Career
In 1975 he took the degree in political science in Genoa and joined the ISPI school in Milan. In the same year he started to appreciate the Radical Party and its leader Marco Pannella. In 1977 he became a magician and named himself Otelma, that is the opposite of his middle name (later he would change it in divino Otelma), and began to join different television programs.
Divino Otelma says he believes in reincarnation and says that he is the incarnation of God and that he was in the past a priest from Atlantis, a woman pharaoh and one of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis.
In 1987 Belelli was convicted of taking advantage of a disabled person. He was also tried for defamation, tax noncompliance and false advertising.