Editing Nastassja Kinski (section)

==Early life==

Kinski was born in [[West Berlin]] as Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3m5SrXs42YEC&q=Nastassja+Aglaia+Nakszynski&pg=PA154 |title=The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia |isbn=9780810876514 |last1=Welsh |first1=James M. |last2=Phillips |first2=Gene D. |last3=Hill |first3=Rodney F. |date=27 August 2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press }}</ref> She is the daughter of German actor [[Klaus Kinski]]<ref>Davidson, John E. ''Deterritorializing the New German Cinema'', Regents of the University of Minnesota, 1999, p. 80</ref> and his second wife, actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki.<ref name="Welsh, James Michael page 154">Welsh, James Michael; Gene D. Phillips; Rodney Hill. ''The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia,'' Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press Inc., 2010, p. 154</ref> She is of partial Polish descent, for her grandfather Bruno Nakszynski was a [[Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions|Germanized ethnic Pole]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19911126/1319452/klaus-kinski-polish-born-actor-who-starred-in-werner-herzog-films |title=Obituaries - Klaus Kinski, Polish-Born Actor Who Starred in Werner Herzog Films - Seattle Times Newspaper }}</ref> Kinski has two half-siblings: [[Pola Kinski|Pola]] and [[Nikolai Kinski]]. Her parents divorced in 1968. After the age of 10, Kinski rarely saw her father. Her young mother struggled financially to support them;<ref name="guardian1999">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/weekend/story/0,3605,290196,00.html |title=Daddy's Girl |newspaper=The Guardian |date=3 July 1999 |access-date=18 April 2010 |location=London}}</ref> they eventually lived in a [[commune (intentional community)|commune]] in [[Munich]].

In a 1999 interview, Kinski denied that her father had [[child sexual abuse|molested]] her as a child, but said he had abused her "in other ways".<ref name="guardian1999" /> In 2013, when interviewed about the allegations of sexual abuse made by her half-sister [[Pola Kinski]],<ref name="Jackson">{{cite news |last=Jackson |first=Patrick |title=German actor Klaus Kinski 'abused his daughter Pola' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur971857 |work=[[BBC News Online]] |date=10 January 2013 |access-date=10 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="Roxborough">{{cite news |last=Roxborough |first=Scott |title=Klaus Kinski's Daughter Claims He Sexually Abused Her |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/klaus-kinski-daughter-sexual-abuse-410213 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=9 January 2013 |access-date=10 January 2013}}</ref> she confirmed that he attempted this with her, but did not succeed. She said, "He was no father. Ninety-nine percent of the time I was terrified of him. He was so unpredictable that the family lived in constant terror." When asked what she would say to him now, if she had the chance, she replied, "I would do anything to put him behind bars for life. I am glad he is no longer alive."<ref name="Biss">{{cite news |last=Biss |first=Malta |title=Jetzt spricht Nastassja |url=http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/klaus-kinski/jetzt-spricht-nastassja-kinski-ueber-ihren-vater-28071840.bild.html |newspaper=[[Bild]] |date=13 January 2013 |access-date=13 January 2013}}</ref>