Maurizio Costanzo

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Maurizio Costanzo, Italian journalist and TV icon, dies in Rome at 84 (Wanted in Rome)

Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni led tributes to the celebrated journalist and television host Maurizio Costanzo who died in Rome on Friday, aged 84.

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Italian TV personality Maurizio Costanzo dead at 84 (Times of Malta)

Veteran journalist who survived a Mafia car bomb attack had been on the air since 1991.

Costanzo also lent his hand to screenwriting, penning 26 screenplays for film and television between 1968 and 2008. In 1993, he was targeted by a car bomb planted by the Cosa Nostra which went off in via Ruggero Fauro in Rome as Costanzo, accompanied by his wife and fellow TV personality Maria De Filippi, was being driven after the end of a Maurizio Costanzo show broadcast. A constant presence on Italian television for many years, the veteran journalist and talk show host was a mainstay on Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset network, elevating him to stardom through his self-titled discussion program The Maurizio Costanzo Show, on which he became known for his quick wit and incisive style of interview.

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TV talk-show host Maurizio Costanzo dies (ANSA)

Journalist, writer and pioneering TV talk show host Maurizio Costanzo has died at the age of 84, his press office said Friday. © ANSA.

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 24 - Journalist, writer and pioneering TV talk show host Maurizio Costanzo has died at the age of 84, his press office said Friday.

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Journalist Maurizio Costanzo dies, aged 84 - The Malta Independent (Malta Independent Online)

Italian journalist and TV presenter Maurizio Costanzo has died, Italian media report. He was 84 years old. Born in Rome in 1938, Costanzo anchored several ...

He was also the author of several books. He was 84 years old. He had married Maria de Filippi in 1995.

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