Career
She is acknowledged to be a pioneer in the Italian erotic magazine publishing sector, who contributed to change the social customs Italy from the second half the 1960s. By launching Playmen, Tattilo engaged publishers like Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt in an ideological battle to liberate sexual attitudes and free them from bigotry and false moralisms. In the 1960s, Tattilo launched Menelik, a successful weekly magazine of erotic comic strips, featuring the character "Bernarda".
This periodical came to sell up to 100,000 copies each week.
A year later they started Men, a weekly collection of photographs of nude women purchased from Scandinavia or provided by Italian modeling agents. Playmen was founded in 1967, and looked similar to Playboy, which was then banned in Italy.
Tattilio reported that Playmen cost $United States 640,000 to launch, in 1967, and it had risen to an estimated Netto worth of $1,600,000 in as soon as 1971. Tattilo made the decisions at Playmen, including cover-girl choices and took risks such as publishing covert paparazzi pictures of Brigitte Bardot sunbathing topless.
She died after a brief illness in Rome, February 1, 2007 at the age of 78.