The whole truth. That’s what Andrew Piazzolla he told Gente magazine, which dedicated the cover of its newsstand issue to him for his closeness to the deceased for over ten years Gina Lollobrigida. Everything and the opposite of everything has been said about their relationship, but only he, the diva’s personal assistant, and Lollo know what connected them. appreciation and trust. A mutual affection that has often translated into concrete facts. “Gina wanted to give me gifts and she did, that’s true. We’re talking a Ferrari, a Ducati bike and a Ford,” admitted Andrea Piazzolla, who it is now heritage a fortune that Lollobrigida had left him.
Ferraris, motorcycles and bank transfers worth thousands of euros
From 2009 until last January – when Gina Lollobrigida died – Andrea Piazzolla was Gina Lollobrigida’s factotum. Always at his side in important moments and in private moments when the family was not around. He was like a family member, almost a son to take care of Gifts also expensive. Piazzolla himself admitted it in the long interview with Gente. “I resold the Ferrari and the Ford from memory for 225,000 and 90,000 euros respectively,” said Piazzolla and continues: “In addition, there was a transfer from Gina’s account to my parents for 271,000 euros to settle the mortgage on the house. Overall we are talking about six hundred thousand euros“.
“His son? He was cold with her”
In the long conversation with the magazine, Andrea Piazzolla also spoke about Gina Lollobrigida’s son. Andrea Milko Skofic, born of the diva’s marriage to the Slovenian doctor Milko Skofic. After the divorce in 1071, the son decided to go and live with his father in the United States, and the relationship with Gina never healed. Piazzolla said of him: “How was he? Lollo’s assistant has never seen him present in the diva’s life, a character absent It is far away.
threats and intimidation
Andrea Piazzolla then told about some disturbing episodes Occurred during the years of his work alongside Lollobrigida, the first of which took place in 2017. When Lollo’s assistant returned to the villa late in the evening, he’d found the gate of the property open, and after getting out of the car to check, he’d noticed something odd: “I saw a person about forty yards away, a flame, and heard three shots. A real intimidation that continued the next day when his father received an anonymous call. “The threats they were addressed to me,” said Piazzolla, referring to having reported: “They traced back to the author of the phone calls, an Algerian living in Naples. But no one ever asked him who told him to make those calls.” However, there are other disturbing episodes like this in Piazzolla’s story cuts on the tires of the car, photos of him in places he visited. All facts were dropped after the complaint filed in 2019.