Vittorio Cecchi Gori
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Vittorio Cecchi Gori | |
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 Vittorio Cecchi Gori in 1989 | |
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 15 April 1994 – 29 May 2001 | |
| Constituency | Tuscany |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 April 1942 Florence, Italy |
| Party | Italian People's Party |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
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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.
