Background
Piero Marrazzo is the son of Giuseppe Marrazzo (a field journalist noted for his investigations on mafia) and Italian-American Luigia Spina.
Piero Marrazzo is the son of Giuseppe Marrazzo (a field journalist noted for his investigations on mafia) and Italian-American Luigia Spina.
He served as the President of Lazio, one of the twenty regions of Italy, from 2005 to 2009. He went on to become a prominent television journalist, working for twenty years for Radiotelevisione Italiana, on programmes such as TG2 and TG3, heading the Tuscany journalistic department of Radiotelevisione Italiana, working with Giovanni Minoli (on programmes such as "Cronaca in Diretta", "Drugstories", and "Format"), and finally becoming the anchorman for eight consecutive years of "Mi Manda Rai Tre", for which he is most remembered. He suspended himself from his role on Saturday 24 October 2009, after 4 carabinieri officers allegedly tried to blackmail him with video footage, purporting to reveal him in a bedroom with a transsexual prostitute, where a limited quantity of cocaine was also present.
Marrazzo admitted the meeting and said that the move paved the way for his resignation.
Media related to Piero Marrazzo at Wikimedia Commons.
He was a political activist during his youth, leading towards reformist socialism, and obtained a degree in jurisprudence.