Vittorio Cecchi Gori

Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori in 1989
Member of the Senate
In office
15 April 1994 – 29 May 2001
ConstituencyTuscany
Personal details
Born (1942-04-27) 27 April 1942
Florence, Italy
PartyItalian People's Party
Spouse
(m. 1983; div. 2000)
Children2
Occupation
  • Film producer
  • politician

Vittorio Cecchi Gori (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔːrjo ˈtʃekki ˈɡɔːri]; born 27 April 1942) is an Italian film producer and politician. He pleaded guilty to bankruptcy and was sentenced in February 2020 to eight years and five months of imprisonment.[1]

Born in Florence, Italy, he is the son of Mario Cecchi Gori. He has produced numerous films, most notably Il Postino: The Postman (1994), which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, and Life Is Beautiful (1997), which received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

He was also a senator from the Italian People's Party.

He owned the football club Fiorentina from 1993 to 2002, as well as the private television channel La7. On 3 June 2008, he was arrested in Rome for bankruptcy, and again on 25 July 2011.

References

  1. ^ "Vittorio Cecchi Gori piantonato in stato di detenzione in ospedale dopo la condanna a 8 anni" (in Italian). RAI News. 29 February 2020.