[2] The store was frequented by influential women of high society and Ripa di Meana became involved with leading political, diplomatic, artistic and media figures.

[7] In 2009 Ripa di Meana participated in a reality TV show, The Farm, and played herself in an episode of the television series I Cesaroni.

[10] From the 1990s she participated in various campaigns against the killing of seals, the use of fur and skin in fashion, bullfights in Spain and French nuclear experiments on Moruroa atoll.

[5] She controversially posed naked for an IFAW anti-fur campaign, showing pubic hair with the caption "The only fur that I'm not ashamed to wear'.

Ripa di Meana frequently spoke publicly about the impact of the disease and her treatment and urged others to have themselves screened in order to identify cancer early.

[1][13] Although she had considered assisted suicide in Switzerland, Ripa di Meana chose to receive deep palliative sedation and discussed this choice in a videotaped announcement which was broadcast by TG5 before her death.