Javier Rigau: “Now I am the widower of Gina Lollobrigida”

The City Hall of Rome will host this Thursday the funeral for Gina Lollobrigida, who will be buried later in Subiaco, her hometown, a town about 50 kilometers from the Italian capital.

In recent years, she lived almost shut up in her house on Via Appia, kidnapped by his assistant Andrew Piazzola, the man who separated her from her son and grandson, garden neighbors of the actress. Pitch was denounced by the family. Gina’s only son sued this subject and her girlfriend, upon learning that they had sold the jewelry, furniture and many of the assets of the star’s great fortune, deceiving her and separating her from everyone.

Precisely, this Friday Piazzola must appear in court to defend himself against some of the multiple accusations for the abuses committed with the assets and the will of the diva who died on the 16th at the age of 95.

Gina’s admission to the Pio XI clinic in Rome last week revealed the pitiful state of the protagonist of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: she was malnourished, dehydrated, with stomach ulcers and in a painful state of neglect. Her assistant left her admitted and she did not appear at the hospital again.

However, Milko Scofic Junior, the only child the artist had had, with Dr. Scofic, her first husband, was able to reunite with her mother in her last hours and apparently in an atmosphere of affection. During her visit, she was also accompanied by the Catalan businessman Javier Rigau, with whom De Gina’s son has an excellent relationship. In fact, it was Milko who asked Rigau to go to Rome, given the seriousness of his mother.

This second husband of Gina, who will be in the front row at her funeral, according to what we learned, married her in 2010, in a strange wedding in Barcelona, ​​by proxy. The bride was in Italy and her boyfriend was in Italy with a friend acting as his wife. They were married under a separate property regime. Finally, the wedding was denounced by the actress, assuring that she had been deceived.

Gina obtained a dispensation from this marriage from the Vatican, which is equivalent to a canonical divorce, although, according to Javier Rigau, they are still married. “I, civilly speaking, am still the husband, now I am the widower of Gina Lollobrigida. In fact, his son asked me never to divorce,” he assures Informalia.

Inheritance for his son Milko?

Much remains to be unraveled in this sad end to a character who was so great and brilliant. His son still cannot reside in his mother’s house, since she, advised by her assistant, prevented him from entering and also forbade her grandson to continue visiting her, something the young man did often anyway, because they were neighbors. And it remains to be seen what Milko could inherit, if he has anything left of the large estate that his mother had.

Anyone who knew the residence and has entered the Via Appia mansion these days speaks of a smelly, dilapidated house, where many of its owner’s works of art and antiques are missing. A regrettable end for one of the great Italian stars of all time.