she is dead Lucy Zagaria, wife of Lino Banfi and mother of actress Rosanna, who attended Dancing with the Stars this year. The woman had been suffering from Alzheimer’s for some time. The actress announced this with a post on Instagram: “Have a nice trip”. She was 85 years old and her name as a girl was Lagrasta when she married Zagaria (her husband’s real name Pasquale, aka Lino Banfi).
The funeral mass for the death of Lucy Lagrasta it will be celebrated tomorrow, Thursday, February 23, at 12 noon by Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Legal Texts, together with Don Sergio Mercanzin, Founder of Ecumenical Russia, in the parish of Sant’Ippolito in Rome. Both are longtime friends of Banfi.
The couple have been married for more than 60 years and have two children, actress Rosanna and Walter, director and producer. In the post on Instagram, the daughter posted a photo of her mother as a carefree young woman, holding an ice cream and captioned it: “Hello mommy, now you’re like this again. Bon Voyage”. Signora Banfi was ill for a long time and her husband was always close to her. Health has been one of the actor’s top concerns in recent years with his daughter Rosanna, who had breast cancer from which she recovered and went on to become an advocate for the fight against cancer and his wife’s Alzheimer’s disease. Precisely for this reason, during the Covid, Lino Banfi had become the testimonial of the vaccine, telling us: “I am getting vaccinated because I want to make the three generations together: me, my son who is 50 and my nephew who is 18 , I would be happy Yes, my wife and I have been vaccinated against flu for twenty years, which means that the body has more antibodies every year, and this year we also had the vaccination against pneumonia because the bad thing before Covid is pneumonia, huh gastritis is an ulcer”.
Lino Banfi and his wife Lucia, a great love that lasted over 60 years: “She is my rock”
by Silvia Fumarola February 22, 2023
A symbiotic and deep relationship between Banfi and his wife Lucia, who was a real pillar in Banfi’s very dense career. The actor said in a recent interview with Repubblica: “Sixty years together, a lifetime. He encouraged me at the beginning, he supported me.”