Carlo Ponti

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posted by Mike T
Italy did not recognize divorce (his first marriage). In 1962, he was charged with bigami. Sophia Loren divorced him in Mexico to save him from this charge. They became French citizens, later and remarried on 9 Apr 1966.
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    Name Carlo Ponti
    (Carlo Fortunaro Pietro Ponti)
    Date of Birth December 111912
    Birthplace Magenta, Lombardy, Italy
    Star Sign Sagittarius
    Died January 102007 (Aged 95)
    Location of Death Geneva, Switzerland
    Cause of Death pulmonary complications
    Nationality Italian
    Occupation Film/TV Producer
    Celebrity Index Ca
    Claim to Fame was the Husband of Sophia Loren

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  • Founded the production company "Ponti-De Laurentiis" together with Dino De Laurentiis, which produced Totò a colori (1952), the first Italian movie in color.
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  • Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959
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  • After he had divorced from Giuliana Fiastri in Mexico, he married Sophia Loren in 1957. As the divorce was not legalized in Italy, he was accused of bigamy and his marriage to Loren was annulled in 1962. Thus, the couple and Ponti's first wife acquired French citizenship, so that he and Loren could marry again in 1966.
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  • Father (by 2nd wife Sophia Loren) of Carlo Ponti Jr.. Father (by 1st wife) of producer Alex Ponti and of lawyer Guendalina Ponti.
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  • Got to know his future wife Sofia Villone Scicolone at the "Miss Rome" competition and gave her the stage name Sophia Loren (1952).
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  • Father of Edoardo Ponti
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  • Earned a law degree from the University of Milan. Practiced law in Milan in the late 1930s.
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  • Studied law at the University of Milan.
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  • The controversy surrounding his first marriage to Sophia Loren, was that he was still legally married to his first wife Giuliana Fiastri at that time in the eyes of Cathoilc Italy, even though they had already divorced by 1957. In order to marry Loren he obtained a divorce in Mexico where they also got married by proxy, but this was not recognized back in Italy where Ponti was condemned and told he would be charged with bigamy should he returned. Thus Ponti and Loren lived in exile in the States for a while until matters could be resolved. In the end the solution was for all three: Ponti, Loren and his ex-wife Fiastri to adopt French citizenship so that he and Fiastri could be legally divorced, and he and Loren could be legally married.
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  • Is portrayed by Joseph Long in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004).
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