The Rome Prosecutor's Office has demanded a sentence of 7 and a half years in prison for Andrea Piazzola, the assistant of actress Gina Lollobrigida, accusing her of manipulating her and plundering her assets. Gina, one of the most famous actresses of Italian cinema, died in Rome on January 16 at the age of 96.
Prosecutor Eleonora Fini accuses Piazzola of the crime of "manipulation of an incapable person" to plunder the diva between the years 2013 and 2018, taking advantage of her "state of fragility" in her old age, according to what the Italian media has reported.
Eleonora Fini considers that Gina Lollobrigida, in the last years of her life, was "suggestible, kept in isolation and in a state of vulnerability."
In this last stage of life, the Italian diva was assisted for years by the young Piazzola in his villa on the Appia Antica in Rome and, in fact, upon his death, he left him half of his inheritance.
The other half of her will, with her Roman mansion, jewelry, works of art and archaeological remains, Gina Lollobrigida left to her only son, Andrea Milko, born in 1957 when the actress was married to the Slovenian doctor Milko Skofic, whom She divorced in 1971.
On July 9, 2020, Judge Emanuela Attura announced that the trial against Andrea Piazzola would be held following a complaint from the actress's relatives, specifically her son Andrea, her grandson, Dimitri Solfic, 29 years old, and her ex-husband, Barcelona businessman Javier Rigau, 62 years old.
The crime attributed to him punishes anyone who "provides themselves or others with a benefit by abusing the needs, passions or inexperience of a minor or abuses the state of illness or mental deficiency of a person" with a prison term of between 2 and 6 years. .
Gina Lollobrigida's three relatives feared that Piazzola would squander the actress's fortune and in May 2020 they managed to get a judge to appoint an administrator of her estate after some belongings that had belonged to the actress were put up for auction.
