“Raffaella has left us. She went to a better world, where her humanity, her unmistakable laugh and her extraordinary talent will shine forever ”. With these words Sergio Iapino gives the sad announcement of the death of Raffaella Carrà, joining the pain of the adored nephews Federica and Matteo, of Barbara, Paola and Claudia Boncompagni, of lifelong friends and closest collaborators.
The great artist died at 16.20 on Monday 5 July, after an illness that for some time had attacked her body so tiny yet so full of overflowing energy. Her unstoppable force, which imposed her at the top of the world star system, an iron will that never abandoned her until the end, making sure that nothing of her profound suffering leaked out.
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The umpteenth gesture of love towards her audience and towards those who shared her affection, so that her personal ordeal would not disturb the bright memory of her. A woman out of the ordinary yet endowed with unsettling simplicity, she had no children but children – she always said – she had thousands of them, like the 150 thousand made to adopt at a distance thanks to ‘Love’, the program that most of all had remained in her heart. The funeral will be defined shortly. In her latest dispositions, Raffaella asked for a simple unfinished wooden coffin and an urn to hold her ashes. In the saddest hour, always unique and inimitable, like her overwhelming laugh.