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The last farewell to Pinky: the farewell has begun in the Legislature of Buenos Aires

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The remains of Lidia Satragno, popularly known as Little fingerare veiled today Saturday in the Legislature of the city of Buenos Aires.

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The vigil began at 12 and will last until 9 to greet the journalist, presenter and former MP for the province of Buenos Aires.

The entrance for the public is through the access located in Avenida Julio Argentino Roca 575.

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a successful career

Pinky was a journalist, actress, model, TV presenter and also a politician: she was a candidate for mayor of the La Matanza party in 1999 for Alianza, and in 2007 she was elected national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires for Unión PRO.

He was the protagonist of a historic event that represented a milestone in his career on May 1, 1980, when he was responsible for the broadcast in which color was inaugurated on Argentine television on the rebranded state-owned channel Argentina Televisora ​​Color (ATC).

His impeccable voice, elegance, excellent vocabulary and handling of the craft have allowed him to dominate the cameras like very few. At times, that same personality has tried to avoid his pains (physical and spiritual). She was able to overcome the cruelty of cancer in the 80s, she was rarely seen in a media scandal.

Lately they have seen her dejected, due to her poor health. Before her was thrombosis and COPD, the product of many years of cigarette smoking, which forced her to confine herself to her iconic apartment on República Arabe Syria street.

Another physical relapse forced her to stay in an institution for a period, where she found herself, after more than thirty years, with her old TV presenter partner, “Cacho” Fontana.

“I suffered from stability problems, I had crashed several times. It was Cacho who came looking for me together with the owner of the clinic. Maybe I would have died if they hadn’t helped me, ”he thanked.

Her love with Raúl Lavié

For years, they have been one of the most established and loved couples in the artistic world. She, the star TV host; him, the tango singer and actor loved by the public. This was the link between Pinky and Raúl Lavié.

They were married for almost a decade, between 1965 and 1974 and They had two sons: Leonardo and Gastón. The eldest, who together with his brother had formed the musical group El Signo, died in 2019, at the age of 54. Despite the distance after their divorce, Pinky and Lavié have maintained a cordial bond and a fluid dialogue, supported by their children.

The edges have rounded off over time, the former couple has met publicly more than once in a television studio, almost always in programs hosted by Pinky (and with her children as producers), to remember the good times, the same ones that many of the his audience shared with a certain nostalgia.

His death

The sad news broke at 1pm on Thursday and shook the country. The beloved figure of radio and television media had cancer several years ago and lived in her house opposite the Botanical, where her son Gastón found her lifeless this Thursday at noon. She was 87 years old.

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Source: Clarin

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