Journalist for TV and print media, Silvia Tortora (born in Rome on November 14, 1962) died last night in a Roman clinic at the age of 59. Daughter of the well-known journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora and his second wife Miranda Fantacci, she worked with Giovanni Minoli on Mixer and then on “La storia siamo noi”, making a series of great interviews. And since 2004, again with Minoli, at ‘We are history’ program. For this program he made various episodes concerning Mia Martini, Renato Vallanzasca, The Earthquake in San Giuliano di Puglia, Francesco Totti, Vendute (story of baby prostitutes), Once upon a time Portobello, Corrado (the great inventor of the Corrida), La first victim (story of Luigi Calabresi), and We have only Benigni (story of the Tuscan comedian)
From June 2009 he hosted Big together with Annalisa Bruchi, broadcast on Rai 3. He worked at the weekly Epoca from 1988 to 1997. In 1999 he won the silver ribbon at the Taormina Festival as “best cinematographic subject” with the Maurizio Zaccaro’s film, ‘A respectable man’. In 2002 she edited the book ‘Cara Silvia’, published by Marsilio, which collects the letters that her father Enzo wrote her from prison. In 2006, again with Marsilio, he published ‘Bambini bad’. She was married since 1990 to the French actor Philippe Leroy, with whom she had two children. Philippe and Michelle.