EGI – “We have consoled people in tears, more astonished than us to know that you were no longer there. You leave us children an important legacy and your greatest teaching: humility”. So in a message read in church, the daughter of Maurice CostanzoCamilla, described this long hug to the conductor who disappeared in Rome last Friday.
Today in the Church of the Artists, the solemn funeral of the multifaceted TV personality took place, surrounded by many characters from the world of entertainment and beyond. The square was cordoned off from the early hours of the morning due to the very high flow of citizens who wanted to follow the funeral from Piazza del Popolo despite the moments of rain and where a giant screen was also set up for the occasion.
In church next to Maria De Filippi and to the couple’s adopted son Gabrielethe CEO of Mediaset was sitting Pier Silvio Berlusconi who on leaving the church said that with Costanzo’s disappearance “we have lost everything”.
In church in addition to politicians: the minister of Gennaro Sangiuliano culturethe undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbithe mayor of Rome Robert Gualtieri and the former mayor John Alemannoalso many characters from the show such as Luxury, Lele Mora, the Countess Marisela Federici, Emanuele Filiberto, Gianni Sperti, Tina Cipollati, Simona Izzo, Massimo Lopez, Aurelio De Laurentiis, John Floris, Enzo Paolo Turchi and the wife, Mara Venier, Milly Carlucci, Paul Bonolis with his wife Sonia Bruganelli, Pino I teach, Christian De Sica, Charles Conti, Gerry Scotti, Henry Mentana, Vittorio Sgarbi, Fiorella Mannoia, Carlo Fuortes, Valeria Marini, Afef, Luciana Litizzetto, Anna Pettinelli, Valerio Scanu, Henry Brignano, Antonio Giuliani, Daniel Silvestriand many others.
The many present in the square armed with smartphones they took the opportunity to take one home with them photos of famous TV faces. At the end of the function and after the prayers of the artists were read, the coffin came out accompanied by the notes of the theme song of the Maurizio Costanzo Show and a long and moved applause from the square.
The wagon then headed towards the Verano cemetery in Romenot before passing for the last time in front of the Parioli Theater, the “house” of Costanzo.