No one in their right mind would wish for Nastassja Kinski's childhood. She was eight when her father, the infamously terrifying German actor Klaus Kinski, walked out, leaving her mother, Ruth Brigitte Tocki, essentially in nouveau poor circumstances. Klaus had already been repeatedly abusing Nastassja's older half-sister, Pola, since the age of five. In Nastassja's case, Klaus stopped short of raping her, but she had often been embraced "in a sexual manner" at around the same age.