TV presenter, journalist, author, but also a man with a lively love life. Maurizio Costanzo He wasn't just the public figure we all know. And thereHis private life is at least as remarkable as his professional one. Starting with the many weddings.
The star of the small screen actually married well four times. Today we all remember him as Maria De Filippi's husbandbut before her the host had also sworn eternal love to her Lori Sammartino, Flaminia Morandi and Marta Flavi.
Maurizio Costanzo has died
The journalist and television presenter died at the age of 84. He wrote the history of Italian radio and television with innovative programs that have become cult
It was 1963 when Costanzo became a young man the husband of photojournalist Lori Sammartino. Even then, the hostess was someone who had no regard for intrigue or prejudice: in fact, she was fourteen years older than him. But the age difference doesn't stop him from leading her to the altar. However, the marriage doesn't last long In 1973 he tried again and married the journalist Flaminia Morandi. She, who files for a divorce for him from her first husband Alberto Michelini, makes him a father. In fact, they are born of their love Maurizio Costanzo's two children: Camilla, born in 1973, and Saverio, born two years later. But this time too it is not forever. It seems that it was his work, his career and his success that separated them.
The conductor lives in the late 70s a love story with Simona Izzo. A flirtation that lasted several years: the two even moved in together in the 1980s, but never married. However, the TV presenter brings Maurizio Costanzo back to the altar Martha Flavi. The two married in 1989, but the idyll did not last long and in 1995 there was a third divorce.
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However, Costanzo does not lose hope. Give love another chance. But with one awareness: “After three marriages, either the fourth is good or you quit» he said in an interview with the weekly magazine Chi. And in fact the fourth woman will be the right one, the one who accompanied him until his death. In fact, he married in 1995 Maria De Filippi and the life of the couple we all know begins. The two adopted a son, Gabriele. And they never hid the feeling that united them: he was fascinated by her intelligence; them through his goodness.