Ljubica Otašević

Ljubica "Buba" Otašević (; born August 2, 1933 – April 12, 1998) was a Yugoslav and Serbian actress, body double, and basketball player.

Early life Born in the village of Ljutovnica near Gornji Milanovac to a Royal Yugoslav Air Force officer father Božidar Otašević and mother Olga, young Ljubica grew up in Belgrade with a younger brother Duda. In the meantime, her mother Olga had left the family so that young Ljubica and her brother were raised by their grandmother Danica in an apartment on Deligradska Street in Belgrade. The Yugoslav team made the final round where it lost four of its five games, ending the competition in fifth place.

Two years later, she represented Yugoslavia again at the 1956 European Women's Basketball Championship in Czechoslovakia. This time, Yugoslavia failed to make it out of their preliminary round-robin group and had to go to the classification round, eventually finishing the competition in ninth place. Otašević appeared in 7 games, scoring a total of 35 points (5.0ppg).

In 1957, the twenty-four-year-old student left FPR Yugoslavia for Italy, ostensibly to study Italian as part of university exchange. Due to Loren's absence from the set in the first days of shooting, Otašević reportedly appears in most of the frames where the character has her back to the camera or her face is not shown close-up.

In the early 1960s, she caught the eye of flamboyant baron Enrico "Ricky" di Portanova, the American-born, Italian-raised son of an Italian baron, Paolo di Portanova, and American mother Lillie Cullen, the daughter of oil tycoon Hugh Roy Cullen. The young couple initially lived in Rome where di Portanova ran a jewelry business. After getting married, the couple moved to Houston, Texas in order for di Portanova to try and collect his share of his late maternal grandfather's oil inheritance, which he eventually succeeded in doing. By the mid-to-late 1960s, Otašević's marriage to di Portanova was on the rocks and the two officially divorced in 1972.

Following a divorce settlement in which she reportedly got USD1.5 million, Otašević divided her time between her property in Houston and a villa in Marbella, Spain.

In popular culture In the 2015 Serbian sports drama We Will Be the World Champions, Otašević is portrayed by Nina Janković.