Did Bob Dylan Follow Suze Rotolo to Italy? ‘A Complete Unknown’s’ Local Release Prompts Reports That He Visited Perugia to Find Her

Jan 29, 2025 656

BY: Nick Vivarelli

The Italian release of James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” is prompting local media to claim that, unlike in the movie, Dylan traveled to Italy in 1962 in pursuit of Suze Rotolo — named Sylvie Russo in the film and played by Elle Fanning — who had left New York to study abroad.

In 1962, Rotolo left the Greenwich Village apartment where she had been living with Dylan and arrived with her mother in Perugia, where she attended the Italian city’s famed University for Foreigners. Incidentally, it’s the same college Amanda Knox attended in 2007.

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SOURCE: https://variety.com

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