The Scary Incident That Forced Sophia Loren To Move To Switzerland

Publish date: 2024-05-09

"Sophia Loren was robbed of jewelry reported to be worth $700,000 early yesterday by four gunmen who forced their way into her suite in the Hampshire House on Central Park South," a New York Times article from 1970 reported, following a robbery targeting Sophia Loren and certain valuables in her possession. On October 11th of that year, the actress's personal residence was invaded by gunmen who demanded precious gems that they knew she was holding. "I was shaking." Loren shared with reporters. "They came into the bedroom, you know, while I was asleep."

It was in the early hours of the morning that the thieves handcuffed four hotel employees and made them give up the keys to Loren's room. They knocked on the actress's door pretending to be hotel maintenance workers and told Inez Bruscia (her personal secretary) that there was a gas leak when she answered the call. They forced their way in and struck Bruscia over the head. When they came face-to-face with Loren, who was rudely awakened, they told her to hand over "the big stuff." Fearing for her life and that of her son Carlo Ponti Jr. who was sleeping in the neighboring room, she gave up a handful of jewelry that was worth just under a million dollars in total. The crooks fled the scene, drove off in a car parked outside the hotel, and were never apprehended by police.

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