1. Maurizio Costanzo was an Italian television host, journalist, screenwriter, and film director.
12 Facts About Maurizio Costanzo
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Maurizio Costanzo's most popular show, Bonta loro was a staple of RAI's programming but he was forced to resign after news broke that he was a member of the Propaganda Due masonic lodge.
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Maurizio Costanzo was the artistic director of Canale 5 until 2009.
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Maurizio Costanzo was the "communication-agent" of many Italian political leaders.
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Maurizio Costanzo was a professor at the Universita degli Studi Niccolo Cusano.
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On 14 May 1993, Maurizio Costanzo, who had expressed delight at the arrest of Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore Riina, was almost killed by a bomb as he drove down a Rome street; 23 people were injured.
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Maurizio Costanzo later married another journalist, Flaminia Morando, who left her husband Alberto Michelini for Costanzo.
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From 1983 to 1986 Maurizio Costanzo lived with the actress, voice actress, screenwriter and director Simona Izzo.
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On his 57th birthday, 28 August 1995, Maurizio Costanzo married Maria De Filippi, a television host and producer, who had been living with him since 1990.
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Maurizio Costanzo has a strong connection to the village of Ansedonia, in the province of Grosseto, where he had a residence for decades and spent his holidays there together with Maria de Filippi.
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Maurizio Costanzo died on 24 February 2023 at the private clinic Paideia of Rome at the age of 84.
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Maurizio Costanzo's funeral was officiated on 27 February 2023 in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Montesanto in Rome, after which he was buried in the Campo Verano cemetery.