Paola Fallaci, after the death of her sister Oriana, had launched a legal battle for her will against her own son, Edoardo
Paola Fallaci, the youngest of the three sisters, journalists and writers, died at the age of 83. The eldest daughter of Edoardo Fallaci and Tosca Cantini was Oriana (1929-2006), followed by Neera (1932-1984); Paola was born in 1938 and had collaborated with Weather e Today, however, always living in the bulky shadow of Oriana, the most famous sister.
Except for a moment of stardom as a guest on the TV show Sunday in, Paola has always stayed away from the limelight, until, after Oriana’s death, he had hired a long one legal battle for family inheritance who had also opposed her to one of her two sons, Edoardo Perazzi, appointed by his famous aunt as his executor.
She has been ill for a long time, Paola Fallaci had retired to live in the country house in Casole, on the hills of Greve in Chianti (Florence), and died in the utmost secrecy. It was the son Antonio Perazzi to announce the disappearance with a post on Facebook dated December 6: “Last night my mother Paola Fallaci, journalist, feminist, mother died. To be close to her we spent two incredible years close to her, among the extraordinary nature of Piuca, endless memories and big projects.
Mom was a weird person, radical, very sentimental: we genuinely loved each other. With her, every root with my family of origin melts and the surname Fallaci is lost even if I, Benedetta and all our children know well all the value of my family and we will keep its history with pride and gratitude.
Mom: do you remember when I was a child and you woke me up in the middle of the night to go and see the shooting stars, hugging each other, on the Casole staircase? I still have the memory of the affectionate scent of jasmine. Goodnight mom: we meet again in the garden“.
The Florentine lawyer Francesco Brizzi, who had assisted her in her judicial disputes, consulted bytime.news, expressed “great sorrow” for the disappearance of Paola Fallaci, stressing that he was not aware of the death.
A love-hate relationship between Paola and Oriana marked long stretches of their family life, which resulted in a legal battle over the author’s will Letter to an unborn child e Insciallah which he had designated as universal heir the favorite nephew, Edoardo, excluding his sister and the other nephew Antonio.
In 2007 Paola Fallaci announced her opposition to the posthumous publication of Oriana’s unfinished novel, A hat full of cherries (Rizzoli, 2008), the story of the author’s family between 1773 and 1889, decided instead by Edoardo, who since then has even defined “ex son“and breaking off any kind of relationship with him. In 2008 Paola argued that Oriana had died “with euthanasia”, arousing controversy and denials.
In 2011 Paola Fallaci presented with her son Antonio a exposed to the Public Prosecutor of Florence challenging Oriana’s will, claiming that there would be one at the bottom fake signature. After a battle of appraisals and counter-appraisals that lasted four years, in 2015 the judge of the Court of Florence, Angelo Antonio Pezzuti, ordered the clarification of the investigation relating to the will of Oriana Fallaci confirming Edward the only heir of his aunt.