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Sophia Loren recovering from surgery after fall led to fractured leg, broken bones
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Date:2025-04-13 08:17:51
ROME — Film legend Sophia Loren is recovering from successful surgery for a leg fracture after she fell in her Switzerland home, an agent for the 89-year-old Italian actor said Monday.
Agent Andrea Giusti said in an email that Loren fell in a bathroom on Sunday and the surgery was performed later that day. The operation “went very well and now we only need to wait,” Giusti said.
The actress broke both her hip and a thigh bone, the agent said.
It wasn’t immediately clear when Loren would be discharged from the hospital.
Loren's restaurant Instagram page also shared more about her recent health scare, noting that the actress "will now have to observe a short period of recovery and follow a road to rehabilitation."
"The whole team at Sophia Loren Restaurant takes this opportunity to wish her a speedy recovery," the post concluded.
Loren has lived in a Swiss villa near Lake Geneva for decades. Earlier this month, she appeared, looking radiant, with Italian designer Giorgio Armani in Venice at a fashion show held on the sidelines of the city’s annual film festival.
She celebrated her 89th birthday last week. She was scheduled to appear at a restaurant that bears her name in Bari, a city in southern Italy, but her fall forced a cancellation of the event. According to her agent, Loren gave the restaurant the right to use her name and image.
The film legend is best known for her Oscar-winning role in the 1961 Italian film "Two Women" and for starring in movies "A Special Day," "Marriage Italian Style," "Grumpier Old Men" and "Arabesque."
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In 2020, she returned to acting after a decade-long hiatus for the film "The Life Ahead."
Director Edoardo Ponti, Loren's son with producer Carlo Ponti, told USA TODAY at the time that the Italian actress jumped at the chance to portray the spirited Madame Rosa, a Holocaust survivor who scrapes together a living raising the children of fellow sex workers.
"She was waiting for a role that inspired her, challenged her and allowed her to bring out her most authentic self," Ponti said.
Contributing: Naledi Ushe, Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY
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