Italian film producer Carlo Ponti dies - Posted by Michael Fomkin

Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, husband of Sophia Loren, has died at the age of 94 in a hospital in Switzerland, his family said on Wednesday.
 
The producer of more than 150 films over a career that spanned 50 years had been in a Geneva hospital for about 10 days with pulmonary problems when he died, the family said in a statement.