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1/13/07

Metro: Private funeral ceremony for producer Ponti

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Private funeral ceremony for producer Ponti

Carlo Ponti, the Italian producer who discovered a teenage Sophia Loren, launched her film career and later married her, has been buried in a private ceremony in his home town in northern Italy. Relatives and close friends attended a Mass at a church in Magenta, 20 miles west of Milan, where Ponti was born in 1912. He was buried after the ceremony in his family's tomb at a nearby cemetery. Ponti, 94, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Geneva, where he had been admitted to hospital about 10 days earlier because of pulmonary complications. Ponti and Loren had been living in Switzerland for years.

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