizona cigarettes, and acted in several films in the late 1950s (such as The House of the Angel, based on a novel by Beatriz Guido,[6] who was one of her acquaintances at the time).

Among her circle of male friends and "suitors" were Bobby Aizemberg, Hector Álvarez Murena, Fernando Birri, Adolfo Bioy Casares,[8] Jorge Luis Borges,[7] Miguel Brascó, Carlos Burone [es], Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, and Oski.

[15] After the paramilitary organization Triple A appeared in 1975, Massaferro was told by Guillermo Julio Vailati a peronist lawyer and Dean of the Buenos Aires Law University at the time and friend of her second husband Marcelo de Laferrere that she had to leave the country as she was in great danger, she traveled to Rome – now in a partnership with Juan Gelman – and went to work with Argentina's Delia Ana Fanego on a committee to reveal Triple A's actions and the repression in Argentina in the Roman newspapers.

[16] When the National Reorganization Process began on 24 March 1976, Lili Massaferro continued to fight against the bloody dictatorship of Videla from her position as a member of the women's branch of the MPM.

In 1977 she participated in the publication of the book Argentina: Proceso al Genocidio, together with Eduardo Luis Duhalde, Rodolfo Mattarollo [es], and Gustavo Roca.

[17] She toured Europe from top to bottom several times, visiting Amsterdam, Stockholm, Geneva, London, Madrid, Paris, and Rome.

She reconciled with her second husband Marcelo Lafferrere, and bought a farm in Marcos Paz – 50 km from the center of Buenos Aires – where she received her grandchildren and cared for animals and plants.

[1] For many years she suffered from badly healed hepatitis (which developed into cirrhosis), and from persistent thrombophlebitis that left her hospitalized at the end of her life.