“He took advantage of Gina Lollobrigida to take possession of her assets.” Andrea Piazzolla sentenced to three years in prison for… Repubblica

He took advantage of “the weakening of the correct perception of reality” and the state of “vulnerability” that had existed for years Gina Lollobrigida influenceable. Everything to take possession of the assets of the actress who died on January 16, 2023. For this reason Andrea Piazzolla, the former employee of “Bersagliera”, was sentenced to three years in prison and to pay compensation to the civil parties. Until the trial in civil court, he has to pay out around half a million euros to his heirs. The villa on the Appia Antica was released from confiscation in favor of the Diva’s heirs.

According to the plaintiff’s lawyers Alexander And Michele Gentiloni SilverjThe defendant is said to have stolen over ten million euros. Deputy prosecutor Eleonora Fini, who had asked for a prison sentence of seven and a half years, assumed that Piazzolla had taken possession of around 350 of the actress’s assets over the years, which were often put up for sale by various auction houses.

Gina Lollobrigida had always defended Piazzolla

However, Lollobrigida had always defended her former factotum by taking action against her son Milko Skovic and his nephew Dimitri, or against those who initiated the various proceedings by contacting the public prosecutor’s office. “He’s like a son to me, he’s by my side like a son, he’s helped me move forward. His daughter Gina is named like me, she is a tigress. Andrea has never made mistakes. He’s a good man and because he helps me he gets into terrible trouble. Life is mine and I decide what to do with it. Giving gifts to Andrea and his family is something that concerns me,” said the actress.

Andrea Piazzolla: “I am the only one who took care of her”

“I was the only one who cared for Gina Lollobrigida with love and I continue to do so. “I have never seen her son, her nephew or her alleged husband in Subiaco (where the actress is buried),” Piazzolla told the court at the end of the hearing this morning. It was the judges who called for an examination of the woman’s mental state.

The report noted Gina Lollobrigida’s psychological fragility

In 2017, the experts were appointed by the investigating judge Maria Paola Tomaselli During the evidence, they had explained that the woman’s mental health was appropriate for her age, but that she could have been deceived in certain situations or relationships. In practice, excluding a situation of “mental illness resulting from psychiatric pathologies”, the experts had presented in black and white “a weakening of the correct perception of reality” and a state of “vulnerability” that makes “the work of suggestion by others” more difficult possible ” .

Thanks to this pathology, Piazzolla, the prosecutor claims, impoverished the actress’ assets. And he also convinced Gina Lollobrigida to appoint him director of several of her companies and to sell some apartments. Piazzolla has now been convicted for this. In the meantime, he also has to face further criminal proceedings based on this main idea.

Milko Skofic: “I regret the time I lost without my mother”

The lawyers of the civil party, Gentiloni Silverj, are satisfied: “After many years of work at the Court of Rome, he has said a fair word about what Gina Lollobrigida and her family went through in the last years of her life,” they said he said when leaving the courtroom. “It’s still a bitter thing. This ruling brings things into balance, but this shouldn’t have happened. It is a consideration from a human perspective,” said Milko Skofic, adding: “A regret? The time I lost to the process that prevented me from being as close to my mother as I would have liked, and also the years I lost with her.”