Silvia Tortora died

Silvia Tortora died today in Rome at the age of 59, very few knew of her illness. Journalist for TV (he had started in Rai, and worked on Mixer, We are the story, Big) and for the printed media (in the period of the mythological Epoch, between 1988 and 1997), was the daughter of the journalist and well-known host of Portobello Enzo Tortora, who had always tried to rehabilitate due to the sad judicial error (he had been accused of a Camorra association and then acquitted).

In 2018, 30 years after his father’s death, Silvia stated: «From my point of view nothing has changed: these are 30 years of bitterness and disgust». Enzo passed away on May 18, 1998, also at the age of 59, for lung cancer.

Together with his sister Gaia (for a long time the face of Enrico Mentana’s Tg La7), he had always defended his father, including through books and films, such as Silvia face (Marsilio 2002) with his father’s letters from prison Enzo wrote her from prison e A decent man, in 1999 silver ribbon at the Taormina Festival. She was married to Philippe Leroy, 91, with whom she had two children, Michelle and Filippo.

In 2017 Silvia had been next to her husband Philippe, during the interview with Vanity Fair. He had said to Marina Cappa: «I am not afraid, not even of death. I’ve had a great life, I’ve done everything I wanted, I’m just worried about my wife and kids (with Silvia, daughter of Enzo Tortora, he had Philippe jr in 1992 and Michelle in 1997. He also has three children from previous marriages, ed). And then I should have died five times already, between wars and accidents: I’m lucky. Of course, I don’t have the same physical capacity as I was in my 30s ».