Farewell to Silvia Tortora, journalist for TV and print media and daughter of the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora.
Born in Rome on November 14, 1962, Silvia died last night in a Roman clinic at the age of 59. He worked with Giovanni Minoli on “Mixer” and then on “La storia siamo noi”, making a series of great interviews.
After collaborating with the weekly "Epoca", she has also published several books including "Cara Silvia" (Marsilio, 2002) which collects the letters that her father Enzo wrote her from prison.
Since 2009 he has conducted "Big" with Annalisa Bruchi.
She married the French actor Philippe Leroy, with whom she had two children, Philippe and Michelle.
Daughter of Enzo Tortora and his second wife Miranda Fantacci, together with her younger sister, Gaia, Silvia has always been at the forefront in defending her father's reasons during the trial, which saw him convicted of a Camorra association and then acquitted, but even after death. Hers is the cinematographic subject of the film “A respectable man”, by Maurizio Zaccaro, dedicated to the figure of the journalist and presenter, which in 1999 earned her the silver ribbon at the Taormina Festival.
A story, that of the father, lived with pain and great bitterness. "From my point, nothing has changed: they are 30 years of bitterness and disgust - said Silvia on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the death of her father -. I was expecting a reform of the judicial system, but it hasn't happened. infinite. Indeed in 30 years there has been a numerical explosion ".
(Unioneonline / vl)
